News: I-Link Announces Flat Rate Pricing Plans for V-Link
Long-Distance & New Low Rates For Enhanced V-Link
Calling, International Calls, & Travel Cards
PR Newswire - July 29, 1999 16:56
$149 per Month for Unlimited U.S. Long-Distance; Enhanced V-Link Calling To Drop as Low as
3.9-Cents-Per Minute; International Rates to Drop 35% - 45%; & Travel Card Calling To Drop as Low
As 4.9-Cents-Per Minute
DRAPER, Utah, July 29 /PRNewswire/ -- I-Link Inc. (Nasdaq: ILNK), a next generation
telecommunications company, today announced its first ever flat rate pricing plan for V-Link(TM)
long-distance calling and new low per minute rates for other long-distance calling programs. These new
prices cover long- distance dialing, enhanced V-Link calling, and travel card usage, all in the continental
U.S., as well as international long-distance calling. These new pricing plans will go into effect September
1999.
For long-distance dialing, I-Link residential customers will be able to purchase unlimited, continental U.S.
for V-Link long-distance calling for a monthly fee of $149.00. This will be the first time I-Link has
offered its customers a flat-rate long-distance pricing plan.
For customers making long-distance calls from within V-Link -- which provides users with a variety of
enhanced messaging and calling services -- the per minute long-distance charges for V-Link calls will
drop to as low as 3.9-cents-per-minute in the continental U.S. The previous lowest long- distance
V-Link calling rate has been 4.9-cents-per-minute.
I-Link customers making international long-distance calls will see rates drop 35 percent to 45 percent
from their current price points. This new international pricing structure is for calls originating in the
continental U.S. to a foreign termination point.
Travel card rates for I-Link customers will drop to as low as 4.9-cents-per-minute, a rate that will be
available from any land-based touch tone phone in the continental U.S. This is a decrease of more than
55 percent from I-Link's previously lowest travel card long-distance rate of 11.9-cents- per-minute.
"These are unheard of long-distance pricing plans, regardless of where you go throughout the world,"
said John Edwards, president and CEO of I-Link. "We are able to offer these unprecedented rates
because of the national telecommunications network we have deployed utilizing I-Link's enhanced IP
("Internet Protocol") technology, and the underlying enhanced services we offer based upon V-Link. We
expect to see a lot of interest in these new plans as they come online this fall."
About V-Link:
V-Link is a unified messaging product designed to provide users with such enhanced communications
services as unified voice, fax, pager and e-mail messaging, on-the-fly conference calling,
store-and-forward fax messaging, store-and-forward voice messaging, automated caller screening, and
one-number call routing. V-Link also provides users with a long-distance rate as low as
3.9-cents-per-minute.
One of the features of V-Link is the ability to add or drop callers to a call while that call is in process.
Additionally, V-Link users can have faxes sent directly to their V-Link phone number and then route the
faxes to a nearby fax machine, regardless of where they or the fax machine are located. V-Link users can
also begin a phone call on a land-based phone line, transfer that call to a mobile phone and then later
transfer that call back to another land-based phone line -- all without even telling the other party that the
transfers have been made.
Founded in 1994, I-Link Inc. is a next generation telecommunications company that uses its IP-enabling
technologies to provide low-cost long-distance, conference calling, voice mail, fax, e-mail and other
enhanced communications services to its customers. I-Link delivers these services via its private IP
network built with I-Link's next generation IP-based network platforms, I-Link Communications
Engines(TM) and I-Link Enhanced Services Engines(TM). Through wholly owned subsidiaries MiBridge
Inc. and ViaNet Technologies Ltd., I-Link develops emerging communications technologies that are used
by I-Link and other leading communications firms worldwide. I-Link is headquartered in Draper, Utah,
and its Web site is located at i-link.net.
The statements made in this release that are not historical facts contain forward-looking information that
involves risks and uncertainties. Important factors that may cause actual results to differ include, but are
not limited to, the impact of competitive products and services, the company's ability to manage growth
and acquisitions of technology or businesses, the effect of economic and business conditions, and other
risks detailed from time to time in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
I-Link Communications Engines, I-Link Enhanced Services Engines, MiBridge, ViaNet, ViaNet
Technologies, and V-Link are each trademarks of I-Link Inc. All other trademarks are the property of
their respective holders.
SOURCE I-Link Inc.
/CONTACT: Media: David Politis of Politis Communications,
801-523-3730, or 801-598-3730, (mobile), dpolitis@politis.com, for I-Link
Inc., or Financial: Karl Ryser, Jr. of I-Link, Inc., 801-576-5025,
karlr@i-link.net/
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