Bell Canada signage is displayed at a store in Toronto on June 22, 2016. Photo by Brent Lewin/Bloomberg

BCE Inc. plans to save $1.5 billion in costs and expand home internet services in western Canada and the U.S. to restore growth after its share price fell by 26 per cent over the past year.

Canada’s largest telecommunications company plans to increase free cash flow by seven per cent a year between 2025 and 2028. Management is also targeting revenue growth of as much as four per cent over the same period, BCE said before the start of its investor day Tuesday.

The company, based in the Montreal region, plans to launch internet service in the coming weeks in British Columbia and Alberta, a territory currently dominated by Telus Corp. and Rogers Communications Inc.

That move comes

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