OREM, Utah (BUSINESS WIRE) Oct. 5, 2005 Q Comm International, Inc. (Amex: QMM; QMM.WS), a provider of prepaid transaction processing and electronic point-of-sale (POS) distribution solutions, today announced a contract with Check$mart to install the Q Xpress 200™ POS terminal at over 170 locations nationwide. Check$mart, based in Dublin, Ohio, operates 172 payday loan and check cashing stores throughout Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Virginia, Florida, Utah and Arizona. Q Comm expects to complete the store roll out in the fourth quarter of 2005.

Under the terms of the contact, Check$mart will be able to provide Q Comm’s suite of leading prepaid products to check cashing and payday loan customers, enhancing recurring customer traffic and adding value at the point of sale. Selling prepaid services on demand via the Q Xpress 200™ terminal allows Check$mart to avoid problems associated with traditional prepaid cards, such as theft, inventory costs and stock outages. Check$mart can also benefit from Q Comm’s online sales reporting tools, which provide employee-level sales reporting.

Michael Keough, President and Chief Executive Officer of Q Comm International, said «Today’s announcement reflects our concerted effort to expand Q Comm’s presence at leading retailers like Check$mart. We are particularly excited about partnering with an alternative financial products retailer, since our respective target audiences are the same.»

Kyle Hanson, Director of Store Operations of Check$mart, states «We are excited to partner with Q Comm because their prepaid products add value for our customers. Additionally, Q Comm’s technology allows us to provide customized prepaid products with no hassle or upfront inventory costs.»

ABOUT. Q. COMM INTERNATIONAL:

Q Comm International is a prepaid transaction processor that electronically distributes prepaid products from service providers to the point of sale. Q Comm offers proprietary prepaid transaction processing platforms, support of various point-of-sale (POS) terminals, product management, merchandising, customer support and engineering. Q Comm systems replace traditional hard cards (also known as scratch cards or vouchers) that are costly to distribute, and provide more comprehensive reporting and inventory management among other benefits. Q Comm’s solutions are currently used by wireless carriers or mobile operators, telecom distributors, and various retailers to sell a wide range of prepaid products and services including prepaid wireless, prepaid phone cards, prepaid dial tone and prepaid debit cards. Visit www.qcomm.com for more information.

Statements made in this press release are forward-looking and are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from those set forth in these statements. The economic, competitive, governmental, technological and other factors identified in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2003, may cause actual results or events to differ materially from those described in the forward looking statements in this press release. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether because of new information, future events, or otherwise.

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Comprehensive HealthCare Solutions, Inc. is pleased to announce that it has signed a contract with A-1 Printing of Brooklyn, NY. A-1 Printing, one of the largest privately owned producers of prepaid telephone cards, prints approximately 100 million such cards per year.

The agreement authorizes A-1 Printing to attach Comprehensive’s discount prescription card -- as a free gift -- to approximately 10 million prepaid telephone cards distributed throughout the United States. The majority of prepaid telephone cards sold are used by people residing in the United States who still have family and friends in their countries of origin. A-1 Printing currently produces prepaid phone cards in a variety of foreign languages, marketing to individuals from such areas as Latin America, India, Pakistan, the Caribbean, and various other countries.

Paul Rothman, President of Comprehensive HealthCare Solutions, Inc. said, «We believe that this business alliance offers us the opportunity to put our competitive discount prescription card in the hands of ten million potential users, a vast majority of whom we believe are in large part either uninsured, underinsured or have no Rx coverage whatsoever. We believe that this could translate to a fairly high utilization rate and, in turn, would result in a potentially lucrative revenue stream that was not part of the Company’s original business model. This, added to our other contracts, makes our projected revenue growth for fiscal 2006–2007 look even brighter.»

Mr. David Kaufman, Owner of A-1 Printing said, «This business arrangement, offering Comprehensive’s free discount Rx card, will both greatly enhance vendor and customer loyalty and help increase our business. People today need to have a mechanism to buy their prescriptions on a less costly basis.»

