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Long-term debt (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2024
Financial Instruments [Abstract] |
Summary of long-term debt |
For the year ended December 31 | Note | Weighted average interest rate at December 31, 2024 |  | 2024 | 2023
Notes payable(1) | 29 | 3.51 |  | % | 2,203 |  | 207 |
Loans secured by receivables(2) | 29 | 4.62 |  | % | 1,600 |  | 1,588 |
Supplier finance arrangements due within one year | 25 | 6.42 |  | % | 73 |  | 74 |
Long-term debt due within one year(3) | 25 | 3.82 |  | % | 3,793 |  | 3,173 |
Total debt due within one year |  |  |  | 7,669 |  | 5,042 |
(1)Includes commercial paper of $1,522 million in U.S. dollars ($2,190 million in Canadian dollars) and $149 million in U.S. dollars ($197 million in Canadian dollars) as at December 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively, which were issued under our U.S. commercial paper program and have been hedged for foreign currency fluctuations with forward currency contracts. See Note 29, Financial and capital management, for additional details. (2)Loans secured by receivables totaled $1,112 million in U.S. dollars ($1,600 million in Canadian dollars) and $1,200 million in U.S. dollars ($1,588 million in Canadian dollars) as at December 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively, and have been hedged for foreign currency fluctuations with forward currency contracts. See Note 29, Financial and capital management, for additional details. (3)Included in long-term debt due within one year is the current portion of lease liabilities of $1,088 million and $1,074 million as at December 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively.
For the year ended December 31 | Note | Weighted average interest rate at December 31, 2024 | Maturity | 2024 | 2023
| Debt securities |  |  |  |  |
|  | 1997 trust indenture (1) |  | 4.18 | % | 2025-2053 | 20,273 |  | 19,768 |
|  | 1976 trust indenture |  | 9.38 | % | 2027-2054 | 975 |  | 975 |
|  | 2011 trust indenture (2) |  |  |  | — |  | 225 |
|  | 2016 U.S. trust indenture (3) |  | 4.24 | % | 2032-2054 | 9,445 |  | 7,529 |
|  | 1996 trust indenture (subordinated) |  | 8.21 | % | 2026-2031 | 275 |  | 275 |
| Lease liabilities |  | 4.35 | % | 2025-2069 | 4,591 |  | 4,857 |
| Bell Mobility trade loan (4) |  | 4.87 | % | 2025-2026 | 863 |  | 476 |
| Supplier finance arrangements |  | 6.42 | % | 2025-2029 | 197 |  | 218 |
| Other |  |  |  | 243 |  | 204 |
Total debt |  |  |  | 36,862 |  | 34,527 |
| Net unamortized discount |  |  |  | (29) |  | (33) |
| Unamortized debt issuance costs |  |  |  | (132) |  | (112) |
| Less amounts due within one year: |  |  |  |  |
|  | Supplier finance arrangements | 24 |  |  | (73) |  | (74) |
|  | Long-term debt | 24 |  |  | (3,793) |  | (3,173) |
Total long-term debt |  |  |  | 32,835 |  | 31,135 |
(1)At December 31, 2024 and 2023, $1,300 million and $1,625 million, respectively, have been swapped from fixed to floating using interest rate swaps. As at December 31, 2024, $525 million have been swapped from fixed to floating with forward interest rate swaps starting in 2028. See Note 29, Financial and capital management, for additional details. (2)On December 12, 2024, the trust indenture dated August 10, 2011 between Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. (now Bell MTS Inc.) and Computershare Trust Company of Canada, as supplemented from time to time, was canceled and discharged given that no more debt securities were outstanding thereunder. (3)At December 31, 2024 and 2023, notes issued under the 2016 U.S. trust indenture totaled $6,550 million and $5,700 million in U.S. dollars, respectively, and have been hedged for foreign currency fluctuations with cross currency interest rate swaps, including $600 million in U.S. dollars which was swapped from fixed to floating at December 31, 2023. See Note 29, Financial and capital management, for additional details. (4)At December 31, 2024 and 2023, loans incurred under the Bell Mobility trade loan agreement totaled $600 million in U.S. dollars and $360 million in U.S. dollars, respectively, and have been hedged for foreign currency fluctuations with cross currency interest rate swaps. See Note 29, Financial and capital management, for additional details.

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