pulver.com Announces Free World Dialup, Inc.; IP Telephony Takes Next Step Forward With First Global P2P Telephony Network.

Business Editors

MELVILLE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 3, 2001

Jeff Pulver, chief executive officer of pulver.com and a recognized industry leader in IP telephony (Internet protocol), today announced the establishment of a new company, Free World Dialup, Inc., the world's first global peer-to-peer Internet Telephony network. Marrying the popularity of peer-to-peer (P2P) networks with the newest Voice-over-IP (VoIP) technologies, Free World Dialup (http://www.freeworlddialup.com) is a revolution in the world of telecommunications and the next evolution in P2P networks.

Free World Dialup allows members of the Free World Dialup community to make phone calls for free around the world by enabling end-to-end IP communications using VoIP and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) over the Internet. "MP3 and Napster demonstrated the tremendous appeal of sharing and swapping information and entertainment," said Pulver. "In a perfectly legal fashion, Free World Dialup lets members of our community share their phone lines with each other."

Free World Dialup, Inc. is only the latest innovation by pulver.com to stimulate the emergence of IP Telephony as not only a viable but a competitive telecommunications technology. By foregoing the antiquated circuit-switched network of the incumbent carriers for the packet-switched network of the Internet space, IP Telephony can offer telephone services and a vast array of unprecedented new services at substantially less cost to the consumer than the traditional phone system.

"IP Telephony is the most exciting development we've seen in the telecom space since the explosion of wireless," noted William E. Kennard, former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. "It's a technology that empowers consumers and drastically reduces the cost of competitive entry into the phone business."

Industry leaders including Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) are also excited about the prospects for IP telephony. "I think Intel would benefit from the world's first P2P voice network. Free World Dialup is at the epicenter of a global shift in communication," said Pulver. "It is a ground breaking service utilizing P2P communities which we know Intel strongly believes in. P2P telephony will change the way people communicate and why they communicate," said Pulver.

"Free World Dialup will enable the increased use of IP telephony," said Alistair Woodman, Director of Marketing for Packet Telephony at Cisco Systems, which is providing much of the state-of-the-art equipment for Free World Dialup, Inc. "It will allow for greater real time voice communication between people all over the world. There is now another exciting reason to subscribe to new broadband services such as DSL and cable."

About pulver.com:

Jeff Pulver founded pulver.com at the end of 1994. In addition to producing the highly successful VON conferences, pulver.com is engaged in many activities that promote the growth of communication technology. The pulver.com website (http://pulver.com) is a key source of information for those in the IP Communication industry and The Pulver Report (http://pulver.com/reports) is a widely read information source on the latest developments in emerging net technologies.

FREE WORLD DIALUP, INC. FACT SHEET

SUMMARY:

-- Representing a revolution in the world of telecommunications, Free World
Dialup, Inc. (http://www.freeworldialup.co m) is the world's first global
peer-to-peer Internet Telephony network.

-- Free World Dialup, Inc. merges the innate viralness and "givers-gain"
mentality of peer-to-peer communities with the newest Voice-over-IP (VoIP,
Voice over Internet Protocol) technologies.

-- Free World Dialup allows members of the Free World Dialup community to make
long distance phone calls for free using a normal analog telephone by providing
other members of the community access in sharing their local PSTN connection.

HISTORY:

-- The current incarnation of Free World Dialup, Inc. is the 3rd

generation of the service.

-- The Free World Dialup project got started in the fall of 1995,

when several IP engineers and entrepreneurs began throwing

around the idea of "patching" Internet phone to regular

telephone lines in order to allow true "patching" of

international phone calls over the Internet. Free World Dialup

was designed not just for people with computers but for

anybody with access to a phone.

-- As commercial VOIP gateways became available, Free World

Dialup II in 1997 was the first free network to provide a free

phone-to-phone service to over 15 countries using commercial

hardware and software.

AVAILABILITY:

-- The Free World Dialup service is currently in "alpha" testing

and is not yet open to the general public, although it will be

in June, 2001.

-- Free World Dialup will be available in 25 cities throughout

the world, with more cities and countries coming online every

day. The first cities are:

Freemont, CA      South Orange, NJ     Adelaide, Australia
San Diego, CA     Great Neck, NY       Brisbane, Australia
Gainesville, FL   Ft. Worth, TX        Burnie, Australia
Oahu, HI          Seattle, WA          Hobart, Australia
Pearl Harbor, HI  Tacoma, WA           Launceston, Australia
St. Louis, MO     Milwaukee, WI        Melbourne, Australia
Hackensack, NJ    Richmond, BC         Perth, Australia

Sydney, Australia
Hong Kong, China
Sundby, Sweden
Stockholm, Sweden