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Consolidated Fastfrate Enters Full Implementation Phase with BSM's SentinelFM Vehicle Tracking Solution

Woodbridge, Ontario CANADA, July 05, 2006

BSM Technologies Inc. (GPS - TSX Venture), (http://www.bsmtechnologies.com) a leading provider of secure vehicle and trailer fleet management, high security vehicle tracking and surveillance solutions, today announced that Consolidated Fastfrate, which had previously been identified in a January 2006 press release as a "major Toronto GTA-based national transportation company", has now committed to the Canada-wide implementation of BSM's "SentinelFM" vehicle tracking and locating application. This includes divisions in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and Montreal. This will translate into 300 plus installations within the Consolidated Fastfrate Group.

Based on a successful pilot project in January and the subsequent  implementation of an initial 53 "SentinelFM" units in the GTA,  there was an immediate realization of benefits to Fastfrate derived from BSM's "SentinelFM" solution. Consolidated Fastfrate is now moving ahead with Vancouver and other major cities during the balance of 2006 for a fleet of over 300 tractor units. Fastfrate has developed their own dispatch system. Data is captured through BSM's "B2B XML SOAP" interface for immediate position updates and other relevant data from their fleet.

"With the BSM integration tools provided during the development and pilot phase, the implementation of BSM's "SentinelFM" tracking on Fastfrate's entire GTA fleet, Fastfrate realized the many ROI benefits and efficiencies for improving customer service through knowledge and responsiveness and detailed reporting to aid in fuel savings for the transportation company. As a Web-based ASP solution, benefits include fuel savings, no infrastructure costs, accuracy, speed of data retrieval and robust reporting over the web," said Michael Bookbinder, Director Sales for Telus at BSM Wireless.

Bookbinder, continued, "The Toronto region-Head Office had initially implemented BSM'S "SentinelFM"  units on their entire Toronto pickup and delivery fleet that included onboard and portable units for broker vehicles. Fastfrate is now able to meet the Company's mission statement by providing fast, efficient and innovative customer service with performance level improvements across Canada."

"BSM Wireless provided Fastfrate with all of the integration tools necessary to integrate with our newly developed dispatch system.  Their support was pivotal to ensure that the integration process went smoothly and the outcome was successful. Fastfrate has made a significant investment in building the dispatch system and it was very important to us to select the right technology partner in order to move forward with our Canada-wide implementation. We are highly confident with our decision to go with BSM", said Ahmet Taran, Director of IT at Consolidated Fastfrate.

"Fastfrate is very pleased with the performance of the BSM "SentinelFM" solution and we are now realizing the many benefits previously identified by BSM Wireless team. The efficiency, performance, speed and accuracy of the BSM AVL (Automatic Vehicle Security and Tracking) solution over the Telus Mobility network has enabled Fastfrate to achieve its goals and objectives from our AVL initiative. BSM was able to achieve all of the performance criteria for our operations and integration as had been established for the implementation, all of which improves our ROI," said Leonard Wyss, VP and CFO of Fastfrate.

"BSM offered and listened to what Fastfrate required which led to BSM being an instrumental partner in the development and implementation of the integrated dispatch system. Consolidated Fastfrate has now committed to implement BSM's "SentinelFM" solution across Canada with over 300 units on their roadmap. HTS Communications would like to thank everyone at BSM for creating a credible and flexible working relationship between the Fastfrate and BSM teams to meet the needs of our client," stated Jay Cooke of HTS Communications. HTS Communications is a full service authorized dealer for Telus Mobility specializing in Major Accounts throughout Canada.

About Consolidated Fastfrate
Fastfrate is a privately-owned Canadian company with over 1600 full-time employees that transport in excess of 2 billion pounds of LTL freight each year in different major centres of Canada. Individual transportation needs drive Fastfrate to customize methods of moving customer's products effectively and efficiently. These challenges mean that our employees are the best resource for innovative ideas. The Fastfrate vision is to provide customers with complete shipment solutions. It's Fastfrate's job to harness the synergy created by our customers, our employees and our vision so we can obtain a leadership position in the North American transportation industry."

About BSM Technologies (GPS:TSX-V) (http://www.bsmtechnologies.com)

BSM Technologies designs, manufactures and markets a comprehensive line of AVSL (Automatic Vehicle Security and Tracking) solutions for Fleet Management, Law Enforcement, and Consumer Vehicle Protection, through its subsidiary BSM Wireless. The BSM line of products range from Fleet Management and Consumer Vehicle Protection offerings to the full featured ''Stinger'' product featured in news media worldwide as the key technology behind the Bait and Covert application used by hundreds of Law Enforcement agencies to deter vehicular, trailer and heavy equipment theft.

Superior functionality, seamless switching between 2 separate footprints, enhanced reliability, advanced security features, and excellent value characterize BSM products. By incorporating advanced wireless locating and mapping technology, and IP-based communications protocols, the BSM line of products provides sophisticated real-time monitoring and control of commercial and personal vehicle assets to meet the demanding needs and stringent requirements of today's mobile environments. BSM's unique end-to-end solutions, features sophisticated wireless hardware, firmware and software all developed by and proprietary to BSM. The BSM product line can be easily adapted and customized to match any customer user requirement while BSM's in-house support infrastructure assures that all clients receive the premium AVSL solution in the industry to meet their needs.



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Investor Relations
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lmalcolm@bsmwireless.com

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