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To: Brad Danchuk who wrote (40)	9/22/1998 10:39:00 AM
From: rdww	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 49

new news Oceania's initial plan for Sub-Saharan Africa Alexander News International Inc AWS Shares issued 4,593,465 Sep 21 close $0.60 Tue 22 Sept 98 News Release Mr. Donald O'Sullivan reports Alexander advises that the following is joint venture partner, Oceania Limited London's initial plan for the development of telecommunications in Sub-Saharan Africa. Oceania is focusing on the eastern and southern African states in Sub-Saharan Africa by implementing Tele-Trade Centres (TTCs). Management's goal is to install 2,000 TTCs within the next five years, with a planned capital investment of $25-million (U.S.), through the facilitation of telecommunications licences in the region. Oceania plans on supplying the people with the ability to communicate through wireless local loop technology. A typical TTC will provide telephones, facsimile machines, printers, e-mail and Internet connections on a pre-paid basis with an integrated paging/voice-mail system to receive messages. TTCs will ensure that individuals, businesses and community groups in the region can reap the economic and social benefits offered by modern technologies on an affordable basis. The TTCs will provide a hi-tech infrastructure, which will stimulate the effective use of telecommunication and computer technology for information access, education, trade, employment, training and business enterprise. The TTCs will engage local people to run the TTC as a business. Oceania will provide all of the equipment at its own cost and will train the local people in the use of the equipment. These will be established as individual Build Operate Transfer (BOT) business centres empowering local businesspersons and entrepreneurs. Africa, with 743.07 million people, has an average of 1.85 main telephone lines per 100 inhabitants according the International Telecommunications Union's (ITU) March 1998 World Telecommunications Indicators compared to Canada with 60.24, United States with 63.99, United Kingdom with 52.76 and Australia with 51.88. Alexander is considering a strategic equity partner to complement Oceania's expertise in the telecommunications industry due to the magnitude of the project. Alexander and Oceania are committed to establishing a voice and data communications platform in Sub-Saharan Africa that will relieve the pent up subscriber demand in the region while bringing Oceania into the competitive global telecommunications market. (c) Copyright 1998 Canjex Publishing Ltd. canada-stockwatch.com

To: Brad Danchuk who wrote (40)	9/24/1998 10:35:00 AM
From: rdww	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 49

another nr - does aws still have mineral properties ? Alexander News International Inc - Dr. Paul Cole retained Alexander News International Inc AWS Shares issued 4,593,465 1998-09-23 close $0.6 Thursday Sep 24 1998 Mr. Donald O'Sullivan reports Dr. Paul Cole, of Cole & Associates has been retained by Oceania to review its plans in the telecommunications sector of Sub-Saharan Africa. Dr. Cole has written an assessment report on Oceania's Tele-Trade Centre project. Following is a summary of the report. Executive Summary The purpose of the document is to provide an assessment of the proposal by Oceania Limited to deploy Tele-Trade Centres throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. Cole & Associates has reviewed the Oceania proposal and compared Oceania's concept against empirical experience in other telecommunications markets around the world. Positive Macro-Economic Impact Oceania's proposed deployment of TTCs is consistent with projects that have resulted in substantial, positive macro-economic impact elsewhere in the world. This is one of many reasons why telcom investment is a top priority for governments in emerging market nations as well as those trying to transform an economy. The TTCs proposed by Oceania will provide a high-tech infrastructure that has the potential to stimulate the effective use of telecommunications and computer technology for information access, education, trade, employment training, and other commercial uses. Economic development goes hand in hand with telecommunications development which is why the quality and sophistication of a nation's telecommunications network have become crucial competitive factors among nations seeking to attract foreign direct investment, or even tourism for that matter. The positive benefits of telecommunications are well known and need not be repeated in this assessment. In 1991, World Bank consultants Booz, Allen and Hamilton concluded that a lack of telecommunications infrastructure was costing Indonesia $2.5-billion in lost GDP per year. In 1967, Indonesia's GDP per capita was $70 (half of India), by 1990 it was $600 (double India), and the World Bank projects that Indonesia will reach $1,000 in GDP/capita by 2000. Until the recent currency crisis, Indonesia's economy was one of the fastest growing in the world (annual growth rate of 6 per cent). Telecommunications will certainly contribute to Indonesia's recovery as well. Potential Revenue Estimates Oceania's proposal takes into account the fact that the vast majority of people living in remote areas do not earn enough to support one telephone line per household as is often found in developed economies. The only solution, therefore, is a plan that will allow one line to be shared by many individuals or several households. The TTC concept has been proven in Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Southwest Asia (including India) and other parts of Latin America. Oceania's proposal is, therefore, reasonable and economically viable. (c) Copyright 1998 Canjex Publishing Ltd. canada-stockwatch.com