PRESS RELEASE

FEBRUARY 13, 2004

Beacon Telecommunications Advisors

See The Light . . .

Deploy Tekno Telecom's NetQuest System

Naperville, IL (February 13, 2004) - Tekno Telecom, L.L.C., a leading telecommunications network monitoring provider, and Beacon Telecommunications Advisors, today announced that Beacon has selected Tekno Telecom’s NetQuest SS7 monitoring system to help validate their customers’ billing data. Beacon will be collecting SS7 CDRs for inter-carrier billing, access billing and PIU on their customers’ networks.

"We are pleased to team with Tekno Telecom to set up a single integrated system to provide a centralized platform allowing us to effectively capture, at our clients’ request, all traffic entering their networks," stated John Harris, Managing Partner of Beacon Telecommunications Advisors. "The live real-time data captured by the system and analyzed with the Beacon Information Advantage will provide the valuable intelligence our clients need for revenue assurance and possibilities for new revenue generation." The Beacon advantage is another example of how Beacon distinguishes itself from other consulting firms by having the vision and resources to provide value added services to the telecommunications industry.

"We are happy to join with Beacon to help independent carriers maximize their revenues," said Sam Galler, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Tekno Telecom. "There are billions of dollars of unbilled revenue each year and no one is affected more by this than the independents. Beacon will be using our NetQuest system to help collect the revenue and create revenue opportunities for independent telephone companies."

About Beacon

With Beacon, You’ll Never Be Operating in the Dark. In order to succeed, it’s important to have the valuable information you need, when you need it. Beacon will quickly provide you with additional support to produce the decision-making information you need in today’s competitive telecommunications market. While the chore of conducting compliance and cost of service studies may seem a sometimes, mundane exercise, we view it as a golden opportunity to help our clients improve profitability by literally hundreds of thousands of dollars. From cost of service studies, circuit pricing . . . enterprise, we can help.

Beacon Telecommunications Advisors is a financial and regulatory consulting firm providing financial and regulatory services to Independent Local Exchange Carriers throughout the United States.

For more information about Beacon, visit their web site at www.beaconbright.com.


About Tekno Telecom, LLC

Tekno started in 1968 in the telecom sector and has implemented over 10,000 systems worldwide. Migrating from call accounting systems to traffic management solutions (which front-ended switches) to call completion and billing systems. Tekno has been a pillar of telecom network management, maintenance, and revenue assurance solutions. Tekno focuses on high return on investment systems for wireline, wireless and next-generation carriers and has consistently brought to market products that were more advanced and accurate than its competitors. Its engineering team has generated numerous patents, which today allows offering supremely efficient and accurate systems necessary for today's carriers to confidently know what is occurring in their networks in order to solve problems and collect the revenues due to them. Tekno's focus has consistently relied on data/information collected, not from the switch, but directly from the network (MF, SS7, ATM, and IP, etc.). Network data is rich in information and Tekno's products use advanced techniques to extract and correlate tremendous volumes of data into useful information for the carriers. Most importantly, Tekno is on the cutting edge of technology and is ready for today's newest networks while still supporting legacy telecom networks. For more information about Tekno Telecom visit www.teknotelecom.com or call (630) 579-9800.
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Media Contact:

Deborah Stasiak
Tekno Telecom, LLC
Phone: (630) 579-9880, Ext. 238