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TSIS NEWS Tuesday March 23, 9:00 am Eastern Time Company Press Release Interactive Telesis Announces Long Term Multi-Million Dollar Business Relationship with the World's Largest Dedicated Teleconferencing Company, Frontier Confertech SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 23, 1999--Interactive Telesis Inc. (ITI) (OTCBB:TSIS - news), a leader in interactive corporate communications today announced a major, long term business relationship, with Frontier Confertech, the largest dedicated teleconferencing company in the world. Frontier Confertech is a business unit of Frontier Corp. (NYSE:FRO - news). ITI's relationship with Frontier has generated an excellent long-term revenue stream that is anticipated to increase in concert with the dynamic growth of Frontier's teleconferencing business. As a result of the new Frontier business relationship, ITI's record and replay revenues nearly doubled in size during the month of January 1999. The agreement recently signed with Frontier Confertech calls for ITI to provide ongoing digital conference call recording & replay solutions for Frontier's operations throughout the U.S. and Canada. Frontier now also offers the unique Internet services detailed in ITI's March 12th news release to its clients. Frontier provides both telephone and Internet based recording & replay of conference calls for its clients since recently going live on ITI's systems. ITI digitally records an audioconference call and then makes the recording available for replay over a toll free number and/or on any website chosen by one of Frontier's business customers. In addition to Frontier's own teleconferencing business, Frontier also provides conference call platform services to major telecom clients such as US West and Nortel Networks. These powerful companies and their customers will now also benefit from ITI's unique recording & replay services through Frontier's relationship with ITI. ''This continues the success of our highly focused business development strategy,'' said Interactive Telesis President and Chief Executive Officer, Donald E. Cameron. He added, ''We have set our sights on achieving the dominant position in the conference call recording & replay business. Frontier Confertech, is the number one dedicated teleconferencing company in the world. Winning their business takes us long way towards our goal. ITI has the demonstrated ability to achieve its goals while providing the quality and level of service expected by the world's leading telecommunications companies.'' About Interactive Telesis Inc. Interactive Telesis Inc. (www.intelesis.com) is a leading provider of comprehensive IVR solutions to some of the largest and most progressive companies. Interactive Telesis' family of products and services include: -- InvestorREACH - A 24 hour, 7 day a week, toll free Interactive Voice Response (IVR) shareholder communication service. Call 888/812-2020 for ITI information. Clients include among others: Nike, Yahoo!, Wells Fargo, Aon Corp. and Mutual of New York. -- Teleconference Record & Replay (R&R). A telephone-based conference call record and replay service. Clients include AT&T and Frontier Confertech. -- Internet Record & Replay (IRR). An Internet-based conference call record and replay service. Clients include Frontier Confertech with AT&T and MCI expected soon. -- TeleSURVEY -- A telephonic automated survey service that is revolutionizing the survey industry with an automated survey system that costs up to 8 times less and delivers live survey results in real time over the Internet to major Telecom clients and their customers. Clients include among others, Bell Atlantic, MCI, Ameritech, Southern New England Bell, Alltel, GTE and Quest Communications. About Frontier Confertech
Frontier Confertech is one of the conferencing industry's premier suppliers of audio and data conferencing solutions and the largest dedicated teleconferencing company in the world. The company provides both low and high-end solutions for ''business critical'' conferencing. Among these solutions are multimedia teleconferencing services, teleconferencing bridges and teleconferencing network solutions. From reservation-free, on-demand conferencing, to broadcasting slides, graphics or documents over the Internet while simultaneously conducting a traditional audioconference call, Frontier remains a pioneer in offering innovative solutions in the conferencing industry. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact: Interactive Telesis Inc. JJ Jeffrey, 888/546-2957 jjeffrey@intelesis.com