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ELEC News eLEC Communications Expands VoIP Network
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 12, 2005--eLEC Communications Corp. (OTCBB:ELEC) today announced that it has begun construction of an additional Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) point of presence (PoP) in Orlando, Florida. This facility is designed to support a rapid increase in VoIP traffic driven by the company's wholly owned VoIP subsidiary, VoX Communications Corp.
"While our existing network continues to support new customers nationwide, we are quickly seeing the need to stay ahead of demand with additional PoPs," said Mark Richards, President of VoX. "Our packet switched network, which utilizes proprietary softswitch technology and an innovative server cluster configuration allows us to quickly expand network capacity in multiple locations to support a growing customer base and provide a high level of redundancy. The Orlando PoP will be our largest and highest capacity facility. With the demand in minutes that our wholesale customers are projecting, we are also now planning a PoP in the Denver area."
"Despite the size and sophistication of the Orlando PoP, we will continue to have the lowest known port cost per subscriber in the industry," said Paul Riss, eLEC's CEO. "We know of no other VoIP company that can react to industry demand and expand its facilities as efficiently as VoX. Not only does our VoIP technology provide high quality voice traffic, it scales in a very economical manner. With this robust technology and our recent round of funding, eLEC is now positioned to manage its wireline business for cash flow and focus all incremental resources on its VoIP services."
About VoX Communications
Based in Celebration, Fla., VoX Communications (a wholly owned subsidiary of eLEC Communications Corp.) offers wholesale broadband voice, origination and termination services for cable operators, carriers, ISPs, CLECs, resellers and other wireless and wireline operators, as well as enhanced VoIP telephone service to the small business and residential marketplace. VoX's VoIP services are a feature-rich, low-cost and high-quality alternative to traditional phone service. For more information, visit www.voxcorp.net.
About eLEC Communications
eLEC Communications Corp. is a telecommunications holding company that is taking advantage of the convergence of the technological and regulatory developments in the Internet and telecommunications markets. eLEC's operating subsidiaries provide an integrated suite of telephone services to business and residential customers, including local, long distance, dedicated access, and VoIP. For more information, visit www.elec.net.
This release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. eLEC's actual results may differ materially from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause such a difference include, among others, certain risks and uncertainties over which the company may have no control. For further discussion of such risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see the discussions contained in eLEC's Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for the year ended November 30, 2004 and Quarterly Report on Form 10-QSB for the period ending August 31, 2005, and any subsequent SEC filings.
