To All:
APC Telecommunications Launches Long Distance
Program for Ontario Jewish Community
Business Wire - February 24, 1999 08:26
TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 24, 1999--APC Telecommunications (OTC Bulletin Board:APCI) APC Telecommunications, Inc., a Canadian controlled company publicly trading as (OTCBB - Symbol APCI), has signed an agreement with the Sunnybrook Jewish Chapel Fund (SJC)
to act as an official sales agent for APC's unique long distance services. APC Telecommunications markets traditional long distance telephone services, offering a Guaranteed Lowest Rate (GLR(tm)) package.
In announcing the program Michael Earle, Chairman, SJC Special Fundraising Committee said: "Our people are constantly being asked to give and they do so generously. This is an innovative opportunity
to ensure that they get something back while they give. Every individual and business makes long distance phone calls. They want long distance savings. Now they can get them and contribute to a
worthy cause at the same time."
Rabbi Barry Schneider of Sunnybrook Synagogue, appealed to the Jewish community: "By choosing to make APC your long distance telephone provider you will be reducing the cost of your long distance phone bills, while helping to support the activities of our Synagogue at Sunnybrook. Our goal is to enhance the programs we presently offer to our veterans, patients and their family members. We are pleased to recommend this opportunity to our community."
In entering into the agreement the Sunnybrook Jewish Chapel fund recognized a 'no lose' way to raise money for good deeds while providing donors with the value-added benefit of the lowest long
distance rates available. Under the terms of the undertaking APC has appointed the Sunnybrook Jewish Chapel Fund as exclusive agent in marketing its services to some 450,000 households in the Jewish Community in Ontario. As part of this association, the SJC will receive funding on an ongoing basis. SJC will enlist support from 350 other Jewish community associations offering them the opportunity to share in the fund-raising program. For every new customer that is signed, the SJC will give back to the signing association never less than 50 percent of all monies rebated through those billings.
SJC members will also be selling APC Pre Paid calling cards for use as gifts or when travelling outside the country.APC Telecommunications Inc., a rapidly expanding Canadian telecommunications company provides
phone-to-phone, PC-to-phone, traditional long distance reselling and other services. APC markets its long distance telephone services primarily through its Guaranteed Lowest Rate Calling (GLR(tm))
program, utilizing Datex Communications Corporation's billing software exclusively available to APC.
APC analyzes its customers' phone bills each month against the rates of the three leading long distance service providers in Canada, Sprint Canada, a division of CallNet (Nasdaq: CNEBS), Bell Canada (Nasdaq: BCICF) and AT&T (NYSE: T). and guarantees its customers a rate lower than the best rate available. (APC is not affiliated with Sprint Canada, Bell Canada or AT&T.)
In addition to long distance services via traditional land lines, APC Telecommunications has also entered the exciting and rapidly growing Internet telephony market, providing the transmission of voice, fax and data calls over the Internet.
Telecom Veteran, Ron Crowe VP of Operations says "APC has entered into a comprehensive Gateway co-location agreement with PSINet Nasdaq:PSIX), pursuant to which APC will strategically deploy Gateways across Canada. Once these Gateways are in operation, APC will be
able to route long distance calls over land lines or the Internet, depending on the best available rate,increasing operating margins on its long distance business."
APC is targeting the small and medium size businesses and the small business home business (SOHO) segment, through its multi-level network marketing program.
Safe Harbor Statement: Assertions in this news release looking forward in time involve risks and uncertainties, including risks associated with the effect of changing economic conditions, trends in the
development of the Internet as a commercial medium and carrier of telephony traffic, risks inherent in the long distance telephone business, market acceptance risks, technological development risks and
other risk factors.
APC Telecommunications, Inc. (OTCBB Symbol APCI), is located at 241 Applewood Crescent, Suite 4, Vaughan, Ontario L4K 4E6, Canada. Telephone (877) 272-1225 toll free, fax (905)761-9658, email: info@apctel.com.
CONTACT: APC Telecommunications, Inc.
Barbara Jesson, 416/ 966-3461
or
APC Telecommunications, Inc.
Kevin Putnam, 416/ 537-1128
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