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Any heading or section of the MD&A of BCE 2020, 2021 and 2022 (BCE 2020 MD&A, BCE 2021 MD&A or BCE 2022 MD&A) and any heading or section of BCE’s 2022 Consolidated Financial Statements mentioned in this Annual Information Form are incorporated by reference here in. No other document should be considered as incorporated into this AIF by reference. BCE 2020 MD&A, BCE 2021 MD&A, BCE 2022 MD&A and BCE 2022 Consolidated Financial Statements have been filed with the Canadian provincial securities regulators (available at sedar.com) and the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as an annex to BCE’s annual reports filed on Form 40-F (available at sec.gov). They are also available on BCE’s website at BCE.ca.

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Unless otherwise noted, dollar amounts are in Canadian dollars. The information contained in this annual information form is as of March 2, 2023, unless otherwise stated, and except for the information contained in the documents incorporated by reference which is provided as of another date.

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