| MISSISSAUGA, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 22, 1999-- TELEFFICIENCY HOLDING CORPORATION (TTFC.NASD.OTC.BB), today announced
 that the company plans to offer Competitive Local Exchange Carrier
 (C.L.E.C.) services to its approximately ten thousand Southern
 Ontario customers by the new millennium. C.L.E.C. services include
 business telephone lines, long distance service and internet access.
 To lead the charge into C.L.E.C. services the company has hired
 Jean-Marie Baudot who has the experience to both develop and manage
 our new C.L.E.C. services group. This new offering brings
 Telefficiency to the next level of providing total communication
 solutions to new and existing customers.
 Baudot will set up and manage the offering of C.L.E.C. services
 to over ten thousand existing customers with approximately seventy
 thousand telephone lines and will orchestrate a sales and marketing
 plan to offer these services to new customers as well. The initial
 start date is targeted for January 3, year 2000.
 Baudot, 45, formerly with Optel Communications of Toronto, was
 responsible for the start up of operations in Montreal, Quebec. Baudot
 developed all sales and marketing plans for the Quebec marketplace,
 and was successful in converting over ten thousand customer telephone
 lines in the first year of operation.
 "Telefficiency is an excellent example of how rapidly the
 communications industry is evolving, with its forward-looking thinking
 it is transforming itself from a sales and service provider of
 hardware to providing total communication solutions. With our existing
 base of over ten thousand customers and approximately seventy thousand
 telephone lines this will dramatically accelerate our expansion into
 the C.L.E.C. service environment," said Baudot.
 Telefficiency is a leading North American telecom company that
 sells, installs and services business telecommunications systems
 primarily to the small to medium-sized business market. The Company's
 mission is to become the leader in the North American interconnect
 market by providing total communication solutions via state of the art
 systems, software and network services.
 
 This release contains "forward-looking statements" within the
 meaning of Section 21E of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as
 amended. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected
 in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can give no
 assurance that such expectations will prove to have been correct.
 Important facts that may cause actual results to differ (the
 "Cautionary Statements") include but are not necessarily limited to,
 political and economic stability of the countries in which the Company
 intends to operate, the availability of commercially viable projects
 in which the Company may participate, or the Company's ability to
 obtain adequate financing. All subsequent written and oral forward
 looking statements attributed to the Company or persons acting on its
 behalf regarding the subject matter hereof are expressly qualified in
 their entirety by the Cautionary Statements.
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