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Corporate Profile for Q Comm International Inc., dated Oct. 6.


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Published Date:   Oct. 6, 2000

Company Name:     Q Comm International Inc.

Address:          1145 South 1680 West
                  Orem, UT 84058

Main Telephone
 Number:          801/226-4222

Internet Home
 Page Address
  (URL)           www.qcomm.com

Chief Executive
 Officer:         Paul Hickey

Chief Financial
 Officer:         Robert Sheidler

Investor Relations
 Contact:         Paul Hickey
 Business number: 801-226-4222
 E-mail address:  paul@qcomm.com

Public Relations
 Contact:         John Hickey
 Business number: 801/226-4222
 E-mail address:  john@qcomm.com

Industry:         Wireless, prepaid

Trading Symbol/
 Exchange:        OTCBB:QCCM


Company description:

COMPANY OVERVIEW

Q Comm See comms.  International Inc. is a leading infrastructure provider for prepaid pre·pay  
tr.v. pre·paid, pre·pay·ing, pre·pays
To pay or pay for beforehand.



pre·payment n.
 wireless replenishment replenishment

the addition of an appropriate quantity of properly prepared solution containing the correct concentration of chemicals to the developer solutions used in radiography.
 and other prepaid telecom services in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Utilizing its revolutionary, electronic point-of-sale activation activation /ac·ti·va·tion/ (ak?ti-va´shun)
1. the act or process of rendering active.

2. the transformation of a proenzyme into an active enzyme by the action of a kinase or another enzyme.

3.
 (POSA POSA Public Order and Security Act
POSA Pattern Oriented Software Architecture
POSA Passive Optical Sample Assembly
POSA Parks and Open Space Advocates (Seattle, WA)
PoSA Pomona College Student Art Gallery
) platform, Qxpress(TM), Q Comm currently delivers prepaid wireless and other services through hundreds of retail locations nationwide.

Qxpress(TM) delivers services on demand by accessing Q Comm's proprietary server network through a standard phone line. With Qxpress(TM), retailers avoid all inventory costs, out-of-stocks, and theft, and achieve many other benefits that traditional distribution systems fail to deliver.

Q Comm's Qxpress(TM) infrastructure solution essentially acts as a delivery conduit conduit /con·du·it/ (kon´doo-it) channel.

ileal conduit  the surgical anastomosis of the ureters to one end of a detached segment of ileum, the other end being used to form a stoma on the
 through which Q Comm can funnel an almost-infinite bandwidth of prepaid wireless and other services from an unlimited number of carriers to its expanding network of nationwide retailers.

This flexible electronic platform gives Q Comm, and its partner retail sites, the ability to exponentially ex·po·nen·tial  
adj.
1. Of or relating to an exponent.

2. Mathematics
a. Containing, involving, or expressed as an exponent.

b.
 grow sales and profitability in a short time at little additional overhead.

For its industry innovation and leadership, Q Comm was recently selected as one of the "Top 10 Companies to Watch for 2000" by Intele-Card News InteleCard News
Intele-Card News was once regarded as one of the most influential magazines in telecommunications. Typically, this type of publicaton is considered a trade journal.
, the prepaid telecom industry's leading publication.

INDUSTRY

With many industry analysts predicting that telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. , spearheaded by skyrocketing wireless growth, will lead the U.S. economy over the next decade, the Yankee Group (the Yankee Group, Boston, MA, www.yankeegroup.com) A major market research, analysis and consulting firm founded in 1970 by Howard Anderson. It provides general consulting and strategic planning in the computer and communications field.  goes a step further and labels prepaid wireless as the fastest growing segment of the entire wireless market.

One of the many market pressures driving the mushrooming growth of prepaid wireless is the fact that billable plans alienate To voluntarily convey or transfer title to real property by gift, disposition by will or the laws of Descent and Distribution, or by sale.

