BURNABY, BC – Oct. 9,2001 /PRNewswire/ — The Electric Mail Company Inc. (the "The Electric Mail Company") (CDNX:ELE), a developer and aggregator of "outsource-able" messaging and e-mail services, is pleased to announce that Seattle-based Slingshot Communications Inc. ("Slingshot", http://dialup.slingshot.com ) has been authorized as an Enterprise Partner with The Electric Mail Company. Slingshot’s prepaid Internet access solution, modeled after prepaid phone cards, will now include privately branded WebMail accounts powered by The Electric Mail Company. Slingshot’s national retail partners include Staples, CompUSA, and Radio Shack, as well as selected 7-Eleven and Fred Meyer Stores.

"We are very excited about our ground-level relationship with Slingshot, a pioneer in the prepaid Internet access market," said Ian McDonald, Vice President Sales for The Electric Mail Company. "With the intense adoption rate of prepaid communication services, both at the consumer and retail channel levels, Slingshot represents a tremendous growth opportunity for The Electric Mail Company and provides us with an additional and immediate U.S. revenue stream."

Slingshot’s business model is very similar to the prepaid long distance and prepaid cellular businesses in the areas of marketing, financial modeling, channel development and customer demographics. However, unlike its competitors and other companies trying to enter the prepaid Internet market, Slingshot has extensive experience in consumer software development and building secure, reliable, scalable data centers. Furthermore, Slingshot delivers high quality Customer Support for their pre-paid products.

"Given that e-mail is the number one application on the Internet, we wanted to partner with the most knowledgeable experts in the field to help us develop this important value-added component of our offering," said Kelly Prime, Product Manager for Slingshot. "Slingshot prides itself on providing a highly secure, reliable, compatible and easy-to-use service. We chose Electric Mail because they were able to meet our high service standards and deliver a very cost effective outsourced solution."

About Slingshot
Slingshot Communications is a prepaid technology and application service provider. Slingshot’s mission is to become the recognized pioneer in prepaid Internet products and stored value services. The initial Slingshot product is an inexpensive, toll-free, prepaid Internet access CD that allows a user to get on the Internet in four steps and less than two minutes.

About The Electric Mail Company Inc.
E-mail. Any way you want. As an Application Services Provider ("ASP"), The Electric Mail Company Inc. (CDNX:ELE) specializes in outsourcing integrated messaging, e-mail and complementary Internet communication services and support. Within its core messaging offerings the company provides virus-scanning, message filtering and unified messaging. Providing robust and feature-rich solutions directly to business since 1994, The Electric Mail Company has evolved its award-winning offerings into a comprehensive portfolio of services to be sold in partnership with wireless industry participants, ASP aggregators, telco’s, Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs), consulting firms and web-hosting and management companies. For more information visit http://www.electricmail.com.

The Canadian Venture Exchange has not reviewed and does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

SOURCE The Electric Mail Company Inc.

Copyright © 2000-2005 Slingshot Communications Inc.