Attention: Business/News/Assignment Editors
For Immediate Release

2000/04/14 Chatham, ON, Canada: Canquest Communications (Wireless) Inc. is pleased to announce the launch of prepaid cellular services with Thunder Bay Mobility, a division of Thunder Bay Telephone, owned by the Corporation of the City of Thunder Bay.

Having launched their cellular service over eight years ago Thunder Bay Mobility has continued to increase their coverage area every year. Thunder Bay Mobility offers cellular phone service to their customers virtually anywhere across North America. In keeping with their core objective to offer their customers innovative products and services, Thunder Bay Mobility have teamed with Canquest Communications (Wireless) Inc. to provide a Prepaid Cellular product which represents the most advanced recharge system available in North America. 

The copyrighted recharge software produced by Canquest's "in-house" development team is designed to enable prepaid wireless products to empower their users to control their own airtime costs and provide true "over-the-air" recharge. "Canquest enthusiastically forges ahead in a cumulative effort with Thunder Bay Mobility to offer a quality Prepaid Wireless Phone which no longer requires a visit to a retail outlet for replenishment", states John W. Smith, Chief Executive Officer of Canquest Communications (Wireless) Inc. 

"Thunder Bay Mobility's prepaid cellular service offers ease of use at an affordable price.", commented Kevin Burns, . "The Thunder Bay Mobility launch provides a competitive per minute rate without a contract, monthly service fee and the added benefit of recharging airtime directly from the handset with the CQ-1000 Function 55 technology."

Canquest Communications (Wireless) Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Canquest Communications (Canada) Inc., Canada's only licensed full service card platform provider offering a range of electronic transaction business solutions including prepaid and postpaid phone cards, prepaid cellular, prepaid paging and customer service.

Thunder Bay Mobility is a division of Thunder Bay Telephone, owned by the Corporation of the City of Thunder Bay. Thunder Bay Telephone is the largest independent telephone system in Canada, fully staffed by over 250 employees. As a shareholder in the Mobility Canada group of cellular providers, Thunder Bay Mobility offers their customer base cellular service on their continually expanding network from Kakabeka Falls in the west, east to Nipigon, north to Dog Lake and south to the Canada US border in Fort Frances.


For further information please contact:
Judy Dalby, Canquest Communications (Wireless) Inc. at (519) 474-7788 or email at 
JDalby@CanquestWireless.com