MCI ANNOUNCES NEVER BUSY FAX SERVICE; New 800-Based Fax Service Provides Broad Array of Delivery Options

Business Wire, June 18, 1996

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 18, 1996--MCI today announced a powerful new inbound fax collection service, MCI Never Busy Fax. MCI customers will never have to miss another fax. MCI Never Busy Fax is always available to receive and deliver fax messages.

Each subscriber to the new service receives a unique 800 number that becomes the subscriber's new fax number. MCI becomes the collection and delivery agent for the faxes sent to the 800 number.

"MCI Never Busy Fax service is ideally suited for businesses that receive a large number of faxes and provides customers with several choices in delivery destinations," said Martha Hanlon, director of messaging services, MCI.

"Unlike many of our competitors who only offer one or two delivery options, MCI Never Busy Fax service offers subscribers the broadest range of delivery options available. They can choose to have their collected messages sent to a fax machine, local area network, internal electronic mail system, or to a host computer."

MCI Never Busy Fax provides subscribers with a robust set of options and features for managing inbound fax messages. These features are:

o Never busy access o Simple fax tone or voice-prompted interface o Store and forward message handling o Message format conversion -- to TIFF for viewing, PCL for

printing o Use of routing codes to internal end-user delivery o Custom terminal ID -- "answerback" to sender's fax machine

Message distribution options include:

-- Fax -- Local area networks, e.g. Lotus ccMail, and others, -- Host environments -- Message distribution via high speed pathways -- Dedicated private lines, frame relay, TCP/IP, SNA LU6.2 -- Switched public access, e.g. asynch, bisynch, Zmodem -- Customized interfaces.

In addition, MCI Never Busy Fax service provides customers with end-of-day and summary reports for managing their inbound fax traffic.

MCI, headquartered in Washington, D.C., is one of the world's largest and fastest growing diversified communications companies. With annual revenue of more than $15 billion, MCI offers consumers and businesses a broad portfolio of services including long distance, wireless, local, paging, messaging, Internet services, information services, outsourcing, and advanced global telecommunications.

CONTACT: MCI Telecommunications

John Houser, 312/938-4820