Forward-Looking Statements

The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides a «safe harbor» for forward-looking statements. This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding the intent, belief or current expectations of the Company and members of its senior management team. While the Company believes that its expectations are based on reasonable assumptions within the bounds of its knowledge of its business and operations, prospective investors are cautioned that any such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance, and involve risks and uncertainties, and that actual results may differ materially from those contemplated by such forward-looking statements. Factors that would cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated within this press release include but are not limited to, those associated with general business conditions; client concentration; dependence on network providers; the timely and efficient implementation of customer contracts; developments in health care reform and other regulatory issues and changes in laws and regulations in key states where the Company operates; future capitol needs; control by directors and officers; and the loss of key management personnel. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this release. The Company disclaims any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements contained herein to reflect events or circumstances occurring after the date of this release or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.

ATLANTA, Oct. 3 /PRNewswire/ BellSouth today announced that it has increased e-mail storage capacity to 250MB at no additional cost for select small business and consumer broadband customers.

Beginning this month, residential customers of BellSouth(R) FastAccess(R) DSL Ultra (downstream speeds up to 1.5Mbps) and BellSouth(R) FastAccess(R) DSL Xtreme (downstream speeds up to 3Mbps), as well as business customers who utilize those similar speeds, will have 250MB of storage for each of their available e-mail accounts(1). This reflects an increase of more than 10 times the e-mail storage previously offered to each account.

«BellSouth is providing customers with additional space they might need to store more e-mails, attachments, photos and video,» said Pam Jones, vice president of data product management for BellSouth. «As our customers’ needs evolve, BellSouth will continue to consistently provide them with the best value for Internet service.»

The company’s latest move to increase customers’ e-mail space is one of several recent initiatives to enhance customers’ high-speed Internet experiences:

- Earlier this year, BellSouth introduced Video Chat through Instant Messenger, through which customers can engage in live streaming video conversations via their instant messaging services. — In July, BellSouth launched BellSouth(R) Internet Security Service, featuring a host of security applications designed to help keep residential and small business customers safe while online and their PCs free of spyware, viruses and tracking cookies. — BellSouth announced in August that customers who purchase a FastAccess Business DSL product may be eligible to receive a free new domain name and custom email account, such as sales@mygrowingbusiness.com (in addition to the fifteen standard email accounts they currently receive with their purchase).

«This is a great time to purchase FastAccess DSL,» Jones said. «We offer a range of broadband services that allows customers to choose the right speed at the right price, with the right applications to meet their needs.»

BellSouth offers FastAccess DSL for both consumer and business customers. Consumers and businesses interested in BellSouth(R) FastAccess(R) DSL Internet service can find more information online at [ >>> ] or by calling 1–888–321-ADSL.

About BellSouth Corporation

BellSouth Corporation is a Fortune 100 communications company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. BellSouth has joint control and 40 percent ownership of Cingular Wireless, the nation’s largest wireless voice and data provider with 51.6 million customers.

Backed by award winning customer service, BellSouth offers the most comprehensive and innovative package of voice and data services available in the market. Through BellSouth Answers(R), residential and small business customers can bundle their local and long distance service with dial-up and high-speed DSL Internet access, satellite television and Cingular(R) Wireless service. For businesses, BellSouth provides secure, reliable local and long distance voice and data networking solutions. BellSouth also offers online and directory advertising through BellSouth(R) RealPages.com(R) and The Real Yellow Pages(R).

BellSouth believes that diversity and fostering an inclusive environment are critical in maintaining a competitive advantage in today’s global marketplace. More information about BellSouth can be found at [ >>> ]

(1) FastAccess DSL Ultra and FastAccess DSL Xtreme customers receive eight

e-mail boxes; FastAccess DSL Business customers receive 15 e-mail boxes. BellSouth

Web site: [ >>> ]

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Sydney: Friday September 30: Cardcall Pty Ltd (www.cardcall.com.au) , Australia largest phone card distributor with monthly sales of over $7 million, announced today that it had reached — and surpassed — a 1 billion minute milestone in voice traffic within last 12 months.

