VoX Communications Selects Global Crossing for Nationwide VoIP Services

VoX Communications Selects Global Crossing for Nationwide VoIP
Services 


FLORHAM PARK, N.J., June 6  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Global Crossing
(NASDAQ:GLBC) announced today that it is providing Global Crossing VoIP
Outbound Service(TM) and Global Crossing VoIP Local Service(TM) to VoX
Communications, a premier packet communications services provider deploying
wholesale, residential and business VoIP services nationwide.

VoX is a wholly owned subsidiary of eLEC Communications Corp (OTC:ELEC)
(BULLETIN BOARD: ELEC) . VoX selected Global Crossing's robust VoIP solution
set to power its high-quality alternative to traditional landline service.

"We selected Global Crossing as a network partner because of its global reach
and proven network performance, as well as sophisticated feature sets that
interest our customers," said Mark Richards, president of VoX Communications.

VoX Communications offers wholesale broadband voice, origination and
termination services for cable, wireless and wire line operators and enhanced
VoIP service to the small business and residential marketplace.  VoX's
feature-rich offering includes Call Hold, Call Waiting, Caller ID, Call
Transfer, Hunt Groups, Do Not Disturb, Call Forward, International Call
Blocking, Call Return, Repeat Dialing/Redial, Extension Dialing, Anonymous Call
Rejection and e-mail notification of voicemail, all at no additional charge. 
Add-on features include: Multibox Voicemail, Music on Hold, Corporate
Conference calling, Reassign Phone, Find me/Follow me, and Auto Attendant,
among others.

"VoX Communications' selection of Global Crossing is a ringing endorsement of
our VoIP capabilities," said John Mulhearn, Global Crossing's senior vice
president global wholesale voice & access management.  "By leveraging our
flexible, global offer, VoX Communications is assured of providing its end
customers with high-quality, reliable and advanced IP communications services."

Global Crossing VoIP Outbound Service enables IP Transit, public Internet and
fully meshed IP VPN connectivity, providing carriers with unlimited VoIP Local
Services and VoIP toll-free connection options to maximize flexibility and
control expenses. The service is available worldwide with any public Internet
connection for termination of packet-based traffic to any phone.

Global Crossing's VoIP Local Service is a direct inward dial service that
provides local origination for nationwide local numbers through a single IP
point of interconnection as a cost-effective alternative to traditional toll-
free applications. This service eliminates traditional TDM, private line and
foreign exchange service fees by providing a single IP connection alternative,
and is ideal for service providers embracing VoIP technology.

A leader in fully interoperable, secure VoIP services for enterprise and
carrier customers, Global Crossing currently runs over two billion minutes per
month of VoIP traffic over its private, global backbone. The company's VoIP
services deliver carrier-class quality, backed by end-to-end IP service level
agreements (SLAs) for jitter, packet loss, availability and latency. Global
Crossing was one of the first service providers to announce the replacement of
legacy switches with VoIP switches in its network core, enhancing the seamless
delivery of converged IP services.

VoX Communications also benefits from Global Crossing's uCommand(R) Customer
Service Portal, a unique offering that delivers 24*7 self-service autonomy to
customers. This secure, private Web-based network management tool allows
customers to order data services, monitor their networks, create utilization
reports, establish end-user and product accounts, and view monthly billing
reports.

About Global Crossing

Global Crossing (NASDAQ:GLBC) provides telecommunications solutions over the
world's first integrated global IP-based network.  Its core network connects
more than 300 cities and 30 countries worldwide, and delivers services to more
than 500 major cities, 50 countries and 6 continents around the globe.  The
company's global sales and support model matches the network footprint and,
like the network, delivers a consistent customer experience worldwide.

Global Crossing IP services are global in scale, linking the world's
enterprises, governments and carriers with customers, employees and partners
worldwide in a secure environment that is ideally suited for IP-based business
applications, allowing e-commerce to thrive.  The company offers a full range
of managed data and voice products including Global Crossing IP VPN Service,
Global Crossing Managed Services and Global Crossing VoIP services, to more
than 40 percent of the Fortune 500, as well as 700 carriers, mobile operators
and ISPs.

Please visit http://www.globalcrossing.com/ for more information about Global
Crossing.

Statements made in this press release that state the company's intentions,
beliefs, expectations, or predictions for the future are forward-looking
statements. These statements contain words such as "anticipate," "estimate,"
"expect," "project," "intend," "plan," "believe," "will," "seek," or similar
expressions. Such statements are subject to known and unknown risks,
uncertainties and other factors that could cause the actual results to differ
materially from those contemplated by the statements, including the
conditioning of the company's continued listing on the NASDAQ National Market
on its timely filing with the SEC of all periodic reports for all reporting
periods ending on or prior to September 30, 2005; the company's history of
substantial operating losses and the fact that, in the near term, funds from
operations will not satisfy cash requirements; legal and contractual
restrictions on the payment of dividends and the inter-company transfer of
funds by the company's subsidiaries, including restrictions under the senior
secured notes indenture applicable to Global Crossing (UK) Telecommunications
Limited ("GCUK"); the likelihood that the prices the company charges for its
services will continue to decrease; the company's ability to continue to
connect its network to incumbent carriers' networks or maintain Internet
peering arrangements on favorable terms; the success of the company's business
realignment plan and the realization of anticipated cost savings; the
consequences of any inadvertent violation of the company's Network Security
Agreement with the U.S. Government; the impact of actual and potential
customers' bankruptcies on the company's sales prospects and results of
operations; increased competition and pricing pressures resulting from
technology advances and regulatory changes; competitive disadvantages relative
to competitors with superior resources; the impact on the company's
competitiveness of its technology choices; the company's dependence on third
parties for many functions; political, legal and other risks due to the
company's substantial international operations; risks arising out of the
company's material weaknesses in internal controls and possible difficulties
and delays in improving such controls; the concentration of GCUK's revenue in a
limited number of customers, and the rights of such customers to terminate
their contracts or to simply cease purchasing services thereunder; and other
risks referenced from time to time in the company's filings with the Securities
and Exchange Commission. The company undertakes no duty to update information
contained in this press release or in other public disclosures at any time.

   Contact Global Crossing:
   Press Contact
   Tom Topalian
   [phone]
   

   Analysts/Investors Contact
   Laurinda Pang
   [phone]
   

DATASOURCE: Global Crossing



CONTACT:  Press: Tom Topalian, [phone], ;

Analysts/Investors: Laurinda Pang, [phone], ,

both of Global Crossing



Web site:  http://www.globalcrossing.com/ 

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