BRANCHEZ-VOUS! wireless launched in collaboration with Bell Mobility
Montréal, April 9, 2001 -- BRANCHEZ-VOUS!, the leading French-language network of Web sites in America, launches a portal for mobile surfers on the Bell Mobility network, North America's leading provider of wireless Internet services. Known as BRANCHEZ-VOUS! wireless, this portal can be accessed today, at the Web and Email section of the Bell Mobility Mobile Browser MC main menu.BRANCHEZ-VOUS! wireless gives access to MonCourrier.com, the primary free e-mail service in Québec boasting over 400,000 registered users. It also provides access to specialized news over wireless services and to a variety of Internet sites suggested by Webinette, the Web mistress. The services available at BRANCHEZ-VOUS! wireless will be enhanced over the coming months.
"As is the case on our network of sites, we now offer the best of the Internet to mobile phone users," explains François Boulet, Vice-President of Content and Services at BRANCHEZ-VOUS!
"In addition to increasing the array of applications designed for francophone users, making BRANCHEZ-VOUS! and MonCourrier.com available on the Mobile Browser allows us to reach young customers who are big fans of the new technologies," comments Marie-Camille Blais, associate director-wireless Internet and data, Bell Mobility.
About BRANCHEZ-VOUS! Inc.
BRANCHEZ-VOUS! operates the leading portal for French-speaking users in North America. Based in Montréal, it operates a network of over 40 sites which gathers more than 30 million page views per month for advertisers and their advertising agencies, and which, according to a MediaMetrix Canada survey in January 2001, attracts over 750,000 home-based French Canadian users. BRANCHEZ-VOUS! also operates the MicroSun.ca e-commerce Web site, which sells computer equipment, software, games and electronic products across Canada. BRANCHEZ-VOUS! shares trade on the CDNX exchange under the BZV trading symbol.
For additional information, visit the company's Web site at:
www.branchez-vous.com/inc/english
About Bell Mobility
The Bell Mobility Inc. family of companies provides a complete range of wireless communications solutions - cellular, paging, two-way messaging, data, PCS and airline passenger communications services - to more than 3 million Canadian customers. Bell Mobility Radio provides two-way voice and wireless data services to public safety and emergency services agencies. Bell Mobility Inc. is a division of Bell Canada. For more information on Bell Mobility, visit the website at http://www.bellmobility.ca
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Media Information:
Patrick Pierra
President, BRANCHEZ-VOUS!
(514) 842-3838 ext. 249
ppierra@branchez-vous.com
Marie-Eve Savard
Media Relations, Bell Canada
(514) 391-2007
1 877 391-2007
marie-eve.savard@bell.ca
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