BCI Announces Changes to its Board of Directors.

Business Editors

MONTREAL--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 1, 2002

Bell Canada International Inc. (Nasdaq:BCICF) (TSE:BI) ("BCI") today announced the election of Mr. Siim A. Vanaselja at its annual meeting of shareholders on Wednesday, May 1, 2002, in Montreal. Mr. Vanaselja who was appointed as Chief Financial Officer of BCE Inc. in January 2001 previously held the position of Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer of BCI.

Also re-elected as directors of BCI at the annual meeting were:

-- Mr. William D. Anderson, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BCI;

-- Mr. John (Ian) Craig, corporate director;

-- The Honourable John Crosbie, P.C., O.C., Q.C., member as counsel of the law
firm Patterson Palmer and Chancellor of Memorial University of Newfoundland;

-- Ms. Donna S. Kaufman, lawyer and corporate director;

-- Mr. Michel Plessis-Belair, F.C.A., Vice-Chairman, Chief Financial Officer
and director of Power Corporation of Canada;

-- Mr. C. Wesley M. Scott, corporate director;

-- Mr. Louis A. Tanguay, Vice-Chairman of BCI;

-- Mr. H. Brian Thompson, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of
Universal Telecommunications Inc.

Concurrent with these changes, Mr. Jean Monty former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BCE, Mr. Michael Sabia, the newly appointed Chief Executive Officer of BCE and Mr. H. Arnold Steinberg, Principal and director of Cleman Ludmer Steinberg Inc. depart the BCI Board after many years of valued service.

BCI, through Telecom Americas, owns and operates 4 Brazilian B Band cellular companies serving more than 4.5 million subscribers in territories of Brazil with a population of approximately 60 million. BCI is a subsidiary of BCE Inc., Canada's largest communications company. BCI is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol BI and on the NASDAQ National Market under the symbol BCICF. Visit our Web site at www.bci.ca.

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