Inukshuk Celebrates E-Learning Partnerships in Western and Northern Canada.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 5, 2004

Broadband wireless company, Inukshuk Internet Inc., today hosted an event at the British Columbia Institute of Technology, with a number of partners and invited guests in attendance. The event was held to celebrate eight innovative learning projects from western and northern Canada, to which Inukshuk has committed nearly $500,000 under its Learning Plan. These public/private partnerships are focused on the development of new multimedia, feature-rich content, covering a wide range of topics and interests. They are designed to ultimately be delivered via high-speed Internet access.

"Inukshuk is proud to be part of this unique public/private sector collaboration," said Andre Tremblay, President and CEO of Inukshuk. "Our Learning Plan was created to offer long-term, mutually beneficial partnerships with learning communities, and to help answer requirements for on-line learning content. With today's event, and our recent launch of commercial services in Yellowknife, Iqaluit and yesterday in Richmond, B.C., Inukshuk continues to deliver on its vision and promise."

Representatives from various projects were on hand at the event to present the content they have developed. The various projects by region are as follows:

British Columbia

-- Canadian Design + Craft-History + Theory, from the Emily Carr

Institute of Art + Design

-- Doing IT Right!, from the Vancouver School Board

-- Emergency Assessment and Management of Individuals With a

Suspected or Confirmed Spinal Injury Web-Based Training

Program, from the British Columbia Institute of Technology

-- Multimedia Enhancements for Primary (K-3) Distance Education

Learners, from the Open Learning Agency

-- Reaction Kinetics-Virtual Lab, from British Columbia Institute

of Technology

Alberta and Northwest Territories

-- Reading Strategically Using Online Multimedia Learning

Objects, from the Calgary Board of Education (Chinook 

College), Aurora College and the Government of the Northwest

Territories

-- Surveillance Module for NICE-Network for Infection Control

Epidemiology, from the University of Calgary and Memorial

University of Newfoundland

Nunavut

-- Inuktitut Learning Video, from Usqiq Communications Inc.

Launched in 2001, Inukshuk's Learning Plan is the result of extensive consultation across the country, carried out to identify the needs and priorities of learners. It aims to answer requirements for on-line learning content in three specific ways: Connectedness, Content and Continuity. Inukshuk has established a Partnership Committee in each of its licensed service areas to provide direction and guidance on projects.

About Inukshuk Internet

Inukshuk Internet Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Microcell Telecommunications Inc. (TSX: MT), a Canadian provider of Personal Communications Services (PCS) under the Fido(R) brand name.

Inukshuk Internet was granted licences from Industry Canada for Multipoint Communications Systems (MCS) spectrum in the 2500 to 2596 MHz frequency band, to build a unique, "last mile" broadband wireless access network. The licences cover a population of some 30 million people, comprising all the provinces and territories of Canada, with the exception of Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

In February 2004, Inukshuk announced the deployment of the MCS network in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories and Iqaluit, Nunavut, with partners SSI Micro and Nunanet Worldwide Communications. On March 4, Inukshuk Internet announced the commercial deployment, in Richmond, B.C., of a new venture with Allstream Inc. and NR Communications, LLC to further expedite and extend MCS network deployment.

For more information, visit www.inukshuk.ca and www.microcell.ca.

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