Cardcall is the Phone Card division of fast growing Australian Broadband and VoIP provider Telecorp Limited.

«This impressive milestone was reached in August this year and covers the period to Sept 2005,» a delighted Telecorp CEO Steve Picton said today. «It is even more pleasing when you consider that only Cardcall products within Australia have been included and not New Zealand where we launched recently and already have a significant market share.»

«The total number of voice traffic minutes was 1,025,722,859 as at September 15 this year,» Mr. Picton said, «and we are growing at around 30% a year.»

Telecorp Limited recently announced it will link its just launched VoIP Internet phone service, GOTalk Broadband Voice, with its market leading Cardcall pre and post paid phone card range enabling home phone users — especially those with phone addicted teenage children — to access rates 30–50% below standard Telstra phone charges.

Telecorp is the only phone company in Australia which currently offers both phone cards and VoIP Internet phones as part of its range of services – and therefore is the only company that can link both. It can also bundle its Broadband and VoIP services onto a single invoice.

Media interviews can be arranged by contacting Terry Quinn on 0439 710 418 or or go to www.gotalk.com.au

Stephen Picton CEO Telecorp Limited PROFILE:

Prior to forming TELECORP LIMITED with high profile Chairman Trevor Rowe, (also Rothschild Chairman, ASX Director and Chancellor of Bond University), Mr Stephen Picton, was Group Director, Strategic Development, AAPT. During his years with AAPT Mr Picton was responsible for the overall Strategic Development of AAPT since joining as Director of Marketing in 1996. During that period he oversaw a number of key initiatives, such as AAPT’s entry into the Wholesale market, the development of a broad-based product portfolio and the rebranding of the company. He also managed AAPT’s IPO process and the many acquisitions and alliances carried out by AAPT in areas such as data, Internet, satellite, mobile and voice services. Prior to joining AAPT, Mr Picton spent 9 years with BT (British Telecom) in a variety of Sales & Business Development roles at a senior executive level.

CardCall is Australia’s most successful pre and post paid phone card operator, selling in excess of 300,000 new phone cards worth more than $7 million each month to the mainly youth/student/traveller and ethnic markets via 30,000 retailers (including $2million a month from free standing eftpos kiosks, mostly on university campuses) — and is growing at over 30% a year.

ATLANTA, /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ BellSouth Corporation (NYSE:BLS) today announced that Mark Feidler has been named chief operating officer, effective Jan. 1, 2005. Also effective Jan. 1, Dick Anderson, currently president-Customer Markets, has been named vice chairman-planning and administration, and Isaiah (Ike) Harris, has been named president- BellSouth Advertising & Publishing Group. Feidler, Anderson, Harris, Ron Dykes, chief financial officer, and Marc Gary, general counsel, will report directly to Duane Ackerman, chairman and chief executive officer.

"BellSouth has long been recognized as having one of the strongest management teams in the telecom industry," said Ackerman. "By giving our senior executives broad experience in all areas of our business, we continue to develop their leadership abilities and management skills, to the benefit of our customers, shareholders and employees."
Feidler Named Chief Operating Officer.

Mark Feidler joined BellSouth in 1991 as director of strategic transactions. In 1993, he was promoted to vice president of corporate development for BellSouth Corp., and was named president of Interconnection Services three years later. In 1998, he was appointed president of BellSouth Mobility, Inc. In 2001, he was named chief operating officer for Cingular Wireless, a position he held until January 2004, when he was named chief staff officer for BellSouth.

Reporting to Feidler will be Fran Dramis, chief information, eCommerce and security officer; Jan Funderburg, president-Consumer Services; Margaret Greene, president-regulatory and external affairs; Rod Odom, president-Network Services; David Scobey, president-Small Business Services; and Fred Shaftman, president-BellSouth Business.
Keith Cowan, currently president-BellSouth Interconnection Services, will also report to Feidler as president-marketing and product development. Reporting to Cowan will be Donna Lee, chief marketing officer, and Paulino Barros, vice president-product development and management. Barros is currently president of BellSouth's Latin American operations.
Rex Adams will replace Cowan as president of Interconnection Services, reporting to Rod Odom. Adams is currently president-BellSouth Long Distance and vice president-product development and management.

