Bell Canada agrees to $48.5 billion takeover

In what is being called the largest Canadian acquisition of its kind, Bell Canada has agreed to be acquired by two private-equity firms, Providence Equity Partners and Madison Dearborn Partners, and The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board. The $48.5 billion deal must be approved by regulators and investors.

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