Attention: Business/News/Assignment Editors
For Immediate Release


September 28th, 1999/ Chatham, ON, Canada: Canquest Communications (Wireless) Inc. and BMI division of Bruce Municipal Telephone Services (BMTS) have partnered to provide cellular services to more than 14,000 of its telephone customers in Bruce County and its internet customers in Bruce, Huron Grey and Simcoe counties.

Rooted in the early years of the 1900's, BMTS was established to offer the families of Bruce Township with a telephone system to link them to one another and nearby towns. After decades of reliable, progressive service BMTS strives to provide leading edge technology while continuing to recognize the importance of being an integral part of the communities in which it does business. 

Canquest Communications (Wireless) Inc. is poised to take a leadership position in prepaid wireless telephony processing based on the ability to dynamically respond to the rapidly changing world of telecommunications through advanced technology developed and copyrighted by an "in-house" development team.

"The BMI cellular program is unique in the ability to empower the customer to control their own airtime costs", commented COO of Canquest Wireless, Bill Bradley. "Canquest and BMI will offer a low flat rate service Canada wide coupled with technology allowing the customer to buy prepaid cellular airtime over the air without a monthly contract or visit to a retail outlet."

"As one of the largest independent telephone companies in Canada, we have selected Canquest as our cellular provider" says Hans Nilsson, General Manager of BMTS. "We are pleased to announce teaming with Canquest, a partnership that will allow us to choose our own branding combined with utilizing the most advanced technology in the marketplace today."

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. 

The Bruce Municipal Telephone Service is a public utility of the Township of Kincardine, Bruce and Tiverton servicing more than 14,000 customers located along the Lake Huron shoreline communities of Bruce County. The BMI division of the Bruce Municipal Telephone Service is the Internet Service Provider (ISP), providing service to communitites in Bruce, Huron Grey and Simcoe counties. Their installed based has grown to over 10,000.


For further information please contact:
Derek Robertson, Canquest Communications (Canada) Inc. at (519) 351-8647 or 
email at DRoberts@Canquest.com