Anderson Named Vice Chairman-Planning and Administration
Reporting to Dick Anderson will be Valencia Adams, vice president and chief diversity officer; Barry Boniface, vice president-planning and development; Becky Dunn, senior vice president-corporate compliance and corporate secretary; William Pate, vice president-advertising and public relations; Dick Sibbernsen, vice president-human resources; Scott Frank, president of BellSouth Intellectual Property Management Corp; and Randy Hudon, director of Corporate Aviation.

Anderson joined South Central Bell in 1981 as an account executive. As chief operating officer for Universal Communication Systems, he led the transition of that company into an integrated equipment services entity for BellSouth. Anderson was named president-Interconnection Services in 1993, and was appointed president-customer markets in October 1999.

Harris Named President of A&P; Smith, Peon to Retire
As president of the Advertising & Publishing Group, Ike Harris will have responsibility for BellSouth Advertising & Publishing Corp., The Berry Company, Stevens Graphics and IntelliVentures, the Internet company that produces RealPages.com. He will continue to have responsibility for BellSouth's Latin American operations and Cellcom. Mauricio Wior, regional vice president-Latin America, will report to Harris until the sale of the BellSouth's remaining Latin American properties is completed.
Since joining BellSouth in 1997, Harris has served as chief financial officer for BellSouth Telecommunications Inc., vice president-corporate finance and president-Consumer Services. Since becoming president of BellSouth Enterprises in January 2004, he has been responsible for BellSouth's Latin American and European operations and BellSouth's Advertising & Publishing Group.

Elmer Smith, president-Advertising & Publishing Group, has announced his retirement, effective March 31, 2005. Smith will continue to report to Harris until his retirement. Prior to his current position, Smith served as president and CEO of The Berry Company, the largest Yellow Pages advertising sales agency in the United States. BellSouth acquired The Berry Company in 1986.

Also announcing his retirement is Roberto Peon, chief marketing officer for BellSouth International. Peon led BellSouth's growth in the Latin American wireless communications industry. He joined BellSouth in 1987 as director of business development for BellSouth International. Prior to his current position, Peon served as vice president-Latin America, president-Brazil operations and CEO for BCPTelecomunicacoes in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Shannon, Wentworth, Droege Named to New Positions
BellSouth has named Pat Shannon senior vice president-finance, reporting to Ron Dykes. Shannon joined BellSouth in 1997 as vice president-finance. He was named vice president-finance and controller in January 2004.

Reporting to Shannon will be Lynn Wentworth, who will move from her current position as vice president and treasurer to vice president and chief financial officer-Communications Group. Wentworth joined BellSouth's financial organization in 1985, and held numerous positions within that organization until being named an officer of BellSouth in January 2003.

Mark Droege has been named vice president and treasurer for BellSouth, reporting to Dykes. Droege, who is currently vice president and chief financial officer-Latin American Group, joined BellSouth in 1986. He has held several key positions, including director-Investor Relations, chief financial officer of DataServ and president-BellSouth Interactive Services, before being named to his present position in April 2000.
About BellSouth Corporation

BellSouth Corporation is a Fortune 100 communications company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia and a parent company of Cingular Wireless, the nation's largest wireless voice and data provider.

