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To: JGoren who wrote (2116)	10/7/1999 10:07:00 PM
From: Ruffian	Respond to of 13582

Canada> 10/07/99 - Canadian PCS Users Get E-mail From Bell 10/06/99 CITY, STATE, COUNTRY, 1999 OCT 6 (Newsbytes) -- By Steven Bonisteel, Newsbytes. Canadian digital cellular customers in much of Ontario and Quebec will be able to read e-mail on mobile phones beginning Oct. 12. Bell Mobility, a subsidiary of BCE Mobile Communications Inc. [TSE:ME] [NYSE:BCX], has announced that it is adding support for the Internet"s ubiquitous POP3 mailbox standard to the features of its Mobile Browser service launched earlier this year. Norm Silins, director of data services marketing for Bell Mobility, told Newsbytes today that customers with POP3 e- mail accounts anywhere on the Internet will be able to access their in-box from a digital phone to read, reply, forward, delete and send messages using Personal Communications Services (PCS) phones. But to access the service at launch time, Bell Mobility customers will need to be using certain Qualcomm phones (the QCP 2700 or QCP 2700F). In the future, it said, new PCS phones, such as offerings from Nokia, will support the Mobile Browser. The new service provides access to all the standard functions of desktop e-mail. And, Silins said, messages deleted via the PCS phone are also deleted from POP3 mailboxes, so that a user"s mail is kept in sync. Silins said the Mobile Browser technology also gives users access to personalized content from Canadian Internet service provider Sympatico, one of Bell Mobility"s sister Bell companies. Bell Mobility said English-speaking customers will be able use the service beginning Oct. 12, while French-language versions will launch sometime by mid-November. Bell Mobility says there are no monthly service fee for its Mobile Browser. Instead, customers are charged 15 cents a minute while surfing from their handsets. Silins said there are many non-Bell sites offering content for Mobile Browser users, including a Charles Schwab Canada site that allows customers to access and trade stocks. In fact, he said, any Website that serves up information in the standard Handheld Device Markup Languages (HDML) can support Mobile Browser users. Reported by Newsbytes.com, newsbytes.com 16:51 CST (19991006/Press contact:Norm Berberich, 905-282-4054 /WIRES TELECOM, ONLINE/)