SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ Tricom, S.A. (OTC Pink Sheets: TRICY — News) today announced that it has entered into a partnership agreement with BEC Telecom, S.A. (BEC-TEL) to provide remote rural and urban communities in the Dominican Republic with convenient, cost- effective access to telecommunication services through the deployment of a wireless public payphone system.

BEC-TEL has been awarded a contract by the Dominican government to deliver and install more than 1,700 latest generation wireless payphones in rural areas of the Dominican Republic, underserved by wireless and landline phone systems, at a total cost of approximately $6.4 million. Through its telecommunications switching facilities in the United States and the Dominican Republic, Tricom will help provide the origination, transport and termination of local, domestic and international long distance traffic, as well as provide on-going network maintenance and support services.

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By Stephen Lawson
Network infrastructure maker UTStarCom Inc. says it has figured out a way to keep local cell phone calls local -- even over enterprise LANs. The Alameda, California, company announced on Monday a set of products that bypass the traditional long-distance wired circuits used as backhaul for traditional cellular networks. Instead, it will let them go over IP (Internet protocol) data connections. The technology allows carriers to bring service to remote, unserved communities and allows enterprises to use the «free» bandwidth on their LANs for calls within a campus, according to Jack Mar, president of UTStarCom’s CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) division.

The MovingMedia 2000 product line makes up an infrastructure in which calls travel directly from the base station onto an IP packet network. That gets the mobile operator’s call traffic off the expensive long-distance leased lines they use today between cities and lets the operator consolidate network elements. The result for the operator can be vastly lower operating expenses, according to Mar.

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TORONTO, /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ Effective, Wednesday, November
17, 2004, Call-Net Enterprises Inc.’s non-voting stock symbol code on the
Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) will change from FON.B to FON.NV.B.

The addition of the ’NV’ represents a ’non-voting issue’. The TSX is
renaming stock symbols for shares with non-conventional voting structures to
bring additional clarity to the differences between various types of
securities that trade on this exchange.

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