Canada Payphone signs agreement with Best Western Hotels and Resorts
CDNX Symbol:CPY
BURNABY, BC, March 2 /CNW/ - Canada Payphone Corporation (CDNX:CPY),
Canada's leading competitive pay telephone service provider, is pleased to
announce that it has entered into an agreement with Best Western
International, Inc. offering AT&T Canada branded payphones and interactive
Internet kiosks to all of their hotels and resorts in Canada.
Best Western International is the world's largest lodging brand including
162 properties across Canada. Each property has between two and six payphones.
Canada Payphone will be installing its high technology payphones including the
newly announced Grapevine(TM) Network Terminal and Interactive Internet
Kiosks. The AT&T Canada branded payphones accept all coins, credit and calling
cards, as well as provide full operator services and flat rate long distance
charges across Canada and to the United States. The Grapevine(TM) Network
terminals and Internet Kiosks also display advertising and offer guests access
to local community services and information, and the Internet for e-commerce
and personal information services.
``We are pleased that Best Western International has chosen Canada
Payphone as their payphone provider of choice for CPC's state-of-the-art AT&T
Canada branded payphones, Grapevine(TM) Network Terminals and Interactive
Internet Kiosks,' said Bruce Clark, President and CEO, Canada Payphone.
``Best Western is one of Canada's leading hotel chains and is tops in the
industry when it comes to tourist class hotels.'
Best Western International is the world's largest lodging brand with more
than 4,000 hotels in 84 countries and territories. It is a membership
organization of independently owned and operated hotels. Best Western
International also provides marketing, reservations and operational support to
its member hotels. For more information, visit Best Western's Web site at
www.bestwestern.com.
AT&T Canada is Canada's largest facilities-based competitive provider of
local and long distance voice, data and Internet telecommunications services.
Created during 1999 from the merger of MetroNet Communications, AT&T Canada
Long Distance Services, Netcom Canada and ACC TelEnterprises, AT&T Canada
brings together the country's largest competitive local exchange carrier
(CLEC), three of Canada's leading competitive Internet Service Providers
(ISP), and Canada's pioneer in competitive long distance. AT&T Canada Inc. is
a public company with its common stock traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange
under the symbol TEL.B and on the NASDAQ National Market System under the
symbol ATTC. Visit AT&T Canada's web site, www.attcanada.com for more
information about the company.
Canada Payphone is Canada's leading national competitive payphone service
provider. The Company provides services from Victoria to Halifax installing
state-of-the-art AT&T Canada branded payphones, Grapevine(TM) Network
Terminals and Interactive Internet Kiosks. Canada Payphone Corporation is a
public company traded on the CDNX under the symbol ``CPY'. For more
information, visit Canada Payphone's web site at www.canadapayphone.com. |
