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No BCE bid coming from Telus

VANCOUVER – Telus has decided not to try and buy Bell Canada after all. After less than a week of angst and speculation and polls and Telus CEO Darren Entwistle attempting to sell such a merger to the country as a "Canadian strategy" the company announced this morning that it has elected not to submit an offer to acquire BCE. "The inadequacies of BCE's bid process did not make it possible for Telus to submit an offer," says a company press release this morning. No word on whether or not Telus will now revert back to its prior stance on...