PocketMail now available in Canada from RadioShack® Canada and Battery Plus®
September 23nd, 2003
SAN JOSE, Calif., [Sept 23, 2003] - PocketMail Group Limited (ASX:PKT), a leading provider of value-priced world-wide mobile e-mail services, today announced that RadioShackÒ Canada and Battery Plus® have added the PocketMail Composer handheld mobile e-mail device and service to the line of consumer electronic products they retail through their store locations in Canada.
PocketMail is a low-cost, easy-to-use, mobile e-mail service that enables users to send and receive e-mails, fast and reliably, using the handheld PocketMail Composer and virtually any telephone, including cell, cordless and pay phones.
David Marchant, CEO of PocketMail commented, "RadioShack Canada is synonymous with knowledgeable staff, and quality products and services. We are delighted to be partnering with a corporation of such outstanding reputation and the leading retailer of consumer electronics in Canada."
"When you are looking for a retail partner in Canada through which to sell a product and service like PocketMail, you can't do any better than RadioShack® Canada and Battery Plus®," David Marchant added.
RadioShack® and Battery Plus® will be selling the PocketMail Composer handheld mobile e-mail device together with 3 months of unlimited PocketMail mobile e-mail service. PocketMail goes on sales this month (September).
Access to the PocketMail mobile e-mail service is via toll-free number throughout Canada and the United States. No roaming charges apply.
PocketMail mobile e-mail is also available via the Web and on WAP enabled cellular phones.
About PocketMail Inc.
PocketMail Group Limited (ASX:PKT) is a leading provider of value-priced, world-wide mobile e-mail services. The company's services are available locally throughout the United States, Canada, Western Europe and Australia, and internationally from every other country in the world. PocketMail has operations in Sydney, Australia in addition to its US operations in San Jose, California. For more information about PocketMail and its mobile e-mail services, please visit www.pocketmail.com
About RadioShack Canada®
Radio Shack Canada is a division of InterTAN, Inc. (NYSE: ITN; TSX: ITA) which is headquartered in Barrie, Ontario.
RadioShack Canada operates a coast-to-coast network of approximately 500 company operated RadioShack stores, 340 RadioShack dealer outlets, and an on-line store at www.radioshack.ca.
RadioShack Canada has been supplying Canadians with quality products and services for more than 30 years. RadioShack offers a wide range of brand name and private label consumer electronic products that include Communications, Entertainment, Computing, and Game products.
For more information, visit www.radioshack.ca.
About Battery Plus®
Battery Plus is a division of InterTAN, Inc. (NYSE: ITN; TSX: ITA) which is headquartered in Barrie, Ontario.
Acquired by InterTAN, Inc in 2002, Battery Plus is a Canadian retailer of batteries and digital products, and has approximately 40 stores in Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia and Quebec.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contacts:
David Marchant (CEO)
(408) 689-1241
San Jose, California
david.marchant@corp.
pocketmail.com
Richard Shaw (CFO)
+61 2 9955-0500
Sydney, Australia
richard.shaw@pkt.com.au
PR Contact:
Nanci Williams
Orloff/Williams
(408) 293-1791
About PocketMail:
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