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Market Pulse Breaking News Alert for Thursday, Aug. 10, 2006: TLPE: TelePlus Unveils Spanish-Language Customer Care As It Prepares to Tap Into the Hispanic Community, the Largest Ethnic Group in the US!

Posted on: Thursday, 10 August 2006, 12:00 CDT

Market Pulse News Alert for this AM, Stocks to Watch are: TelePlus Enterprises, Inc. (OTCBB: TLPE), Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO), Softnet Technology Corp. (OTCBB: STTC) and Broadcom Corp. (NASDAQ: BRCM).

Investors need to be watching TelePlus Enterprises, Inc. (OTCBB: TLPE) this AM! TelePlus Enterprises is a provider of Wireless and Telecom products and services across North America. These products and services are provided through their wholly owned subsidiaries. TelePlus Wireless, Corp. operates a prepaid Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) under the Liberty Wireless brand, which it acquired from Star Number, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of InPhonic, Inc., on December 29, 2005. The company concentrates on reselling services carried over the Sprint Nationwide PCS Network, which reaches more than 250 million people in more than 4,000 cities and communities in the U.S. Maximo Impact operates a pay-as-you-go MVNO under the MX Mobile brand. Maximo Impact will also distribute Liberty Wireless products, which cater to the unbanked users in the United States and are primarily available via online distribution. TelePlus Connect, Corp. is offering landline, long distance and internet prepaid services to selected individuals in Canada who cannot obtain basic telecom services from traditional telecom carriers. Current estimates place the unbanked market in North America at 9.5% of total households and the market size is estimated at over $1 billion. TelePlus Connect is also the backbone of Bell Canada's Internet Dial Up service offered nation wide. The wireless industry is a vast and fast growing industry of the telecommunications sector. Prepaid wireless is the fastest growing segment within the wireless industry. In the US alone, this segment will grow from $10 billion in 2005 to $32 billion by 2008. TelePlus' 2006 business plan according to its previous estimates is to set a goal for the company to reach US $30 million in revenue and positive EBITDA for fiscal 2006, and the company is well on its way to reaching those numbers. TLPE has had several excellent news announcements out lately and one again before Thursday's bell announcing that it has unveiled its strategic provider of Spanish-language customer management support as it prepares to tap into the Hispanic community, the largest ethnic group in the US! This could be great news for investors!

TelePlus Enterprises, Inc. (OTCBB: TLPE) (http://www.teleplus.ca) is pleased to announce that it has signed an agreement with its current provider of customer care management, PeopleSupport, Inc., a leading business process outsourcing (BPO) provider that offers customer management, transcription and captioning, accounts receivable management and additional BPO services from its centers in the Philippines, Costa Rica and United States, as its strategic provider of Spanish-language customer management support. The Spanish-speaking agents will support both TelePlus brands, Liberty Wireless and MX Mobile.

The Hispanic community constitutes the single largest ethnic group in the United States, currently representing close to 15% of the population, numbering at 41 million people. The projected Hispanic population of the United States for the year 2050 is of 102 million people. According to this projection, Hispanics will constitute 24% of the nation's total population on that date. (Source: US Census Bureau)

"As an MVNO, our success comes through marketing our products to specific market niches. The Hispanic community is the largest of such niches. Our products are well catered to the Hispanic community and the launch of our Spanish speaking customer care will allow us to get closer to the men, women and teens in that community. In the upcoming months, we intend to get even closer to them with the launch of Viva Liberty," commented Marius Silvasan, CEO of TelePlus. "TelePlus' choice to run the Liberty Wireless MVNO business from Miami, FL was a strategic choice as this location provides us direct access to several niche markets, including the growing Hispanic market, and we continue to create relationships with dealers and vendors in these markets," added Silvasan.

"Choosing to consolidate our dual language offering with PeopleSupport is clearly the most effective way to support Liberty Wireless and MX Mobile customers and dealers. Very few MVNOs are offering dual language live customer care agents and doing so fills a latent need in the market. Our Spanish language care service will become fully operational on August 21. Matched with our recently announced international long distance service agreement with MobileSphere, the Spanish customer care will open markets for Liberty Wireless and MX Mobile within a multitude of ethnic prepaid segments," commented Silvasan. "TelePlus has a wide distribution network; over 65,000 points of distribution, several of them such as Western Union are strategically located in areas which are densely populated by members of the Hispanic community, such as San Antonio, TX (58%), Miami, FL (65%) and El Pas, TX (76%). By offering Spanish-speaking customer care, TelePlus will leverage on this distribution network to significantly grow its customer base," added Silvasan. (Source: US Census Bureau)

TelePlus is holding its Q2 webcast on August 16, 2006 at 8:00 am ET. The webcast can be accessed at: http://phx.corporate-ir.net/playerlink.zhtml?c=144803&s=wm&e=1366007 or by calling 1-866-362-4832 -- participant code 10481867.

*All statistics are from the US Census Bureau

About TelePlus Enterprises, Inc. http://www.teleplus.ca

TelePlus Enterprises, Inc. ("TelePlus") is a diversified North American telecommunications company with offices in Miami, Florida; Cleveland, Ohio; Montreal, Quebec; and Barrie, Ontario. TelePlus was founded in 1999 and it has since become a leading provider of wireless and telecommunications products and services across the U.S.A. and Canada. In October 2003, TelePlus became a publicly traded Company on the OTCBB under the symbol TLPE and since then it has continued to grow organically and through strategic acquisitions. The company's wholly-owned subsidiaries include TelePlus Wireless, Corp. which operates a prepaid MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) under the Liberty Wireless brand; Maximo Impact, Corp. which operates a pay-as-you-go MVNO under the MX Mobile brand and TelePlus Connect, Corp. which resells landline, long distance and internet services under the Telizon, Freedom and Liberty brands. The company's websites include www.libertywireless.com, www.vivaliberty.com, www.maximoimpact.com and www.telizon.biz among others.

About TelePlus Wireless, Corp. http://www.telepluswireless.com

TelePlus Wireless, Corp. operates a MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) in the US under the popular Liberty Wireless brand. Under TelePlus' arrangement with Sprint(R), Liberty Wireless customers have access to service anywhere on the Nationwide Sprint PCS Network, reaching more than 250 million people. Mainly servicing unbanked consumers -- estimated to represent between 10% to 20% of the US population -- TelePlus resells prepaid wireless service to distributors and consumers out of its 65,000 points of distribution network. Analysts expect prepaid wireless to represent a $32 billion industry by 2008. The subsidiary is based in Miami, Florida.

About Maximo Impact, Corp. http://www.maximoimpact.com

Maximo Impact, Corp specializes in marketing and distribution as an MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) in the US and resells pay-as-you go wireless service under the MX Mobile brand to mass merchandisers, general retailers and c-channel retailers calling on convenience stores and gas stations. The subsidiary is based in Cleveland, Ohio.

Stocks in the news and acting well as of late include: Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO), Softnet Technology Corp. (OTCBB: STTC) and Broadcom Corp. (NASDAQ: BRCM).

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