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To: drsvelte who wrote (23837)	9/30/1999 12:03:00 PM
From: d. alexander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 68410

doc; re: NTOP - if you haven't seen it. Are you still in? New Price Challenger Hits PC-to-Phone Market; Call From Anywhere In The World To The U.S.A., Canada or U.K. For 10 Cents A Minute Using GTC Telecom's CallingPlanet.com BUSINESS WIRE - September 30, 1999 09:02 COSTA MESA, Calif., Sep 30, 1999 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- GTC Telecom (OTC BB:GTCC) which leads in the domestic long distance wars (5 cents per minute, no fees, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week) is entering the PC-to-Phone International market with the same fervor by announcing today that GTC Telecom's CallingPlanet.com will offer a no fee, no hidden costs, 10 cents a minute rate for certain International calls. This special rate will be available to CallingPlanet.com customers calling from anywhere in the world to the United States, Canada, or the United Kingdom. Paul Sandhu, President & CEO of GTC Telecom, states, "Although the product will not be available for roughly 90 days, we have received tremendous interest in our new product and our pricing strategy. To reinforce our commitment to competitive, customer targeted pricing, we announced today a few countries where international inbound calls will only cost 10 cents a minute. These countries receive a high percentage of inbound traffic, and this pricing will be very attractive to customers who are paying several dollars per minute to make these calls. Additional pricing will be released closer to our launch date." International country-to-country calling is the new frontier. "There are only a handful of programs out in the marketplace today that are even attempting to tap into this area such as Net2Phone's (Nasdaq:NTOP), ITCX Corporation (Nasdaq:ITXC), and Ursus Telecom's (Nasdaq:UTCC) Web to phone. We believe our flat rate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week will appeal to everyone," states Sandhu. About GTC Telecom Founded in 1997, GTC Telecom is a Telecom/Internet company, providing long distance service to small and medium sized businesses as well as residential customers throughout the United States. GTC Telecom has some of the lowest long distance rates in the industry today to compete with AT&T (NYSE:T), Sprint (NYSE:FON), Qwest Communications (Nasdaq:QWST), and IDT Corporation. (Nasdaq:IDTC) among others. GTC Telecom offers five-cent per minute anytime, any day long distance rate plan with no monthly fee, and consumers that choose not to billed on a monthly basis will be charged a $1.95 per month processing fee. GTC Telecom offers basic Internet and long distance bundled, and non-bundled plans. For basic unlimited 56K dial up Internet access, GTC offers a plan for $9.95 per month. In addition, GTC offers an array of other Internet services, including wireless T1 access at www.gtcinternet.com, and a portal site, www.gtczone.com. The Company also offers long distance calling cards via the Internet on its site, www.ecallingcards.com. For further information visit GTC's web site at www.gtctelecom.com. Included in this release are "forward-looking statements" that the Company believes falls within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities 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 reflected in such forward-looking statements will prove to have been correct. The Company's actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements as a result of certain factors including sales levels, distribution and competition trends and other market factors. Copyright (C) 1999 Business Wire. All rights reserved.