Backed by award winning customer service, BellSouth offers the most comprehensive and innovative package of voice and data services available in the market. Through BellSouth Answers(R), residential and small business customers can bundle their local and long distance service with dial up and high speed DSL Internet access, satellite television and Cingular(R) Wireless service. For businesses, BellSouth provides secure, reliable local and long distance voice and data networking solutions. BellSouth also offers online and directory advertising through BellSouth(R) RealPages.com(R) and The Real Yellow Pages(R).
More information about BellSouth can be found at [ >>> ] .
Quelle: BellSouth Corporation

TAIPEI, TAIWAN (MARKET WIRE) City Network, Inc. (AMEX: CSN) a company that designs, manufactures and markets a comprehensive line of broadband and wireless Internet access solutions and consumer electronic products, announced today that it has obtained a new project with Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. (NYSE: CHT), Taiwan’s largest telecommunications company listed as an ADR on the NYSE.

City Network successfully obtained an important business contract via an open bid process amongst competition from several very well-established and highly qualified local market competitors. The winning of the contract represents the largest of a series of orders City Network has obtained from the local telecom giant. The total value of this current contract is nearly US$1,000,000.

The agreement provides that City Network will supply a series of products from both Sun Microsystems and software developed by Oracle including two high capacity high-end servers, five middle range servers, twenty smaller servers and arrays of RAID storage peripherals for the servers as well as one related database software packages. Engineers from City Network will oversee the installation, management and maintenance of the project equipment with each of the products being sold to Chunghwa Telecom scheduled to be delivered by the end of December 2004.

«We see the winning of this most recent bid and contract as a milestone for our company,» commented City Network Chairman Andy Lai, «the project represents the largest to date of our business dealings with Chunghwa Telecom and, we believe, represents proof of the success of City Network’s sales and engineering teams.»

City Network took part in a countrywide open bid competition in order to participate in this infrastructure project. There were more than a half dozen direct competitors who were involved in the two month process of selection and qualification which culminated in last week’s bidding activities, but City Network was able to successfully bid the most competitive price, and therefore obtained the contract. In order to obtain the contract, City Network also passed a series of strict evaluation procedures established by Chunghwa Telecom’s project evaluation team. Therefore, the Company was able to offer the lowest cost as well as high quality to the customer.

The project, which Chunghwa Telecom has named the HiNet Domain Name Service Infrastructure System, is a sub-project of Chunghwa’s Internet Information Applications Service Program. This program is being developed to provide infrastructure equipment and database software to support Chunghwa Telecom’s ISP business and to continue to meet the growth needs of its internet broadband client base. The goal of the project is to continue to strengthen and improve the quality of Chunghwa Telecom’s previously existing HiNet Domain Name Service (DNS), which is one of the overall services provided by HiNet. Other services of Chunghwa’s HiNet include E-mail services, Anonymous FTP, virtual hosting, WebHD, SMS/MMS/SyncML, multi-media, and other applications including e-business services.

About Chunghwa Telecom Co.

Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. provides bundled and value-added telecommunications services to business and residential customers in Taiwan. The company’s service offerings are categorized into three principal groups: fixed-line services, wireless services and Internet and data services. Fixed-line services are the company’s principal business activity. It provides local, domestic long-distance and international long-distance telephone services in Taiwan. Chunghwa also provides interconnection with its fixed-line network to other cellular and fixed-line operators. Wireless services offered by Chunghwa include cellular and paging services. Internet and data services offered by Chunghwa include asymmetrical digital subscriber line (ADSL) Internet access, Internet value-added services and wireless local area networks, leased line services, managed data services and Internet data center services.

About City Network, Inc.

City Network, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets a comprehensive line of broadband and wireless Internet access solutions and consumer electronic products. The Company’s product line ranges from the City Network HPNA device for the flourishing worldwide residential building and hospitality market to the simple DSL bridge/modem for the home and small business user. Currently, City Network Home PNA and xDSL broadband access equipment is widely deployed by major telecommunication carriers, ISPs, and System Integrators worldwide.

Safe Harbor under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: The statements which are not historical facts contained in this press release are forward-looking statements that involve certain risks and uncertainties including but not limited to risks associated with the uncertainty of future financial results, regulatory approval processes, the impact of competitive products or pricing, technological changes, the effect of economic conditions and other uncertainties as may be detailed in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Nothing in this press release shall be construed as an offer to buy or sell any securities herein.

