Telesat sale rumors "have no basis in fact"

OTTAWA – Bell Canada Enterprises told Cartt.ca Wednesday that recent media reports pondering the sale of Telesat by BCE are completely false and that it will take the company public before the end of the year. Newspaper reports throughout the summer (with another small spasm of them this week) have said rather than doing a Telesat IPO, as BCE announced in February, that it would sell to other suitors instead. A report this week said talks for such a sale had recently broken off."We are doing what we said we would do in February and several times since," a BCE...