Mobile electronic devices have become a necessary tool for business professionals and are becoming an increasingly large part of consumers’ everyday life. This shift in communication habits and lifestyle situates TelePlus in a privileged position to take full advantage of the opportunities it involves.

The demand for wireless services and products is growing at a tremendous rate and is expected to remain strong for the foreseeable future as a result of several factors, including:

• Increased awareness of the value of mobility that wireless communication provides
• Emergence of new market segments such as wireless Internet and its future possibilities
• introduction of a range of smaller and lighter phone and devices with longer battery lives
• increasing affordability of wireless usage relative to traditional wired phones
• forthcoming possible applications of 3G technologies such as MP3 and wireless location services

Wireless phones are the among the fastest growing consumer products in history. According to EMC, a leading researcher and publisher of intelligence about wireless markets, there are now more than 1 billion wireless phone subscribers worldwide. EMC estimates that by 2005, 50% of all calls in the world will be wireless.

By year-end 2005, more than half of all Canadians will be mobile phone customers. Canadians currently use more than 15 million wireless devices on a daily basis, including 12 million wireless phones, more than 1.8 million pagers, 1 million mobile radios and 10,000 mobile satellite phones. Next we provide a quick overview of some of the wireless markets and products that TelePlus serves in Canada.