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Microcap & Penny Stocks : FRANKLIN TELECOM (FTEL) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: taxgun who wrote (40836)	3/1/1999 10:45:00 AM
From: David D.	Respond to of 41046

More news on FTEL. (2nd announcement today. TWO more to come. I just bought more shares. GGGGG Monday March 1, 10:15 am Eastern Time Company Press Release Franklin Telecom Introduces Internet Gatekeeper Franklin Gatekeeper Optimizes VoIP Interoperability WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 1, 1999-- Franklin Telecom announced today that it is introducing its new Franklin Gatekeeper this week in Los Angeles. The Gatekeeper enables interoperability between Franklin's family of VoIP products and H.323 compliant products from other vendors. Franklin's Tempest® Data Voice Gateway Systems equipped with the Gatekeeper can enable Computer to Phone, Computer to Computer and Web to Call Center communications. (The Tempest DVG also facilitates calls from any phone to any other phone.) The Gatekeeper can be run on the same Microsoft NT Server that is running Franklin's proprietary Authentication, Mapping, and Settlement (AMAS)/Billing system. The Gatekeeper is available as an annual software support license. This will insure Franklin customers that as standards evolve and become more sophisticated, their Gatekeepers will keep pace with these changes. The Gatekeeper, in conjunction with other Franklin Telecom products, will be demonstrated March 2-4th at CTExpo '99 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Franklin Telecom will be in Booth 3301. This is the second of four announcements that will be made prior to the show. The primary business of Franklin Telecom, founded in 1981, is the design and manufacturing of communications devices, high speed LAN, WAN, Telco and software. Franklin customers have installed over 100,000 nodes worldwide. Franklin's Internet subsidiary FNet provides Voice over Internet Protocol global Telco services. Certain statements in this press release constitute ''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. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance, or achievements of the Company to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements, expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. For additional information about this announcement, visit the Officer's Message page at Franklin's Web Site: -- www.ftel.com -- www.franklin.net - for Internet Services and Access -- www.fnet.net - for Internet Telephony & Franklin's Next Generation Telephone Company -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact: Franklin Telecom Helen West for Shareholder Relations, 805/373-8688 or