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To: Garry O'krafka who wrote (83)	6/9/1999 10:57:00 AM
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Attention Business Editors: Scotiabank and Rogers Cantel to offer wireless banking and discount brokerage services to Canadians TORONTO, June 9 /CNW/ - Scotiabank and Rogers Cantel Inc. have teamed up to provide Canadians anytime, anywhere access to their financial information - right in the palm of their hand. Under the agreement, Scotiabank's customers will be able to access banking and discount brokerage information using the Cantel(R) AT&T(TM) Interactive Messaging Device. ''Scotiabank has always played a leading role in Canadian banking -- providing customers with a variety of choices so that they can do their banking and discount brokerage business when and where it is convenient,'' said Albert Wahbe, Executive Vice-President, Electronic Banking, Scotiabank. ''With the addition of the Cantel AT&T Interactive Messaging service, we are offering our customers the ultimate in financial services convenience -- a range of banking and discount brokerage information at their fingertips.'' The agreement between Rogers Cantel and Scotiabank will enable Scotiabank customers to receive financial information, including bank account and credit card balances and statements, stock quotes, portfolio information and e-mail - all on their Cantel AT&T Interactive Messaging device. ''The Cantel AT&T Interactive Messaging Device is the ideal solution for the delivery of sensitive and timely information,'' said Charles Hoffman, President and CEO, Rogers Cantel Inc. ''Cantel AT&T Interactive Messaging enables users to send and receive messages of up to 16,000 characters (approx. 2,700 words), and, using the unique confirmation of delivery feature, the ability to know when the message has been successfully sent, opened and read by the recipient.'' Cantel AT&T Interactive Messaging transmits secure, packet-switched messages in virtual real-time over the Cantel AT&T Mobitex network, a dedicated data transmission network unique to Rogers Cantel serving Canadians from coast to coast. Scotiabank is one of the North America's premier financial institutions, with more than $221 billion in assets and approximately 42,000 employees worldwide. It is also Canada's most international bank, with more than 1,600 branches and offices in more than 50 countries on six continents. Scotiabank is on the World Wide Web at www.scotiabank.ca. Rogers Cantel Inc. is Canada's largest wireless provider serving over two million customers from coast to coast. Marketed under the co-brand Cantel(R) AT&T(TM), Rogers Cantel provides a complete range of wireless solutions including cellular, paging and Interactive Messaging, Digital PCS and wireless data services. Owned and operated by Rogers Cantel Mobile Communications Inc., (TSE: RCM.B; NYSE:RCN), Rogers Cantel is an 81% owned subsidiary of Rogers Communications Inc. (R) Rogers Cantel Inc. (TM) AT&T CORP. Used under License. -0- 06/09/1999 For further information: Catherine Melville, Public Affairs Manager, Scotiabank, PH: (416) 866-6203; Heather Armstrong, Director, Corporate Communications, Rogers Cantel Inc., PH: (416) 935-6379 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Release sent courtesy of Canada NewsWire Portfolio Email. To update your email portfolio, point your web browser here: portfolio.newswire.ca Please address any questions about your portfolio to cnw@newswire.ca E-Pix Now you can call the shots with E-Pix, Canada's first - and the only - corporate newswire database of client-controlled pictures and images. Developed in conjunction with, and managed by The Canadian Press, E-Pix offers free photos and images to all CP member newspapers. E-PIX combines state-of-the-art, electronic picture desk access with Internet -based software to allow the news media to download high-resolution images quickly and easily. Contact your local CNW Office to promote your company image. --------------------------------------------------------------------------