Canada's Fido Chases Wireless Internet.(Company Business and Marketing)

Wireless Week, May, 2000 by Careless, James

OTTAWA--Francois-Charles Sirois is a man with a mission that may not be impossible but definitely is ambitious. Microcell Telecommunications has tapped the 25-year-old son of Charles Sirois--Microcell's chairman--as president and COO of Microcell i5 Inc., the company's new wireless Internet subsidiary.

With i5--the latest in a series of Microcell's Internet-related ventures--the younger Sirois' job is to create a wireless portal for users of the company's "Fido" GSM service, providing a Web site where subscribers can customize settings for e-mail, news and weather that can then be received on their Fido handsets. Sirois' goal? To extend into the wireless Internet environment the "sense of community" that Microcell believes already binds Fido's...

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