SALT LAKE CITY (BUSINESS WIRE)

Fonix to Gain Northeast Presence and Expanded Customer Base with Addition of New York-based Telecom Provider

Fonix(R) Corp. (OTC BB: FNIX), a communications and technology company providing integrated telecommunications services and value-added speech technologies, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Empire One Telecommunications Inc. («Empire»), a privately held company based in Brooklyn, N. Y. Empire provides facility-based local and long distance phone services and Internet services to business and residential customers. Fonix anticipates that it will close the purchase by Dec. 31, 2004.

Fonix will acquire Empire through a merger transaction for total consideration valued at less than $5 million payable part in cash and part in restricted Fonix common stock. For the trailing 12-month period, Empire had revenues of approximately $8 million. With the addition of Empire, Fonix telecommunications operations is expected to report consolidated revenues of $25 million in 2005.

«The acquisition of Empire One Telecommunications enhances and expands our customer base, geographic reach and service capabilities,» said Thomas A. Murdock, Fonix president and CEO. «This transaction represents an important follow-up to this year’s LecStar acquisition and an acceleration of our strategy to consolidate regional exchanges’ customer bases to create cross-selling opportunities and improve efficiencies through integration. Empire’s strength lies in its facility-based network, which will allow Fonix Telecom companies to leverage low-cost routing of telecom traffic, an enormous advantage in the competitive telecom market.»

«Empire is pleased to join Fonix and its telecom operating subsidiary, Fonix Telecom Inc., and we are excited about the added benefits and services that this transaction makes available to our customers,» said Paul Butler, Empire One Telecommunications COO. «Empire’s facility-based network provides a tremendous advantage to Fonix Telecom, as it can be quickly incorporated into its service offering and the company will immediately realize the benefits of the resulting efficiencies. Customers will continue to receive the same high level of service and support. We expect to realize improved operating margins as we consolidate various functions with Fonix Telecom.»

The closing of the merger is subject to various conditions, including approval of certain federal and state regulatory agencies. There can be no assurance that such conditions will be satisfied or that the closing will occur within the time period presently contemplated by the parties.

About Empire One Telecommunications Inc.

Based in Brooklyn, N.Y., Empire One Telecommunications Inc. provides facility-based and resold local and long distance service and Internet services to customers in 16 states and the District of Columbia. Using state-of-the-art technology and providing superior customer service has helped Empire One Telecommunications become one of the fastest growing communications service providers in the United States. For more information, please visit www.eot.net.

About Fonix Telecom Inc.

Fonix Telecom Inc. is the Atlanta-based subsidiary of Fonix Corp., providing services in the Southeast region as LecStar Telecom Inc. (www.lecstar.com). Fonix Telecom provides a full array of wireline voice, data, long distance and Internet telephone services using traditional lines as well as next-generation networks such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), Broadband over Power Lines (BPL) and fixed wireless technology communications services to businesses and consumers.

About Fonix

Fonix Corp. is an innovative communications and technology company that provides integrated telecommunications services and value-added speech technologies through Fonix Telecom Inc. and The Fonix Speech Group. Visit www.fonix.com for more information, or call 801–553–6600 and say «Sales.»

Statements released by Fonix that are not purely historical are forward looking within the meaning of the «Safe Harbor» provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding the company’s expectations, hopes, intentions and strategies for the future. Investors are cautioned that forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainties that may affect the company’s business prospects and performance. The company’s actual results could differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. Risk factors include general economic, competitive, governmental and technological factors as discussed in the company’s filings with the SEC on Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K. The company does not undertake any responsibility to update the forward-looking statements contained in this release.

Self-Healing Connections Provide Additional Assurance of Business Continuity, According to Florida Customers

ATLANTA, /PRNewswire/ Unaccustomed as they are to discouraging students from attending class, officials of Stetson University in DeLand, Fla., were thankful to have that capability recently. Due to careful planning and communication services from BellSouth, the school was able to get messages out in the midst of a natural disaster.

