BCE, Our Parent Company 

BCE Inc. is Canada's leading communications services company in size, scope and reach, providing customers with the widest range of services. BCE's reach extends across Canada, through such companies as Bell Canada, Bell ExpressVu and the Sympatico Internet access service, and around the world through Teleglobe and BCI.

From its beginnings as a telephone utility, BCE has grown to become a world-class communications company. BCE's position reflects a broader view of the communications world in which technologies have enabled the convergence of information, communications and entertainment to meet customer expectations of simplicity.

Through its various subsidiaries - including Bell Canada, Excel Telecommunications (Canada) Inc., Bell ExpressVu, Bell Mobility, Teleglobe, Telesat Canada, Look Communications, CGI Group, BCE Emergis - and its recently announced media alliance - which will group CTV Inc., the Globe and Mail and the Sympatico-Lycos Internet portal - BCE has active interests in a wide range of communications products and services. These include: wired and wireless networks, Internet-protocol (IP)-based networks and solutions, e-commerce, systems integration, on-line and printed telephone directories, satellite networks, direct-to-home entertainment delivery and content, high-speed Internet access, Internet portals and Web hosting.

The organization employs more than 55,000 people and has assets of $37 billion. In the third quarter of 2000, the company earned revenues of $329 million. BCE, based in Montréal, is a publicly traded company listed on the Toronto and New York stock exchanges (stock symbol: BCE).