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To: Mark Duper who wrote (58316)	12/28/1998 10:03:00 AM
From: Finder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 61433

Someone gets Bloomberg to run a story about insider selling with month old news (which they misreport to look worse than it really is) the day before a slow trading day to see if they can run down the stock on low volume day. It seems to be working marginally so far.

To: Mark Duper who wrote (58316)	1/4/1999 8:29:00 AM
From: Tim Luke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 61433

Monday January 4, 8:02 am Eastern Time Company Press Release SOURCE: Call Technologies, Inc. Call Technologies Joins Ascend's MultiVoice Alliance To Deliver Comprehensive Voice-Over-IP Solutions The Internet Voice Telephony Market Receives an Important Boost as Two of The Industry's Leaders in Enhanced Services and Internet Hardware Join Forces To Promote Voice-Over-IP Solutions RESTON, Va., Jan. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Call Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of network-based enhanced services and operational support systems, announced that it has joined the MultiVoice Alliance Program sponsored by Ascend Communications, Inc.(Nasdaq: ASND - news), a leader in wide area networking (WAN) and Intelligent Network (IN) solutions for providers and users of the next generation public network. The MultiVoice Alliance extends Ascend's offerings to provide best-in-class Voice-Over-IP (VoIP) solutions for enterprise and network service provider customers through key alliances with other leading application providers. Ascend Communications will now recommend Call Technologies' Call Courier products to next generation carriers in the VoIP arena. Call Courier is a suite of hardware-independent messaging solutions that provide capabilities including Unified Messaging and Internet voice messaging based on the H.323 standard. Carriers that choose solutions offered by Ascend and Call Technologies will be able to offer customers robust IP-based solutions for the complete range of voice services, with the same functionality and quality as traditional voice networks, at a lower cost. ''We're extremely pleased to welcome Call Technologies to our growing list of members in the MultiVoice Alliance Program,'' said Dick Slezak, Ascend's Vice President of Product Management. ''Call Technologies' next generation Unified Messaging platform represents the 'best in class' applications that Network Service Providers need to rapidly deliver high-profit, IP-based services.'' ''The rapid growth of the Voice-Over-IP market in 1998 demonstrates that Internet telephony has graduated from 'phenomenon' to service reality driven by strong customer demand,'' said Rich LaPerch, Call Technologies' Vice President and General Manager. ''As businesses and consumers turn to VoIP, they will choose carriers that offer levels of service and enhancements representing improvements over traditional telephony. Call Technologies is very proud to join with Ascend in developing IP telephony solutions that truly redefine the marketplace and set the course of telecommunications for the 21st century.'' Today's announcement is the first step in what Ascend and Call Technologies intend to be an evolving relationship to jointly develop products. The companies plan to introduce new offerings that extend the full functionality of Ascend's MultiVoice products to the applications running on Call Technologies' software-based messaging systems. Ascend's award-winning MultiVoice strategy is a comprehensive architecture for delivering voice and fax calls over IP, Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), and Frame Relay networks. The MultiVoice Alliance Program ensures that MultiVoice for the MAX customers are equipped with complete solutions that include application functionality beyond the Ascend VoIP/FoIP Gateway and Access Manager platforms. To meet growing customer needs, value-added partners supply mainstream applications, including billing, settlement/roaming, fax, multimedia and unified messaging. Ascend Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: ASND - news) develops, manufactures, sells and services wide area networking solutions for telecommunications carriers, Internet service providers and corporate customers worldwide. For more information about Ascend and its products, please visit the Ascend Web site at www.ascend.com, or send e-mail to info@ascend.com. Ascend is headquartered at One Ascend Plaza, 1701 Harbor Bay Parkway, Alameda, Calif. 94502; phone is 800-ASCEND4 and fax is 510-814-2300. With offices in Northern Virginia's high tech corridor in Reston, Call Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of hardware-independent, value-added enhanced service software and operational support systems to major telecommunications companies. Call Technologies also provides comprehensive messaging and provisioning, verification and notification systems. Visit Call Technologies' Web site at www.calltec.com.