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To: rest42 who wrote (9194)	6/11/1999 9:39:00 AM
From: Condor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 30916

Good question. Could AOL have a piece of Prodigy too? and be covering all bases. Hope others can help out here.

To: rest42 who wrote (9194)	6/11/1999 9:59:00 AM
From: vinh pham	Respond to of 30916

AOL has a contract to offer its customers long distance service from talk.com, but this contract will expire in mid 2000. i find nothing disturbing about AOL pushing to resell talk.com to Prodigy. it's all about money, no? my hope is that AOL would start offering INTERNATIONAL Calling through N2P very soon. any comments or thoughts on this?

To: rest42 who wrote (9194)	6/11/1999 10:47:00 AM
From: vinh pham	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 30916

Corrections regarding the talk.com/AOL/Prodigy: keep in mind that talk.com and AOL has had a contract way before AOL invested in N2P. talk.com released a PR this morning confirming that it still has the exclusive right to provide long distance service to AOL's members until 2003. however, AOL is free to deal with non-exclusive telephony service providers in July 2000. from this same PR i read that Prodigy will offer talk.com services directly, not through AOL as a previous poster had thought. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Friday June 11, 9:18 am Eastern Time Company Press Release SOURCE: TALK.com Inc. TALK.com Confirms Exclusive Status on America Online RESTON, Va., June 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Gabe Battista, Chairman and CEO of TALK.com (Nasdaq: TALK - news), the nation's largest e-commerce telecommunications company, confirmed today that contractually TALK.com is the exclusive provider of long distance and wireless services on America Online through 2003. Battista commented, ''As part of our agreement, we gave AOL the right to bring in non-exclusive partners in July of 2000.'' He continued, ''But regardless of our exclusivity status, TALK.com will continue as a provider of telecommunications services to AOL customers and retain valuable marketing and distribution channels with AOL through 2003 for these services. Any change in our contractual relationship with AOL does not effect our relationship with our AOL/TALK.com customers. If AOL adds other non-exclusive telecom players, TALK.com will save tens of millions of dollars a year and still preserve valuable marketing rights that we need to continue growing our profitable business on AOL.'' Battista continued, ''AOL is a strong partner, a large shareholder and a terrific source of customers for our online business.'' Relating to its Prodigy announcement today, Battista concluded, ''That this is another positive step for TALK.com and expands our leadership position on the internet as the largest provider of e-commerce telecommunication services.'' Certain of the statements contained herein may be considered forward- looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These forward- looking statements are based on the Company's current expectations. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, there can be no assurance that such expectations will prove to have been correct. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties and the Company's actual results could differ materially from the Company's expectations. TALK.com is the nation's largest e-commerce telecommunications provider through an exclusive arrangement with America Online, Inc. and utilizes its Company owned state of the art network -- One Better Network (''OBN''). TALK.com press releases available at talk.com. SOURCE: TALK.com Inc.