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To: David Wiggins who wrote (577)	2/8/2000 10:13:00 AM
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ITXC and Onebox.com Partner Onebox.com to Offer Web-to-Phone Calling Using ITXC webtalkNOW! Service and ITXC to Offer Unified Messaging Hosted by Onebox.com SAN MATEO, Calif. and PRINCETON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE) --Feb. 8, 2000-- Onebox.com, Inc. has agreed to use ITXC Corp's (NASDAQ:ITXC - news) network and its ITXC webtalkNOW!(SM) Service to begin offering outbound real-time voice calling from its messaging service for its 2.5 million registered users through its native and outsourced messaging services. As part of the agreement, ITXC has agreed to offer Onebox.com's outsourced Internet-based messaging to its carrier affiliates covering 47 countries worldwide as part of an enhanced service offering. ITXC webtalkNOW! Service is the company's new wholesale web-to-phone service which operates over ITXC.net(TM), ITXC's global Internet telephony infrastructure which provides consistently high quality for real-time voice over the Internet. Onebox.com, the Communications Application Service Provider (CASP), is the leading provider of integrated Internet-based messaging services and currently delivers email, voicemail, and wireless applications to customers worldwide, such as Amazon, ZDNet, and Bolt. With a highly scalable, highly reliable pure IP infrastructure, Onebox.com is positioned to be a provider of the next-generation of communication services for outsourced customers. ITXC is the service providers' service provider for Internet telephony and operates ITXC.net, the largest worldwide network for voice on the Internet. Since April of 1998, ITXC.net has been used to provide traditional carriers international call completion with quality good enough for these carriers to use to serve their phone-to-phone customers. ITXC webtalkNOW! Service makes ITXC.net available to Internet portals and other Internet service providers as part of a wholesale web-to-phone offer so that they can offer their members the quality that phone customers already expect. ``We look forward to working with Onebox.com to meet the needs of service providers and their customers for unified messaging completely integrated with telephone calling,' said Tom Evslin, Chairman and CEO of ITXC. ``This is where communication is going now that high quality voice on the Internet is available. Existing technology from ITXC and Onebox.com is making it all available and accessible today.' ``Our partnership with ITXC complements our vision of providing carriers and web-based companies with Internet-based messaging services that can leverage real-time communications. ITXC is the ideal partner with its high quality, global network,' said Ross Bott, President and CEO of Onebox.com. ``Additionally, this relationship with ITXC enables Onebox.com to immediately reach carriers and web-based companies with our joint ASP services.' ITXC's multivendor, open standards approach based on the IMTC iNOW! Profiles allows ITXC to immediately partner with leading service providers like Onebox.com. ITXC will recommend Onebox.com's carrier grade, wholesale unified messaging product to ITXC's worldwide carrier customers and Onebox.com will recommend ITXC's Internet call completion to its wireless, portal, and carrier customers. Together, Onebox.com and ITXC offer a complete turnkey communications product. Onebox.com will extend its unified messaging suite by offering its users the ability to return and initiate voice calls from their online address books as a premier service. This new service allows those using Onebox.com to return voice mails and emails with real-time calls to ordinary telephones without logging off their PCs or requiring a second phone line. About Onebox.com: Onebox.com is the communications application service provider (CASP) hosting the global demand for wireless and Internet-based messaging. With a highly scalable, highly reliable pure IP infrastructure, Onebox.com provides services for phone carriers, ISP's and Internet portals to provide millions of customers worldwide with email, voicemail, and wireless applications. Onebox.com is a privately held company based in San Mateo, California. For more information, please visit www.onebox.com.