Darin Hunsaker Joins Q Comm as Vice President of Sales.

Business Editors

OREM, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 12, 2004

Q Comm International Inc. (Amex: QMM; QMM.WS), a provider of prepaid transaction processing and electronic point-of-sale (POS) distribution solutions, today announced that Darin Hunsaker has joined the company as vice president of sales as of Jan. 7, 2004.

Hunsaker is an experienced senior sales executive. He has held various sales leadership positions over the past 13 years, including positions with large organizations such as WordPerfect and PowerQuest. Hunsaker has a wide range of experience which includes selling through both direct and indirect channels to Fortune 500 companies as well as small and large retail accounts. Since January 1996, he has worked at PowerQuest, a high-growth computer storage management company. During his eight years there, PowerQuest grew from $1.8 million in sales to more than $60 million. His experience and positions at PowerQuest include senior director of enterprise sales, vice president of global accounts, managing director and senior director of European sales, and director of channel sales and marketing. As managing director and senior director of European sales, Hunsaker was instrumental in opening PowerQuest's European headquarters in Germany. Under his leadership, PowerQuest's sales teams consistently exceeded their targets. Hunsaker earned a bachelor's degree in German and business management from Weber State University.

"We are very excited to have Darin Hunsaker join the Q Comm team," said Terry Kramer, interim president of Q Comm International Inc. "He is a strong sales leader that will be a great foundation for us to expand our growth activities. He has experience selling a broad array of products through both direct and indirect channels. He can grow this business in a lot of different directions through a variety of business models which he has proven by achieving significant results in all of his previous positions. He also brings us strong international experience and will be a key driver of our global expansion. We wholeheartedly welcome Darin Hunsaker to the Q Comm team."

About Q Comm International

Established in 1992, Q Comm International provides proprietary prepaid transaction processing and information management systems that facilitate electronic recharge or distribution of prepaid products from service providers or their distributors to retail points of sale. Q Comm's solutions replace traditional hard cards (also known as scratch cards or vouchers) that are costly to distribute, and provide more comprehensive reporting and inventory management among other benefits. In concert with its proprietary data center platform, Q Comm's point-of-sale terminal, Qxpress 200(TM), is currently used by wireless carriers or mobile operators, telecom distributors, and various retailers to sell a wide range of prepaid products and services including prepaid wireless or prepaid mobile, prepaid phone cards, prepaid dial tone and prepaid bank cards, such as prepaid MasterCard. Visit www.qcomm.com for more information.

This press release contains forward-looking statements involving risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated due to a number of factors, including shortages of raw materials, the company's financial condition and cash flow, and general economic conditions. The company's plans and objectives are based on assumptions involving judgments with respect to future economic, competitive, regulatory and market conditions, and future business decisions, all of which are difficult or impossible to predict accurately and many of which are beyond the company's control. Therefore, there can be no assurance that the forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate. The company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether because of new information, future events or otherwise.