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BCE Inc T.BCE

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BCE Inc. is a Canada-based communications company. The Company provides wireless and fiber networks. The Company operates through one segment: Bell Communication and Technology Services (Bell CTS). Bell CTS segment provides a range of communication products and services to consumers, businesses and government customers across Canada. Its wireless products and services include mobile data and voice plans and devices and are available nationally. Its wireline products and services comprise data (including Internet access, Internet protocol television (IPTV), cloud-based services and business solutions), voice, and other communication services and products, which are available to its residential, small and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises customers primarily in Ontario, Quebec, the Atlantic provinces and Manitoba. This segment includes its wholesale business, which buys and sells local telephone, long-distance, data, and other services from or to resellers and other carriers.


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Comment by Quintessential1on Jul 18, 2023 10:10am
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RE:AT&T Talk About Lead Cables

RE:AT&T Talk About Lead CablesMorningstar tends to agree.

"AT&T and Verizon: We Don’t Expect Major Liability Tied to Lead in Telecom Cable Sheathing Analyst Note Michael Hodel, CFA, Director, 14 Jul 2023 A series of articles in The Wall Street Journal concerning lead in cable sheathing dealt yet another blow to investor sentiment around telecom stocks. An analyst downgrade of AT&T citing potential legal liability, among other issues, further punished stocks across the industry Friday morning. While this situation warrants watching, we don’t expect the telecom industry will bear substantial legal liability. We believe AT&T and Verizon shares are very attractive at current prices. In more than two decades covering the telecom industry, we’ve never heard mention of an issue related to lead in cable sheathing. The WSJ cites a 2010 presentation to AT&T employees as proof that the firm has been aware of the issue, but that is not in dispute. Both the CDC and NIH websites house research conducted in the 1990s around complaints to OSHA from wire strippers that reported elevated blood lead levels, with steps to ensure worker safety. The EPA has also studied cable sheathing materials, including through a partnership with the University of Massachusetts’ Toxic Use Reduction Institute. Nothing suggests that telecom firms failed to follow proper procedures to protect employees when dealing with these cables, which were last deployed in the 1960s. We also suspect that if lead from legacy telecom cables were a major threat, a government agency would have addressed it by now

Lead was, of course, used in hundreds of products over the past century. Tulane University’s Lead’s Urban Legacy project lists dozens of major and minor sources, but does not mention cable sheathingAverage blood lead concentration has declined precipitously in the U.S. since the 1970s, primarily thanks to the elimination of lead in gasoline. The Tulane project cites past auto emissions as the source of heavy contamination along roadways, which we suspect pose a greater health risk and far more formidable clean-up challenges than old telecom cables."

Between this and the "amazon" scare it does seem to be having an effect though.

GLTA




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