Consumer Oriented Long Distance Site, ABellTolls.com, Adds 'The New Low Cost Leader,' GTC Telecom's Five Cent Per Minute, No Monthly Fee Plan to List of Qualified Carriers.

COSTA MESA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 8, 1999--

GTC Telecom (OTC BB:GTCC) today announced that A Bell Tolls, LLC has added GTC's long distance plans to its extensive up-to-the-date listing and comparisons of long distance plans on its consumer oriented website www.ABellTolls.com.

The site allows consumers to comparison shop for the long distance plan that best suits their long distance needs. ABellTolls.com has taken these long distance plans and broken them down, illustrating all monthly fees and hidden fees that consumers might not typically catch. Major press figures have taken note of the site's thorough breakdown of the long distance industry. Cnet.com and AOL (NYSE:AOL) owned Netscape Netcenter both used ABellTolls.com's rate comparisons in some of their feature articles.

In addition, CBS (NYSE:CBS) Channel 2000, Los Angeles states that "ABellTolls.com is one of the best consumer-oriented phone sites." MSNBC, CNBC and the Wall Street Journal Business News call the site "the largest clearinghouse for long distance on the Net." A recent article by CBS Marketwatch also states that the FCC now recommends ABellTolls.com to "do the cost calculation for consumers and provide them (consumers) with useful information for comparison shopping."

Marc-David Seidel, Co-Founder of A Bell Tolls, LLC commented, "ABellTolls.com provides the most comprehensive comparison of long distance rate plans on the web. Adding coverage of the new low cost leader on interstate calls makes good sense. Our visitors will be extremely interested to learn of the new options available from GTC Telecom."

About A Bell Tolls, LLC

ABellTolls.com is a clearinghouse for long distance telephone and telecommunications information and a one-stop shop for long distance shoppers. It was the first free unbiased consumer comparison site of long distance telephone plans to include information on carrier specific fees such as the USF and PICC for all of the major carriers including AT&T (NYSE:T), Cable and Wireless (NYSE:CWP), Global Crossing (Nasdaq:GBLX), IXC Communications (Nasdaq:IIXC), MCIWorldcom (NYSE:WCOM), Qwest Communications (Nasdaq:QWST), and Sprint (NYSE:FON).

It includes links to all of the major (and some not so major) long distance companies, as well as the most comprehensive and up to date comparison database of long distance rate plans for intrastate, interstate, international, 1010 dial around plans, toll free rates, and calling cards. Consumers can compare over 100 long distance plans in one convenient location using standardized data on the ABellTolls.com website located at: http://abelltolls.com/

About GTC Telecom

Founded in 1997, GTC Telecom 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 (Nasdaq:QWST) and IDT Corp. (Nasdaq:IDTC) among others. GTC Telecom offers a five-cent per minute anytime, anyday long distance rate plan with no monthly fee.

Consumers that choose not to be billed on a credit card will be charged a $1.95 per month processing fee. 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. In addition, GTC offers an array of other Internet services, including wireless T1 access, web hosting at www.gtcinternet.com, and a portal site, www.gtczone.com. The Company also offers long distance calling cards via the Internet on its site, www.ecallingcards.com. For further information visit GTC's web site at www.gtctelecom.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.