When Hurricane Frances roared through central Florida, she toppled 100- year-old laurel oak trees and left floodwater standing inside buildings on the 165-acre Stetson campus northeast of Orlando. With no commercial electrical power, power lines lying on the ground and limbs spread across roads, Stetson cancelled classes. But the question administrators were left with was how to communicate their decision to students and faculty and how to tell them when it was safe to return to campus.

They turned to e-mail and their Web site, which, despite the devastation throughout the area, remained functional for the entire nine days the campus was without power. Bill Penney, director of technology at Stetson, Florida's first private university, credited BellSouth(R) SMARTRing(R) Service for the school's ability to keep communications flowing.

"It made the job of the Emergency Management Team easier and saved us a tremendous headache," said Penney. "There was no power on campus, but we were able to send e-mail and to post pictures of the damage on the Web site so students and parents knew we weren't kidding when we said it was bad around here."

SMARTRing Service is a dedicated, high-capacity network designed to provide increased reliability and functionality among multiple sites. The backbone of SMARTRing (Self-healing, Multi-nodal Alternative Route Topology Ring) Service is its ability to heal itself based on its redundant architecture. SMARTRing Service can be described as two paths of fiber providing a protective moat around an area such as the Stetson campus. If a single fiber is cut, the signal will travel over the second fiber. If both fiber circuits are cut, the signal reverses and travels around the remaining arc of the loop.

SMARTRing Service also made life easier for government officials and residents of Seminole County in central Florida during the recent hurricanes and tropical storms. Seminole County added SMARTRing Service technology several years ago as its requirements for telecommunications services continued to grow.

"When BellSouth first came to us with this technology, we were looking for ways to accommodate future growth," said Greg Holcomb, information technology manager for Seminole County. "But one of our criteria was also making sure we could handle major catastrophic events. If we were shut down, we wanted to make sure we could quickly reroute and bring our connectivity up at another location."

Holcomb and other government officials may not have envisioned a series of events like the recent storms, but they are thankful they were prepared. As a result of the services in place, Seminole County experienced no outages.
"Business continuity plans that incorporate communication systems give customers piece of mind that they can effectively operate, even under stressful conditions," said Joan Kratz — vice president of marketing, BellSouth Business. "BellSouth's voice and data solutions, with proper planning, greatly reduce the impact of natural disasters on an organization's ability to communicate to customers, suppliers and partners."

About BellSouth Corporation

BellSouth Corporation is a Fortune 100 communications company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia and a parent company of Cingular Wireless, the nation's largest wireless voice and data provider.

Backed by award winning customer service, BellSouth offers the most comprehensive and innovative package of voice and data services available in the market. Through BellSouth Answers(R), residential and small business customers can bundle their local and long distance service with dial up and high speed DSL Internet access, satellite television and Cingular(R) Wireless service. For businesses, BellSouth provides secure, reliable local and long distance voice and data networking solutions. BellSouth also offers online and directory advertising through BellSouth(R) RealPages.com(R) and The Real Yellow Pages(R).

More information about BellSouth can be found at [ >>> ] .
Quelle: BellSouth Corporation

PLYMOUTH MEETING, /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ SmartServ Online,
Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: SSRV), a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) that
provides mobile phone service with the best in low cost pre-paid minute plans and the latest in mobile content, announced today that it has signed a Letter of Intent to acquire Telco Group, Inc., and affiliates. Telco is a New York-based provider of pay-as-you-go wireless telecommunications services ([ >>> ] prepaid international long distance, nationwide dial around long distance ([ >>> ] and nationwide dial up high speed internet services ([ >>> ]

The completion of this transaction is expected to add over $300 million in
annual revenue.

«A combination of the two companies would bring together the network
infrastructure of Telco Group, Inc. and the sales and distribution of it’s
affiliates, with the mobile content technology, management expertise, and
marketing and branding resources of SmartServ,» said Robert Pons, CEO
SmartServ. «The combined resources would create a company with competitive
advantages in both the prepaid wireless and prepaid international businesses,»
added Mr. Pons.

