BCE Renews $1B MTN Program

On November 16, 2005, BCE Inc. completed the renewal of its $1 billion medium term note program. The program was established pursuant to a short-form base shelf prospectus dated November 11, 2005, as supplemented by a prospectus supplement dated November 15, 2005, filed in all provinces of Canada. The dealers were BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc., Casgrain & Company Ltd., CIBC World Markets Inc., Desjardins Securities Inc., Merrill Lynch Canada Inc., National Bank Financial, RBC Dominion Securities Inc., Scotia Capital Inc. and TD Securities Inc.

BCE was represented in-house by Ildo Ricciuto, assistant general counsel, compliance, and Alain Dussault, legal counsel, and by Jean Marc Huot, Benoît Dubord and David Massé of Stikeman Elliott LLP. The dealers were represented by Richard Shannon and Fred Enns of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP.