Company's Internet Bandwidth and Telephony Services Support
eFax.com's Rapidly Growing Business
SAN JOSE, Calif., ISPCON Fall '99, Oct. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Electric
Lightwave Inc. (Nasdaq: ELIX), a leading integrated communications provider,
today announced an agreement with eFax.com (Nasdaq: EFAX) to support its
rapidly expanding unified messaging business, delivering fax documents, and
now voice mail, over the Internet.
In numerous cities throughout the western United States, eFax.com is
acquiring Internet bandwidth and telephone access lines from Electric
Lightwave, one of several providers that eFax.com has chosen to partner with
in providing continuous service to its burgeoning subscriber-base. eFax.com
has reached one and a quarter million users in less than eight months.
"Electric Lightwave has been extremely innovative at addressing and
responding quickly to meet our needs," said Josh Mailman, vice president of
operations at eFax.com. "Our customer base is growing extremely fast, and
every new customer depends on us for quick, reliable service. Electric
Lightwave helps us keep pace with our customer's needs."
Electric Lightwave operates its own $450-million high-speed fiber optic
network that connects major cities in the western U.S. and a premiere national
Internet backbone that was recently ranked fifth out of 43 profiled in
Boardwatch magazine.
"Electric Lightwave's premiere Internet backbone is ideal to serve the
capacity needs of incredibly fast-growing Internet companies such as
eFax.com," said Michael Morey, Electric Lightwave's regional vice president of
sales for California and Nevada. "We have the bandwidth to enable our
Internet-based customers to handle the surges common to e-business, which
makes tremendous growth, as experienced by eFax.com, manageable."
In addition, eFax.com co-locates equipment at Electric Lightwave's
facilities, providing eFax.com with direct, fast connections to Electric
Lightwave's network.
About Electric Lightwave
Electric Lightwave Inc. is a leading integrated communications provider of
enhanced data services, frame relay, ATM and Internet access solutions to
bandwidth intensive businesses and the growing e-commerce market, as well as
local and long-distance telephone service.
Headquartered in Vancouver, Wash., Electric Lightwave employs 1,233 and
earned revenues of $101 million in 1998, up 65 percent from 1997. Additional
information about Electric Lightwave Inc. is located on the World Wide Web at
http://www.eli.net.
About eFax.com
eFax.com is a leading provider of Internet unified messaging solutions. By
providing unique telephone numbers to its one and a quarter million
subscribers, eFax.com has become the dominant provider of Internet telephony
messaging. The company intends to expand its range of unified messaging
products to accelerate its lead in Internet telephony beyond its initial
offering of the world's first free fax-to-email service. The company markets
its Internet services via its own eFax.com web site in addition to its many
affiliates and co-brand partners including XOOM.com, fortunecity.com, eGroups,
Phone.com, Network Solutions, FindLaw and AllBusiness.com.
Founded in 1988, eFax.com has over a decade of experience in developing
and licensing its telecommunications and document communications technologies
to major OEM partners. eFax.com is headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif. For
more information, call 877-EFAXCOM; fax 650-326-6003; or visit: http://www.efax.com.
The statements in this press release relating to matters that are not
historical are forward-looking statements. Actual results could differ
materially from these forward-looking statements. Readers are referred to the
documents filed by eFax.com with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which
identify important risk factors such as the Company's ability to obtain
additional users for our Internet services, our dependence on third parties
for network and telephony services, and regulatory issues.
SOURCE Electric Lightwave Inc.
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CONTACT:
Enid Lamey of Electric Lightwave Inc.,
360-816-4682, or enid_lamey@eli.net; or Laura Stansfield,
lauras@efax.com, or Leah Ribak, leahr@efax.com, both of eFax.com
Inc., 650-470-6910
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