ERNEST COMMUNICATIONS INCREASES SERVICE AREAS

ALPHARETTA, GA -- Ernest Communications, Inc. (www.ernestgroup.com), a leading provider of local and long distance services announced an aggressive expansion plan for the remainder of 2004 with expected nationwide coverage.

Currently ECI services Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Washington with pending certification in Utah, Montana, Maine, Connecticut, Ohio and Illinois.

ECI offers business customers great savings on local and long distance services and the ability to receive one comprehensive paper or electronic invoice for all locations throughout the U.S., including Independent Telco regions, for all local and long distance communications services. As part of this expansion, ECI is implementing a new portal website to assist customers and agents in checking product availability, with access to pricing tools, on-line orders, on-line trouble reporting, and trouble status with additional tools to assist ECI’s agent partners in managing relationships with customers.

"We're very excited about our growth and the plans to increase our service levels to our customers in the coming year," said Jay Morris, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for ECI. "We want to be sure that as we expand our product portfolio along with our market footprint, we have the tools in place to help our employees, customers and agents manage the business effectively. We have built a very successful company serving large multi-location, multi-state customers. Our expansion and operational support systems upgrade is geared toward meeting customer demand for broader coverage and to maintain the highest quality of service and customer satisfaction.”