For example, a seller may alienate property by transferring to a buyer a parcel of the seller's land containing a house, in
 or completely ignore more than 28 million U.S. consumers who have poor or unestablished Adj. 1. unestablished - not established; "a reputation as yet unestablished"
constituted, established - brought about or set up or accepted; especially long established; "the established social order"; "distrust the constituted authority"; "a team established as a
 credit. Today, as in the past, billable wireless companies reject more than 33 percent of applicants due to poor or unestablished credit.

Driving the viral Meaning "related or caused by a virus," with regard to computers and information technology, the term refers less to a computer virus than it does to information that spreads quickly via the Internet. See viral marketing and viral video.  demand specifically for Q Comm's products is the fact that the company provides revolutionary solutions to each of the industry's key members including consumers who have been unserved by billable wireless plans; retailers who need to reduce inventory costs, out-of-stocks, and theft; undercapitalized Undercapitalized

A business has insufficient capital to carry out its normal functions.


undercapitalized

Of, relating to, or being a firm that has insufficient long-term equity to support its assets.
 resellers who need to migrate to a POSA platform or risk losing their business; and carriers who need retail distribution partners and improved inventory management.

Q Comm offers the technology, product solutions, and strategies to meet the needs of each of these key industry members.

STRATEGY

Q Comm's objective is to be the leading, electronic platform for prepaid wireless replenishment at retail locations throughout the U.S.

Key components of its strategy are to: control the retail end points for prepaid wireless replenishment; grow through resellers; focus on small to medium-sized retail chains; establish Qxpress(TM) as the industry's preferred product delivery platform; drive multiple revenue streams through its national network of retailers; and grow through acquisitions.

FINANCIAL

Through modifying its business plan at the end of 1999, Q Comm was able to double sales from first quarter to second quarter 2000 and anticipates similar strong financial growth in the future. To fund growth, the company intends to raise at least $2 million through equity financing Equity Financing

The act of raising money for company activities by selling common or preferred stock to individual or institutional investors. In return for the money paid, shareholders receive ownership interests in the corporation.
 by the end of 2000.

INVESTMENT HIGHLIGHTS:
-- Ground Floor of Emerging High-Growth Market -- Q Comm is on the ground floor
of one of today's fastest-growth, emerging markets. The skyrocketing growth of
the wireless telecom industry is being led by prepaid wireless which is
forecast by The Yankee Group to grow to more than $20 billion by 2002 and
account for 28 percent of all wireless phone payments by 2003.

-- Unique Market Solutions -- Q Comm provides revolutionary solutions to each
of the industry's key members including consumers who have been unserved by
billable wireless plans; retailers who need to reduce inventory costs,
out-of-stocks, and theft; undercapitalized resellers who need to migrate to a
POSA platform or risk losing their business; and carriers who need retail
distribution partners and improved inventory management.

-- Strategic Industry Positioning -- Q Comm is working to become the
infrastructural foundation upon which the entire prepaid wireless industry
builds by establishing its platform as the solution of choice among the prepaid
industry in order to capture a piece of all prepaid transactions whether sold
by the company, its expanding network of resellers, competing resellers, or
carriers.

-- Unlimited Growth Capacity -- Qxpress(TM) gives Q Comm a pipeline of
unlimited product delivery bandwidth into each of its many retail outlets
nationwide. Through its centralized, remote management and programming of
Qxpress(TM) units, Q Comm can quickly deploy new products through its national
network of retailers and rapidly boost sales at little additional overhead.

-- Demonstrated Success and Strong Company Growth Trend -- Q Comm is successful
in achieving contracts with large carriers such as Verizon Wireless as well as
many resellers such as CellCards who alone forecasts installing several
thousand Qxpress(TM) units within the next year. Through modifying its business
plan at the end of 1999, Q Comm was able to double sales from first quarter to
second quarter 2000 and anticipates similar strong financial growth in the
future.


Q Comm maintains a web site at www.qcomm.com.
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