BCE Sells BNS Common Shares.

MONTREAL--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 6, 1996--BCE INC.(TSE, ME, VSE, NYSE: BCE ) BCE Inc. announced today that it has completed the sale of its 10,000,000 common shares of The Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS).

The shares were sold to Scotia Capital Markets and RBC Dominion Securities Inc., and were traded on the Toronto and Montreal stock exchanges at $33.45 per share.

The Bank of Nova Scotia common shares were acquired by BCE in 1994 as part of its sale of Montreal Trustco Inc. to BNS.

BCE Is Canada's largest telecommunications company. Its common shares are listed on stock exchanges in Canada, the United States, Japan and Europe.

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