GENEVA, Jul 5, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) --  The Company (OTCBB:BCHH) has formed a
VIPC Corporation subsidiary in Thailand to further expand its growth in Pacific
Rim countries with high levels of international telephone traffic.
 
Beach Couch, Inc. has acquired an 80% interest in VIPC Corporation, a Delaware
Corporation, established as a joint venture with ChengDu Jiabin Electronic
Technology Co., Ltd. to develop IP/ISP services in Asia, North America and
Central Europe and to market multi-media, value added products in both its'
current Asian markets and in the regions where the Company will be expanding
its' operations. Jiabin operates IP/ISP PoP gateways in eight major Mainland
China cities, handling approximately 4,000,000 minutes per month of
international traffic generating annual revenues in excess of $3,500,000 USD and
is opening centers in 7 additional Chinese cities. Following Jiabin's successful
format of introducing value added IP/ISP products in participation with
Provincial and Municipal operations of China Telecom, the Company plans to enter
the Thailand IP/ISP market in anticipation of new telecommunication regulations
being developed by CAT (the Thailand telecommunications company) in conjunction
with the Thailand Government.
 
The Company is proceeding with Jiabin's ongoing Chinese Joint Venture
negotiations with the value added IP/ISP security arm of a major European
Telecommunications group. The negotiations will now encompass not only the
Mainland China market, but also include Thailand and Singapore, where the
Company is establishing a major gateway to act as a central hub for its two way
Asian IP traffic. Company representatives will be in Vancouver, Canada and
Northern California during the month of July to begin development of the planned
North American gateways necessary to maximize two way traffic between its Asian
and North American customers. IP applications have been made in St. Petersburg
and Moscow in order to enhance the Company's Russian paging service revenues and
develop two way IP traffic between Central Europe, Asia and North America.
 
 
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