{"id":1045329,"date":"2026-10-28T07:28:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T01:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1045329"},"modified":"2026-10-28T07:34:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T02:04:51","slug":"canadas-bce-sells-minority-stake-in-new-tower-unit-to-la-caisse-for-1-75-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/28\/canadas-bce-sells-minority-stake-in-new-tower-unit-to-la-caisse-for-1-75-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s BCE sells minority stake in new tower unit to La Caisse for $1.75 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian telecom firm BCE said on Tuesday its subsidiary, Bell Canada, had agreed to sell a minority stake in the newly formed wireless tower infrastructure company to global investment group La Caisse for C$2.45 billion ($1.75 billion). <\/p>\n<p>The transaction values the tower company, to be called TowerCo, at approximately C$4.91 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Bell Canada will retain a 50.1% controlling equity interest in TowerCo, with La Caisse holding the remaining 49.9%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian telecom firm BCE said on Tuesday its subsidiary, Bell Canada, had agreed to sell a minority stake in the newly formed wireless tower infrastructure company to global investment group La Caisse for C$2.45 billion ($1.75 billion). The transaction values the tower company, to be called TowerCo, at approximately C$4.91 billion. Bell Canada will retain a 50.1% controlling equity interest in TowerCo, with La Caisse holding the remaining 49.9%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1045329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045335,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045329\/revisions\/1045335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}