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Fidelity Information Services Selects Q9 Networks to Provide IT Infrastructure for a Low Risk, Lower Cost Comprehensive Mortgage Administration Solution

Toronto, ON. -- November 22, 2004 -- Q9 Networks Inc. (TSX:Q), a leading Canadian provider of outsourced Internet infrastructure and related managed services, is pleased to announce it has been selected by Fidelity Information Services ("Fidelity"), a division of Fidelity National Financial, Inc. (NYSE:FNF), to provide a complete, managed hosting environment for their new end-to-end mortgage administration solution. Through Q9, Fidelity will provide the Canadian marketplace with a low cost, low risk alternative for comprehensive real estate lending processing.

Under the terms of the multi-year deal, the primary solution will be hosted in Q9's downtown Toronto data centre with a disaster recovery site located in Q9's data centre in Calgary, Alberta. Q9 is providing a combination of physical space and managed services including: bandwidth, firewalls and Virtual Private Networks (VPNs).

Fidelity Information Services provides a cost-effective and flexible solution for managing an entire portfolio of residential credit products including home equity line of credit, and will provide straight through processing from initial customer inquiry through to loan discharge. The new ASP offering provides a variable transaction-fee model, thus further reducing capital cost for financial institutions and making the cost of the combined solution fully variable in nature.

"We chose Q9 Networks to host our solution because they meet the same high and consistent quality standards as our own US data centres," said Jim Manfuso, Executive Vice President of Fidelity Information Services. "By outsourcing the processing infrastructure to Q9, Canadian lenders of any size will experience an exceptional level of reliability and security and improve their speed to market, all with minimal risk and a lower cost structure," said Manfuso.

Q9 offers an integrated portfolio of solutions that provides customers with a scalable, secure and highly reliable platform for the development, deployment and proactive management of mission-critical Internet operations. Q9 services are delivered from high-security data centres engineered for maximum reliability. All Q9 and customer systems are monitored from a Q9 Network Operations Centre (NOC) 24 hours a day, seven days a week. NOC experts are also available to customers on an around-the-clock basis to resolve issues and provide advice.

"We are delighted to have been selected by such a prestigious partner," says Osama Arafat, CEO, Q9 Networks. "As one of the world's largest providers of processing services to financial institutions and the mortgage services industry, Fidelity Information Systems clearly understands the Q9 value proposition. This win validates the considerable investments we've made in our data centres and demonstrates that in Canada, Q9 remains the vendor of choice for tier-one companies in the financial services sector."

About Fidelity National Financial
Fidelity National Financial, Inc., number 262 on the Fortune 500, is a provider of products and outsourced services and solutions to financial institutions and the real estate industry. The Company had total revenue of more than $7.7 billion and earned more than $860 million in 2003, with cash flow from operations of nearly $1.3 billion for that same period. FNF is a leading provider of information-based technology solutions and processing services to financial institutions and the mortgage and financial services industries through its subsidiary Fidelity Information Services, Inc. Fidelity Information Services' software processes nearly 50 percent of all U. S. residential mortgages, it has processing and technology relationships with 45 of the top 50 U. S. banks and has clients in more than 50 countries who rely on its processing and outsourcing products and services.

Additionally, FNF is the nation's largest title insurance company and also provides other real estate-related services such as escrow, flood and tax certifications with life of loan monitoring, merged credit reporting, property valuations and appraisals, default management, relocation services, flood, homeowners and home warranty insurance, exchange intermediary services, mortgage loan aggregation and fulfillment, multiple listing services software, mortgage loan origination software, collateral scoring analytics and real property data. More information about the FNF family of companies can be found at www.fnf.com and www.fidelityinfoservices.com.

This press release contains statements related to future events and expectations and, as such, constitutes forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to be different from those expressed or implied above. The Company expressly disclaims any duty to update or revise forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties which forward-looking statements are subject to include, but are not limited to, the effect of governmental regulations, the economy, competition and other risks detailed from time to time in the "Management's Discussion and Analysis" section of the Company's Form 10-K and other reports and filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

About Q9 Networks
Q9 Networks is a leading Canadian provider of outsourced Internet infrastructure and related managed services. Q9's data centres and network are backed by an industry leading SLA which guarantees 100% network and power availability. Q9 managed services, including: bandwidth, dedicated servers, firewalls, load balancing, virtual private networking (VPN) and back-up/restore, enable the rapid provisioning and scalability of client infrastructure.

Forward Looking Statements
Forward-looking statements in this press release are not guarantees and are based upon current expectations, involve risks and uncertainties associated with Q9's business and the economic environment in which the business operates. Should one or more of the risks and uncertainties materialize or should the underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results or events may differ materially from current expectations. Therefore, Q9 cautions you not to place undue reliance upon any such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are based on management's beliefs and opinions at the time the statements are made, and Q9 does not undertake any obligations to update forward-looking statements should circumstances or management's beliefs or opinions change.

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