INTERFAX Wins Analyst's Award.

CALGARY, Alberta--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 10, 1999--

Interprovincial Satellite Services Ltd. (Alberta Stock Exchange:ISS.) ("INTERSAT"), and its wholly owned subsidiary Interfax Communications Ltd., are pleased to announce that their industry-leading INTERFAX service was recently named 1999's "Most Innovative Internet Fax Service" at the Analyst Choice Awards held at the FaxDirections/Messaging World '99 conference hosted by renowned fax industry analyst, Pete Davidson.

The INTERFAX service is available today on a North American basis through INTERFAX selected channel partners, including AT&T Canada in Alberta, and through INTERFAX offices in Calgary, Toronto, and San Francisco. INTERFAX provides an interface to standard fax machines to facilitate secure delivery of fax machine traffic over the internet, rather than through traditional long distance phone lines. It is targeted to deliver significant cost reduction to corporations and to lead the migration of fax traffic to internet/IP. INTERFAX service is available for a small flat monthly fee, is simple to install, and requires no change to user fax procedures and no complementary technology at the receiving fax machine. Further information can be found at www.interfax.ca.

INTERSAT, together with INTERFAX, is a leading developer and value-added provider, through its offices in Calgary, Toronto, Amsterdam, and San Francisco, of global fax and data network services to industry, using wireless and internet as communications media. INTERFAX services are recognized as leading the internet fax industry in the area of fax machine-originating transmissions, which comprises nearly 90 percent of the world's fax traffic. The INTERFAX service is targeted at an estimated installed base of over 100 million fax machines globally, a market which is growing at approximately 20 percent per year.

Pete Davidson is president of Davidson Consulting and program manager for the IDC Facsimile Continuous Information Service. Davidson Consulting, formed in 1992, provides information services that focus on facsimile, but extend to encompass a range of fax-related topics, including unified messaging, IP telephony, document management and multifunctional fax systems. Davidson Consulting publishes a daily newsletter FaxWire, hosts an annual industry conference, FaxDirections/Messaging World, provides custom consulting, and is allied with IDC and Buyer's Lab. Davidson is allied with International Data Corporation (IDC) of Framingham, MA, to provide fax market research and consulting services. As the program manager for the IDC Facsimile Continuous Information Service, Davidson produces annual reports on fax machines and fax MFPs, enhanced and IP-based fax services, computer-based fax servers and systems, Internet fax, and fax traffic patterns. With Buyer's Laboratory (Hackensack, NJ), the leading independent office equipment testing lab and newsletter publisher, Davidson writes the FAXreporter newsletter and also wrote a fax industry 'best-seller,' Hidden Fax Costs & Secrets to Savings. As a consultant, market researcher and journalist, Pete Davidson has tracked the fax industry since 1984. Moreover, throughout the 1980s, working with market research houses including IDC, Davidson developed more than 60 white papers and market research and consulting reports on a diverse range of topics including private corporate networks, bridge and router markets, computer-integrated telephony, RBOC equipment markets, PBXs, IBM data communications strategies, LAN reseller trends, electronic mail, printers, image processing, OCR, and PCs.

The Alberta Stock Exchange has neither approved nor disapproved the information contained herein.