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EXHIBIT 99.8 News Release Sprint Canada announces further expansion to local telephone service Company expands local free calling area in Barrie to include calls to Toronto TORONTO, ON, October 25, 2004 Sprint Canada Inc., a subsidiary of Call-Net
Enterprises Inc., announced today that it is now offering local home and
business telephone service to three more municipalities in Ontario  Barrie,
Markham and Richmond Hill. With this expansion, Sprint Canada facilities are
available to approximately 35% of households and businesses across Canada. Residents and businesses in Barrie, Markham and Richmond Hill will now have a
choice when it comes to selecting a provider for their local service, said
Bill Linton, president and chief executive officer, Sprint Canada. In
addition, we have expanded the local calling areas of Barrie to include calls
to numbers in the 416 and 647 area of Toronto. This means that our customers
in Barrie will be able to call Toronto without incurring a long distance
charge. Sprint Canadas home and business phone service offers a comprehensive
selection of features as well as bundles including the wireless bundle. The
basic home phone service starts at $29.95 per month and includes one calling
feature. The home phone service and unlimited North American long distance
bundle is $49.90. There is no fee to change telephone companies. Customers
keep the same phone number and maintain their listing in the phone directory. Sprint Canadas local service is growing at a rate of over 50 per cent per
year, as more and more Canadians become aware of our competitive prices, our
outstanding service and just how easy it is to switch, added Linton. Sprint
Canada is the smarter choice for savvy consumers and growing businesses. To switch to Sprint Canadas home phone service, consumers can call
1-866-JOIN-RED
(1-866-564-6733) or visit the Companys web site at www.sprint.ca. Business
users can call 1-800-496-4401. Call-Net, primarily through its subsidiary Sprint Canada, was one of the first
companies to offer competitive telecommunication services to Canadian consumers
and businesses in 1986. Initially, the company offered long distance services.
Today, the Company provides home phone, wireless, long distance, and IP
services to households, and local, long distance, toll free, enhanced voice,
data and IP services to businesses of all sizes. Through Sprint in the United
States, Sprint Canada offers a seamless North American network to
multi-national organizations. Sprint Canada launched its local home and business service in 1999, greatly
expanding the number of markets in 2001. As of June 30, 2004, Sprint Canada had
activated almost 260,000 local home phone service lines and over 78,000 local
business line equivalents.




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Call-Net Enterprises Inc. and Sprint Canada Inc.
Call-Net Enterprises Inc., (TSX: FON, FON.B) primarily through its wholly owned
subsidiary Sprint Canada Inc., is a leading Canadian integrated communications
solutions provider of home phone, wireless, long distance and IP services to
households, and local, long distance, toll free, enhanced voice, data and IP
services to businesses across Canada. Call-Net, headquartered in Toronto, owns
and operates an extensive national fibre network, has over 151 co-locations in
five major urban areas including 33 municipalities and maintains network
facilities in the United States and the United Kingdom. For more information,
visit www.callnet.ca and www.sprint.ca. Note for Investors:This news release includes statements about expected future events and/or
financial results that are forward-looking in nature and subject to risks and
uncertainties. For those statements, we claim the protection of the safe harbor
for forward-looking statements provisions contained in the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The company cautions that actual performance
will be affected by a number of factors, many of which are beyond the Companys
control. Future events and results may vary substantially from what the Company
currently foresees. Discussion of the various factors that may affect future
results is contained in the Companys recent filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, the Ontario Securities Commission and SEDAR. For further information:
Karen OLeary
416-718-6445
karen.oleary@sprint-canada.com




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Backgrounder Sprint Canada expanding its local home and
business telephone service in Ontario Starting October 25, 2004, Sprint Canada will offer local phone service to
households and businesses in the following municipalities. The exchanges (the
first three numbers in the telephone number, after the area code) that will be
serviced by the new wire centres are listed below.  
    
    Barrie includes local free calling to numbers in the 416 and 647
(Toronto) area codes.
All exchanges listed below are in the 705 area code:  715
    
    725
    
    730
    
    737719
    
    726
    
    733
    
    739720
    
    727
    
    734
    
    792721
    
    728
    
    735
    
    812722  
    
    Markham
All exchanges listed below are in the 905 area code.  201
    
    471205
    
    472209
    
    910294
    
    910  
    
    Richmond Hill
All exchanges listed below are in the 905 area code:  508
    
    780
    
    883737
    
    784
    
    884770
    
    787
    
    918