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To: Len Hynes who wrote (599)	7/28/1999 12:48:00 AM
From: Rodney Saunders	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 841

I assume that the continuous regergitation of these articles on all boards on the web answers my question. Its the way the future will be, but anybody can and will do it. If anybody working at an ASP can comment as to barriers to entry it would be appreciated.

To: Len Hynes who wrote (599)	8/4/1999 10:31:00 AM
From: Len Hynes	Read Replies (16) \| Respond to of 841

Some interesting news from Infocast Corp. InfoCast Joins with AT&T Canada To Launch Commercial Virtual Call Centre Solution TORONTO, Aug. 4 /CNW/ -- InfoCast Corporation ("Infocast") (OTC Bulletin Board: IFCC), a leading Application Service Provider (ASP), announced today that it has entered into an agreement with AT&T Canada to launch one of Canada's first commercial virtual call centres supported by AT&T Canada's advanced digital virtual private network (VPN). The virtual call centre software program allows agents to work in a virtual environment, no matter where they are located, home or office, just by using a personal computer and a headset. Supervisors monitor the agents' productivity and efficiency in the same way as in any other call centre. More than 3,000 virtual agents will be trained and begin taking calls over AT&T Canada's virtual private network within the next 12 months. InfoCast's virtual call centre software application connects any prospect or customer any time, anywhere, in their language of choice, to a live agent, immediately. James Hines, President of InfoCast, stated, "We are excited to launch this industry leading business solution with AT&T Canada. The combination of AT&T Canada's broadband networks together with their excellence in marketing and customer service will help to make the InfoCast Virtual Call Centre application one of the key applications for E-commerce globally." "By melding traditional call centre solutions with Internet technology, this will position InfoCast as the market leader in virtual call centre solutions," added James. "Call Centre business is booming in North America. This new breed VCC solution solves real business problems today, providing load balancing and sharing, redundancy and back-up, skills allocation, facility cost savings, and an expanded labor pool," remarked Michael Sheehan, Senior Vice President, InfoCast. "The AT&T Canada advanced digital VPN is designed to provide 100% call completion seamlessly to agents in both traditional and virtual call centres. It provides customers with two key features: bandwidth for high-speed digital data transmissions, and secure routing through all links," said George Harvey, President, Business Services, AT&T Canada. About InfoCast: USA-based InfoCast Corporation, an Application Service Provider (ASP) is in the business of providing outsourced IT solutions to the North American marketplace. Infocast applications will be delivered through a North American network of strategically placed information hubs. These hubs will be implemented on Sun Microsystems' Enterprise 10000 computing platform and based on Sun Solaris, Netscape and Java related technologies, providing the highest levels of reliability, scalability and performance in the industry. InfoCast is using a sophisticated distributed architecture technology that brings reliability and scalability to applications distributed across a network. This technology provides the infrastructure that enables and enhances applications such as InfoCast's initiatives in Distributed Learning, Telework, Virtual Call Center Solutions and Application Hosting. More information about InfoCast Corporation can be found on the web at www.infocast-corp.com. About AT&T Canada: AT&T Canada is Canada's largest facilities-based competitive voice, data and Internet telecommunications provider. Created in June 1999 from the merger of AT&T Canada Long Distance Services, MetroNet Communications, 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. Deploying the most advanced fibre-optic networking and digital switching platforms, AT&T Canada offers customers across the country a full suite of local and long distance voice, data, and Internet services -- with excellent customer service, sales and service locations from coast-to-coast, and competitive pricing. AT&T Canada is a public company with its common stock traded on the Toronto and Montreal stock exchanges 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. This press release contains forward-looking statements. These forward- looking statements are dependent on a number of factors, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. -30- For further information: Mr. James Hines, President, Jhines@infocast-corp.com, or Mr. Cliff A. Jones, Investor Relations, cjones@infocast-corp.com, both of InfoCast Corporation, North America toll free: 877-338-8889 /Web site: attcanada.com /Web site: infocast-corp.com

To: Len Hynes who wrote (599)	8/16/1999 1:27:00 PM
From: Len Hynes	Respond to of 841

PRESS RELEASE INFOCAST CORPORATION NAMES JAMES LEECH CEO Company Cites New CEO?s Experience Building Public Companies TORONTO August 16, 1999 ? INFOCAST CORPORATION (?InfoCast?) (NASDAQ BB symbol: ?IFCC?), today announced the appointment of James W. Leech as its new President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Leech also becomes a Director of the company. Mr. James Hines, who is President and a Director, has been appointed Executive Vice-President and Director. Co-Chairmen, Thomas Griffis and Darcy Galvon, described Mr. Leech as an experienced, top-ranked senior executive with a strong track record of building publicly owned companies in the entrepreneurial technology field and other sectors. ?We are very pleased that Mr. Leech has elected to join InfoCast at this stage of our exciting growth, and we look forward to major contributions from him in taking the company to a higher level as the Application Service Provider (ASP) sector expands over the coming years.? In confirmation of his new role with InfoCast, Mr. Leech said, ?I am honored to join this exciting growth company and I look forward to making a significant contribution in assisting the overall management team. Our goal is to build InfoCast into a dominant ASP with state-of-the-art network/computing services to major corporate sectors through North America and abroad.? InfoCast is a rapidly growing ?first mover? company in ASP outsourcing. The company has strategic marketing relationships with Sun Microsystems Inc. and AT&T Canada and important positions in the vertical call center, distance learning and teleworking outsourced network computing markets. Moving into the position of Executive Vice-President of InfoCast, Mr. Hines will continue to direct the company's expansion in the important call center and distance learning market sectors and will implement overall corporate strategy and market positions in collaboration with Mr. Leech. Mr. Leech will lead the way in directing the company?s implementation of its North American expansion strategy following the initial purchase of a Sun Enterprise 10000 server or iHub, from Sun Microsystems, Inc. The company expects to set up and operate up to 12 such iHubs over the next 18 months. Prior to accepting his new position with InfoCast, effective early September 1999, Mr. Leech most recently served as Vice-Chairman of a data security and networking firm, Ontario-based Kasten Chase Applied Research Ltd. He became Vice-Chairman there after staging a successful corporate turnaround and merging a high technology communication firm, Disys Corporation, into Kasten Chase in 1996. Mr. Leech led a strategic turnaround effort that included raising new equity capital, moving the company from an operating loss to achieving a profit, and engineering acquisitions and internal growth to reposition the company into the wireless communication business. Earlier in his career, Mr. Leech served as President of Unicorp Canada, a financial services firm, building its assets from $50 million to $6 billion in five years. Subsequently, as President and CEO of Union Energy, Inc., he directed a growth strategy that took assets from $1.6 billion to $2.7 billion and culminated in a merger of the company into Westcoast Energy Inc., in a $750 million transaction. USA-based InfoCast Corporation, an Application Service Provider(ASP), is in the business of electronic content delivery and information management to meet the high-speed information needs of global corporate consumers. InfoCast is using a sophisticated distributed architecture technology that brings reliability and scalability to applications distributed across a network. This technology provides the infrastructure that enables and enhances applications such as InfoCast?s initiatives in Distributed Learning, Telework, Virtual Call Center Solutions and Application Hosting. More information about InfoCast Corporation can be found on the worldwide web at www.infocast-corp.com. This press release contains forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are dependent on a number of factors, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. For further information contact: Mr. James Hines, Mr. Cliff A. Jones Executive Vice-President Investor Relations jhines@infocast-corp.com cjones@infocast-corp.com InfoCast Corporation North America toll Free: (877) 338-8889