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VoIP Industry Authority Rich Tehrani Joins eLEC Advisory Board for VoX CommunicationsWHITE PLAINS, N.Y., May 9, 2005 - eLEC Communications Corp. (OTCBB:ELEC), a CLEC and integrated packet communications service provider, today announced that VoIP (voice over IP) industry authority Rich Tehrani has joined its advisory board to support eLEC's wholly owned subsidiary VoX Communications. Based in Celebration, Fla., VoX is a premier packet communications services provider deploying VoIP residential and business applications nationwide. "We're pleased to have Rich join our advisory board," said Michael Khalilian, chairman of eLEC's advisory board. "He will serve as a valuable advisor to VoX Communications as the company enhances its service offerings for packet telephony and VoIP," added Khalilian, who is also chairman and president of the International Packet Communications Consortium (IPCC), a technology forum working to advance VoIP over broadband cable, wireless and wireline. "VoX Communications has a unique VoIP technology offering that enables efficient bandwidth management. As a result, VoX can provide higher-quality VoIP calls and greater bundled features than many of its competitors," Tehrani said. "I am very excited to be working with eLEC and VoX to help them gain traction in this growing and evolving VoIP market," he added. VoX Communications offers VoIP services to the small business and residential marketplace. This feature-rich offering includes Call Hold, Call Waiting, Caller ID, Call Transfer, Hunt Groups, Do Not Disturb, Call Forward, International Call Blocking, Call Return, Repeat Dialing/Redial, Extension Dialing, Anonymous Call Rejection and email notification of voicemail, all at no additional charge. Add-on features include: Multibox Voicemail, Music on Hold, Corporate Conference calling, Reassign Phone, Find me/Follow me, Auto Attendant, and more. About VoX Communications VoX Communications is a wholly-owned subsidiary of eLEC Communications Corp., a 40-year old publicly held company. VoX provides enhanced Voice over IP (VoIP) telephone service to small business and residential customers who have a high-speed broadband Internet connection. VoX's VoIP service is a feature-rich, low-cost and high-quality alternative to traditional landline phone service. For more information, visit www.voxcommunication.net. About eLEC Communications eLEC Communications Corp., headquartered in White Plains, N.Y., is a publicly traded local telecommunications company that is taking advantage of the convergence of the technological and regulatory developments in the Internet and telecommunications markets. eLEC provides an integrated suite of communications services to business and residential customers, including local, long distance, dedicated access, and VoIP. For more information, visit www.elec.net. This release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. eLEC's actual results may differ materially from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause such a difference include, among others, certain risks and uncertainties over which the company may have no control. For further discussion of such risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see the discussions contained in eLEC's Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for the year ended November 30, 2004 and Quarterly Report on Form 10-QSB for the period ending February 28, 2005, and any subsequent SEC filings. |