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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (1222)	9/1/1998 1:09:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3178

Bell Moving Further Into Internet Telephony [[All, also see today's other Canada story, this time re Deutsche Telekom Canada, at: Message 5641034 ...from the VOCLF thread. Regards, Frank C.]] September 1, 1998 MONTREAL--(BUSINESS WIRE) Bell Canada today augmented its growing portfolio of communications services offered over the public Internet with the introduction of an international fax service based on Internet Protocol (IP). At the same time, the company announced the launch of trials of an international long-distance voice service, also based on Internet Protocol. The advent of such capabilities is part of an industry trend known as Internet Telephony. "Bell Canada is committed to delivering leading-edge products to all segments of its customer base," says Josee Goulet, Group Vice-President, Markets and Sales - Ontario. "Through our Emergis division, Bell is a major player in the growing area of Internet Telephony and is dedicated and plans to bring a number of leading services - such as voice and fax over IP - to the marketplace. We are committed to developing products that give us competitive strength both terms of features and of price." Fax Over IP The fax service, mainly designed for small and medium-sized businesses, will be initially available from Toronto and Montreal to London, England and Paris, France, and will be expanded to include a number of other cities in Europe and Asia. The service currently supports fax-to-fax and e-mail-to-fax and will eventually support PC to fax, fax to PC, fax to e-mail and broadcast fax. Voice over IP The trial of voice service over IP between Toronto to London has been in place since August 10, and will be made available between Montreal to Paris in late September. "The purpose of the voice trials, which are expected to run for two months, is to gauge customer demand and generate feedback on the value of the service," says Goulet. "This will include seeking customers' opinions on the quality and reliability of the service. Our goal is to explore this new environment and gain the insight we need to develop products and services for this market." "We are able to provide these leading edge services through the partnerships we've built among Bell Canada, Bell Emergis and Nortel," said Jim Tobin, CEO of Bell Emergis. Today's announcement follows a similar initiative earlier this month when Bell announced a voice and fax over IP service for medium and large customers using their internal Intranet network. Bell Canada, the largest Canadian telecommunications company, markets a full range of state-of-the-art products and services to more than seven million business and residential customers in Ontario and Quebec. Bell Emergis is the network-centric application development division of Bell Canada. Formed in July 1997, it represents a commitment by Bell Canada unique within the worldwide network services sector to harness next generation internetworking environments to deliver rich, software-intensive capabilities to businesses, consumers and other carriers. CONTACT: BCE Inc. \| Don Doucette, 514/786-3924 \| bcecomms@bce.ca \| URL: bce.ca [Copyright 1998, Business Wire]