GROUP LONG DISTANCE, INC. INTRODUCES GLD BUSINESS.NET, AN INTERNET ACCESS COMMUNICATIONS PACKAGE DESIGNED EXCLUSIVELY FOR BUSINESS.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 3, 1996--GROUP LONG DISTANCE, INC. (OTCBB: GLDT) announced today the introduction of GLD Business.Net, a communications package designed exclusively for business.

GLD Business.Net provides Internet access for both dial-up and dedicated applications, including ISDN and frame relay, with full Domain sites and Web pages. GLD Business.Net offers customers complete Internet integration services and unlimited dial-up access.

GLD Business.Net utilizes UUNet Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ/NMS: UUNT) as the backbone network for Internet connections. Currently, dial-up access is available in 230 cities, with more than 350 cities planning to be part of the network by the end of 1996.

Software in the GLD Business.Net package for dial-up accounts includes: Web Browser, Trumpet Winsock, IRC, Newsgroup, Gopher, Telnet, Iphone, Eudora Mail, FTP and others.

"It's truly a new wave of communications management," said Michael A. Mueller, Vice President of Marketing for GROUP LONG DISTANCE. "No other long distance company offers business this type of nationwide packaged billing. Bookkeeping and accounting is so much simpler with a single statement/single payment system. Our customers can have both their long distance charges and their Internet service charges on a single monthly invoice."

GROUP LONG DISTANCE, INC. is a non-facilities based reseller of long distance telecommunications services. The Company utilizes special network service contracts to provide its customers with direct access to various long distance telecommunications networks, such as AT&T network services and LDDS WORLDCOM. It also markets pre-paid calling cards, billing services, Internet integration services, International call-back and network management services.

CONTACT: GERALD M. DUNNE, CEO [phone]

LEONARDO G. ZANGANI, PR [phone]