CallingPlanet.com Launches for International Long Distance.

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COSTA MESA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 24, 2000

GTC Telecom's PC to Phone Technology Website Opens the Door Into

the VoIP International Long Distance Marketplace

GTC Telecom (OTCBB:GTCC) today announced that CallingPlanet.com, the Company's PC to Phone website, is now operational and conducting business. This will mark GTC Telecom's major entry into the international long distance market.

Through CallingPlanet.com, GTC Telecom now offers consumers an unprecedented low cost option for international calling. The Company has created a PC to phone connection process that allows a customer to place a phone call from anywhere in the world to certain destination countries for rates that are well below current standards. GTC's first major market focus will be on calls from India to the US, which are offered at a low rate of 10 cents per minute.

Paul Sandhu, CEO of GTC Telecom commented, "GTC has a great foothold in the domestic long distance industry and is clearly the low cost option for consumers. We have the same goals for our international programs as well. After much development and study, GTC has now launched CallingPlanet.com to do just that. CallingPlanet.com will allow GTC to offer the latest in innovative long distance technology coupled with low GTC rates."

"Our first major focus will be in India where there is a huge demand for a low cost international option for calls into the US. There is a tremendous opportunity in the international marketplace for GTC because there are so few carriers that are offering a low rate option as well as PC to Phone technology."

CallingPlanet.com, located at www.callingplanet.com, a web-based PC-to-phone service, deploys state-of-the-art Voice over IP switch-based systems as well as Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) NetMeeting's(R) ActiveX dial pad technologies. This PC-to-phone system is also affiliate and reseller ready allowing for localized distribution of service in the international markets. The International calling community, leveraging U.S. based services and lower rates, can now benefit from this low cost service.

CallingPlanet.com's enhanced technology will allow customers to utilize services much like its other companies in this business sector such as, Delta Three (NASDAQ:DDDC), Net2Phone (NASDAQ:NTOP) and Urus Telecom's (NASDAQ:UTCC) The Stream.com.

"In addition, we are also focusing our initial rollouts on countries where VoIP calling makes the most impact. India for example has become one of our major countries of concentration. The average cost of a long distance phone call to the United States is approximately $1.50 per minute. Utilizing CallingPlanet.com's technology, that same call over the Internet will be only ten cents per minute," Sandhu continued. "More importantly, according to Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) India's Net users will balloon from 2 million to 70 million within the next three years. By concentrating and entrenching GTC in India, we now hope to gain a major toe hold in that marketplace."

About GTC Telecom

Founded in 1997, GTC Telecom (www.gtctelecom.com) is a Telecom/Internet company, providing long distance service to small and medium sized businesses as well as residential customers throughout the United States. GTC Telecom has some of the lowest long distance rates in the industry today to compete with AT&T (NYSE:T), Sprint (NYSE:FON), Qwest Communications (NYSE:Q) and IDT Corp. (Nasdaq:IDTC) among others. GTC Telecom offers basic Internet and long distance bundled and non-bundled plans. For basic unlimited 56K dial up Internet access, GTC offers a plan for $9.95 per month. The Company is in the process of rolling out CallingPlanet.com, GTC's Voice over IP PC to Phone product, which will compare to services provided by Net2Phone (NASDAQ:NTOP) and Ursus Telecom (NASDAQ:UTCC). In addition, GTC offers an array of other Internet services, including wireless T1 access, DSL service at www.gtcinternet.com, and a portal site, www.gtczone.com.

Included in this release are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Although the company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements will prove to have been correct. The company's actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements as a result of certain factors including sales levels, distribution and competition trends and other market factors.