Released on August 29, 1997
Municipal Government Minister Carol Teichrob today officially opened
the SaskTel Business Center at the John G. Diefenbaker Airport in
Saskatoon.
"The SaskTel Business Center will offer today's business traveller a
facility and advanced communications services unmatched by any other
Canadian airport," Teichrob said. "The center will showcase SaskTel
and Saskatchewan's position on the leading edge of communications
development and customer service."
"Through the center, SaskTel will offer travellers the essentials of
today's business world - the computer, the telephone and the copier,"
Garry Simons, SaskTel group vice-president Operations, said. "They
will have quick and immediate access to everything from pay phones and
fax machines, to cellular phones and the Internet."
Initially, the services offered at the SaskTel Business center are:
Millennium Pay phones; a QuickChange Stored Value Card Vending
Machine; a Canon coin-operated copier; a Canon facsimile and SaskTel
Mobility Cellular rental. The center also provides limited access to
the Internet, through Sympatico Internet service, as well as a
demonstration of SimpliCity Interactive Services. SaskTel's business
partners in the center are Danka Business Systems and Advantage
Cellular Systems.
"The airport is very pleased and fortunate to be working with
SaskTel to provide such a first-class facility," Bill Restall,
manager, John G. Diefenbaker Airport said. "We feel that the
SaskTel Business Center will give the travelling public the wide
variety of business services they have requested. We keep being
asked when it will be opening, which just reinforces the need and
expectation for this type of facility."
"During our recent public hearings, one thing our government
heard was that Saskatchewan Crown Corporations must not only
expand outside our provincial borders, but also continue to
invest in Saskatchewan," Teichrob said. "This center is an
investment in Saskatoon and in Saskatchewan."
SaskTel is the leading full service communications company in
Saskatchewan, providing voice, data, internet, text and messaging
services over a fiber optic-based, 100 per cent digital network,
as well as cellular, paging and FleetNet 800 service through its
SaskTel Mobility division.
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For more information, contact:
Sean Caragata
General Manager, Corporate Affairs
SaskTel
Regina
Phone: (306) 777-4105