CELEBRATION, Fla., Oct. 27, 2005 – VoX Communications, Inc., eLEC Communications Corp.’s (OTCBB: ELEC) wholesale and retail provider of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services nationwide, today announced that Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC)’s INTERNET TELEPHONY Magazine has presented VoX with two coveted VoIP (voice over IP) Service Provider Awards in the categories of “Most Innovative VoIP Provider for Technology,” and “Best Initiatives to Become a VoIP Provider for Residential and Small Businesses.” INTERNET TELEPHONY Magazine has been a VoIP Authority since its launch in 1998. It is the longest running magazine in the field and the only BPA (Business Publications Audit) worldwide-audited magazine focusing 100 percent on VoIP.
INTERNET TELEPHONY Magazine’s 2nd Annual VoIP Service Provider Awards recognize “the best of the best VoIP/IP telephony service providers across North America.” The awards were announced last evening, October 26, at a special awards dinner and ceremony at the Fall 2005 INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO in Los Angeles.
“We are impressed with VoX’s ability to come to market quickly with its unique, leading-edge Linux-based server cluster technology approach to VoIP, which offers stable and rapid scalability with no single-point-of-failure,” said TMC’s President and INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference Chairman Rich Tehrani. “VoX just launched its VoIP service earlier this year and is already setting new levels of standards for voice quality and cost savings. It’s no surprise that they are rapidly gaining nationwide traction with wholesale and retail customers who are looking for choice, reliability and cost savings from packet telephony technology. We congratulate VOX Communications for its incredible achievements this past year.”
“We’re thrilled to be a recipient of INTERNET TELEPHONY Magazine’s Service Provider Awards,” said VoX’s CIO Mark Richards. “Our mission with VoX Communications is to offer cost-effective, scalable, nationwide VoIP service, backed by superior voice quality and features, and we’re pleased to see that this industry has recognized the value of our technology and business achievements in the VoIP space.”
About VoX Communications
Based in Celebration, Fla., VoX Communications is a wholly owned subsidiary of eLEC Communications Corp. Using its advanced, nationwide Voice over IP (VoIP) network, VoX offers wholesale broadband voice, origination and termination services for cable, wireless and wireline operators, and enhanced VoIP telephone service to the small business and residential marketplace. VoX's VoIP service is a feature-rich, low-cost and high-quality alternative to traditional landline phone service. For more information, visit http://www.voxcorp.net/.
About eLEC Communications
eLEC Communications Corp., headquartered in White Plains, NY, is a publicly traded local telecommunications company that is taking advantage of the convergence of the technological and regulatory developments in the Internet and telecommunications markets. eLEC provides an integrated suite of communications 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.
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For more information, please contact:
Mostafa Razzak
23-31 Communications for TMC
646.442.3361
m.razzak@23-31.com
Terry May
HighTech PR, Inc. for VoX
321-632-1690