Global Telemedia International Inc. Names COO and Additional Board Members.

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 21, 1999--

Global Telemedia International Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: GTMI-News; "GTMI") announced today that it has signed a three-year contract with Rene Fruto to serve as Chief Operating Officer.

In addition, the company has added Helen T. Rivilla as Corporate Secretary and Ambassador Ramon A. Tirol as a new member of the Board of Directors.

Fruto will oversee the implementation of international cash management and procedures to maximize the income tax-free status of Bentley House Furniture Company. He possesses expertise in the writing and implementation of procedural manuals for multiple national and international divisions. His manuals written for Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) are still in use.

Fruto is former Vice Chairman and CEO of Marina Bank, Marina del Rey, Managing Director of Marina State Bank , Vice Chairman of Western State Bank, President of First Central Bank NA, Executive Vice President of Trans National Bank and Executive Vice President of Pan American National Bank. He is a CPA and holds a B.Sc. in Accounting and a Masters in banking and finance.

Tirol an attorney, will focus on structuring international telecommunication and trade agreements in the Asian-Pacific region. He is a former Philippine Ambassador to Brunei and a former Commercial Attache to Bonn, Germany.

Rivilla is an international attorney practicing law both in the USA and the Philippines. She is well versed in international commerce.

GTMI will open its California offices by the end of June. This is expected to accelerate the implementation of international trade agreements between West Coast America and the Asian-Pacific region.

Global Telemedia International Inc. (GTMI) is a full-service communications company focusing on international communications networking in emerging countries. The company holds the necessary certificates of conveyance with applicable public service communications in the continental United States as well as an international carrier license. The company is also drafting telecommunications agreements with existing providers to expand their operations into Australian and the BIMP-EAGA countries (Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia & Philippines) that have combined populations of over 400 million people.

The statements contained in this release may contain forward-looking statements relating to such matters as anticipated financial performance, business prospects, technological developments, new products, research and development activities and similar matters. The Private Securities Reform Act of 1995 provides a safe harbor for forward-looking statements. In order to comply with the terms of the safe harbor, the Company notes that a variety of factors could cause the Company's actual results to differ materially from the anticipated results of other expenditures expressed in the Company's forward-looking statements.