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IVI Communications, Inc. Retains Mergers and Acquisitions Specialist, Stanton Walker & Company, and SEC Counsel, Silicon Valley Law Group

Posted on: Thursday, 22 September 2005, 12:00 CDT

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IVI Communications, Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: IVCM) is pleased to announce its retention of Stanton Walker & Company and Silicon Valley Law Group.

IVI Communications has signed a business advisory and consulting services agreement with New York-based Stanton Walker & Company. Stanton Walker will assist in the evaluation of certain strategic business decisions facing the Company. IVCM is in discussion stages with several companies regarding acquisitions and potential mergers. Stanton Walker's work will include due diligence, structuring transaction terms and providing consulting services throughout the process. Stanton Walker will also seek potential acquisition candidate companies that fit IVCM's business objectives.

Both Richard Stanton and Richard Walker, principals of Stanton Walker, have extensive experience working in and consulting to both private and public companies. They have founded, operated, and grown small private and public companies themselves.

In addition, IVI Communications, Inc. has retained Cathryn Gawne and Ron Austin of the San Jose, California law firm, Silicon Valley Law Group (http://www.svlg.com/), to advise them with respect to securities compliance matters. Silicon Valley Law Group is a business and technology law firm specializing in corporate and securities law, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, commercial real estate and high stakes business and intellectual property litigation.

Nyhl Henson, Chief Executive Officer, stated, "The rapid growth of our company has necessitated the retention of these two highly qualified firms. We look forward to evaluating opportunities that could further enhance our company's revenue and profits and provide additional capital to execute the Company's growth plans. These goals will require the assistance of specialized experts. We feel that Stanton Walker and Silicon Valley Law Group provide the expertise and experience to help move our company to the next level."

About Stanton Walker & Company

Stanton Walker & Company provides a full range of strategic operational, marketing, financial advisory and M & A services to public companies. While they provide assistance in a wide array of industries, Stanton Walker is especially interested in working with companies where their products and/or services appear to offer the company's stakeholders an opportunity for a significant return.

About Silicon Valley Law Group

SVLG focuses on providing all the legal services required by middle market, emerging growth, and small public companies as well as, a broad range of sophisticated legal services for Fortune 1000 companies, banks, developers, and high net worth individuals.

About IVI Communications

IVI Communications, Inc. (IVCM) currently has two wholly owned subsidiaries, Internet Business Consulting, Inc. and AppState.Net. IBC is a leading provider of turnkey wireless networks that has the expertise required to engineer, install, and support wireless applications and solutions. AppState.net is an Internet Service Provider founded in July 1999 providing wireless and dialup Internet access to the Appalachian State University town of Boone, NC. IVCM utilizes the Boone market and its student population as a test market for new services that will be marketed nationally. IVCM currently generates revenue of over $3 million annually.

IVI Communications will continue to implement its plan to acquire, consolidate and profitably operate locally branded ISPs that will offer state of the art dialup, Lickity-Split(SM) wireless Internet access, and VoIP services to residential and business customers. Through consolidation, economies of scale are achieved and profit is maximized. As more compelling content becomes available, the management of IVCM believes that the demand for broadband services will increase dramatically. ISPs having a track record of success in broadband will not only retain customers by converting their dialup customers to broadband but will acquire new customers who migrate from other dialup providers.

Please visit our website at http://www.ivn.net/ for more information. Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains certain forward-looking statements, which are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Expressions of future goals and similar expressions reflecting something other than historical fact are intended to identify forward-looking statements, but are not the exclusive means of identifying such statements. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those currently anticipated. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, market acceptance of products and technologies, competitive factors, the Company's ability to continue to secure sources of financing and other factors described in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company undertakes no obligations to revise or update any forward-looking statements in order to reflect events or circumstances that may arise after the date of this press release.

For Investor Relations: Blue-Sky Solutions, LLC Stephanie Soleas (877)4-BLUE-IR ivcm@blueskyir.com

IVI Communications, Inc.

CONTACT: Stephanie Soleas of Blue-Sky Solutions, LLC, +1-877-425-8347,ivcm@blueskyir.com, for IVI Communications, Inc.

Web site: http://appstate.net/

Web site: http://www.ivn.net/

Source: PRNewswire-FirstCall

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