Attention: Business/News/Assignment Editors
For Immediate Release


December 17th, 1999/ Chatham, ON, Canada: Canquest Communications (Canada) Inc. has been chosen as the service bureau of the Prepaid Phone Card Division of SaskTel, the leading technology and telecommunications provider to the people of Saskatchewan for over 90 years.

Canquest Communications offers a distributed, prepaid transaction processing network that offers unprecedented scalability and flexibility in the delivery of prepaid telecommunications transactions. The Canquest network provides clients with an efficient and cost-effective means of addressing the dynamic prepaid telecommunications transaction market.

SaskTel is a world leader in technology and telecommunications. They serve 450,000 customers and maintain over 90% of the competitive long distance market in Saskatchewan, the highest percentage of any telecommunications company in Canada. SaskTel has a varied portfolio of prepaid phone cards, ideal for university students, people working in remote areas and convenient gifts.

"SaskTel chose Canquest Communications as the service bureau to our prepaid card division based on their long term commitment to the telecommunications industry and the proprietary copyrighted technology produced by the in-house Canquest development team", commented Dan Baldwin, SaskTel Senior Vice President Marketing and Corporate Planning. "Canquest shares our inherent corporate beliefs of honesty, integrity and mutual respect providing value to the customer through price, quality and service."

"Canquest looks forward to fostering a relationship with SaskTel by utilizing innovative, technologically advanced strategies to meet all of the needs of one of the most diverse Provincial Telco's in Canada", states Vice President of Operations, Mike Pugh. "Teaming with SaskTel meets the long term strategy of Canquest to provide services to first class progressive telecommunications companies."

SaskTel is the leading full service communications company in Saskatchewan, providing competitive voice, data, dial and high speed Internet, web hosting, QUANTUMLYNX Office applications, secure electronic transactions, text and messaging services over fiber optic-based, fully digital network, as well as digital and analog cellular, paging, wireless data and FleetNet 800 service through its SaskTel Mobility division. SaskTel also maintains investments in companies which provide directory publishing, remote security monitoring, system design, project management, engineering consulting, software sales, multimedia and cable television services. The website for SaskTel is www.sasktel.com.

Canquest Communications is 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 website for Canquest is www.canquest.com.



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