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| | Bloomberg.com: Canada |
 | | BCE's 2005 forecast implies profit, excluding some costs, of as much as C$2.18 ($1.78) a share. |
 | | While the dividend increase, to C$1.32 from C$1.20, is ``a net positive for income investors, we believe the increase is too small in terms of incremental yield to drive sustainable share price upside,'' Kona Shio, an analyst at Conscius Capital Partners in Montreal, wrote in a report. |
 | | BCE will expand the units that sell to business customers through acquisitions including Nexxlink Technologies Inc., which sells software, and some assets from 360networks Corp., which gave it a fiber-optic network for sending calls and data at high speeds in western Canada. |
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