BCE Inc. hopes to have completed the strategic review process announced on April 20 by the third quarter of 2007, the company noted in a news release. In the statement, released on April 29, the communications conglomerate notes that it wants an open and competitive process. "For that reason, our goal from the beginning has been to foster a competitive process by seeking to ensure that no one party is able to assemble a disproportionate share of available Canadian equity," Strategic Oversight Committee chair Donna Soble Kaufman said.

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