«This exciting combination would create one of the leading full-service,
enhanced communications companies in the United States offering pay-as-you-go
wireless, prepaid international, nationwide dial around and high speed
internet services with one of the most experienced and highly effective
management teams in the prepaid communications sector,» said Sam Tawfik,
Telco’s founder and CEO.

Jefferies & Company, Inc is acting as exclusive financial advisor to
SmartServ with respect to this transaction and assisting in the raising of
related financing.

The closing of this transaction is subject to customary closing conditions
for these types of transactions. There can be no assurance that these
conditions will be met and that the transaction will be consummated.

SmartServ Online, Inc.(R)

SmartServ, headquartered in Plymouth Meeting, PA is a Mobile Virtual
Network Operator (MVNO) that provides mobile phone service with the best in
low cost, pre-paid minute plans, discounted international long distance, and
the latest in mobile content, such as ringtones, mobile games, and images.
SmartServ products and services are marketed under the UPHONIA™ brand. For
more information please visit: [ >>> ] and
[ >>> ]

Forward-Looking Statements

This news release may contain forward-looking statements that involve
risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements in this document and those
made from time-to-time by the Company are made under the safe harbor
provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-
looking statements concerning future plans or results are necessarily only
estimates and actual results could differ materially from expectations.
Certain factors that could cause or contribute to such differences are
described from time to time in the Company’s filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, including but not limited to, the «Risk Factors»
described under the heading «Certain Factors That May Affect Future Results»
in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-KSB/A for the year ended December
31, 2003 and other SEC filings.

AdCalls and Fred Allgower (AdCalls Master Advisor) Offer FREE Unlimited Long Distance Calling

AdCalls and Fred Allgower are offering free unlimited long distance calling capability using the company’s new patent pending online dialer. Mr. Allgower recently joined the AdCalls organization as a Master Advisor. AdCalls is the leading provider of cutting edge internet technology solutions to deliver global voice solutions as well as coupon advertisements and special offers to millions of demographically targeted computer users in the United States and Canada. The product provides customers with unlimited FREE long distance calling. To learn more, visit [ >>> ] or phone 480–585–3463.

(PRWEB) November 18, 2004 -- AdCalls has built the world’s first 100% permission based marketing solution for any size business. The company has developed an innovative business strategy linking the massive growth principles of direct marketing with the unlimited possibilities of the Internet technology revolution to create one of the most exciting opportunities of all time. From their latest technology trends to their patent pending products for their savers, advertisers and private label partners, AdCalls offers innovative products and services that enhance the quality of life for everyone involved.

AdCalls has unveiled the most powerful communications and coupon redemption program in the world! Their free business model is attractive to consumers across the globe. They give away free long distance phone calling from a personal computer. This is PC to PHONE in the US and Canada. You may call around the World for free, too…It’s PC to PC…plus they are giving away free coupons that will help everyone save money on everything they buy, everyday.

The company has built a global network on a solid foundation. The 10,000 sq. ft. AdCalls Carrier Data Center located in Santa Ana, CA — is a global access control center that boasts a dual OC-48 internet pipeline that can serve up to 10 billion ads each month. Their high-tech center provides full security, uninterruptible power, environmental control, and raised floors to accommodate fiber optic and copper cables.

AdCalls offers opportunity seekers the most exciting and rewarding income opportunity in modern day history. They provide their business partners a way of earning money by giving away FREE long distance calling to everyone they know. These partners can also save hundreds each year on all local and long distance calls by using the FREE AdCalls dialer from their personal computer.

Advertisers who purchase from AdCalls to promote their products and/or services provide coupon advertisements and special offers to millions of demographically targeted computer users in the US and Canada on their free patent pending phone dialer. The AdCalls network of consumers are 100% permission based with zero tolerance for spam or other forms of unwanted messaging. The end result is a powerful and exclusive network of viewers and advertisers exchanging special rewards and incentives through a highly trained and fast growing marketing sales force.

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