BCE Signs MOU With Cisco to Collaborate on Sovereign AI Infrastructure for Canada

11:08 AM EDT, 09/29/2026 (MT Newswires) -- BCE (BCE.TO, BCE) on Tuesday said iit Cisco (CSCO) signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on a sovereign AI infrastructure offering for Canada. The companies will combine Bell's data centers and networks with Cisco's AI, security, observability, infrastructure monitoring and management, and Sovereign Critical Infrastructure technologies, it said. BCE and Cisco plan to work on an approach intended to help Canadian organizations deploy, secure and manage AI infrastructure in Canada, while giving customers more flexibility in how they access and scale sovereign AI capacity, it added. Shares of BCE were last seen down CA$0.385, or 1.3%, to CA$28.805 on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Price: 28.85, Change: -0.34, Percent Change: -1.16