Lucent President John Meyer to Keynote Tenth INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO

Business Wire, Sept 8, 2004

NORWALK, Conn. -- President of Lucent Worldwide Services to Address Audience at Leading IP Telephony Conference in Los Angeles

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) today announced that John Meyer, president of Lucent Worldwide Services, has accepted an invitation to deliver a keynote address at INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO in Los Angeles. The conference takes place October 4-7, 2004. Mr. Meyer will speak Wednesday, October 6th at 4:45 pm. Admission to his address is free to all registered attendees.

INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO is a targeted and innovative four-day tradeshow featuring the most respected, objective education available for learning to select and deploy VoIP solutions. In addition to Mr. Meyer's keynote address, the show features three and a half days of conferences, many networking opportunities, and an Exhibit Hall featuring all of the latest IP telephony solutions.

"Lucent is a recognized VoIP pioneer. In his role as president of Lucent Worldwide Services, Mr. Meyer provides organizational leadership for developing and delivering a broad portfolio of telecommunications maintenance, deployment, managed and professional services to the world's largest service providers. We are proud that the hundreds of service providers who attend INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO will have the opportunity to hear his perspective on the great promise VoIP holds for them," said Rich Tehrani, TMC president and conference chairman.

Mr. Meyer headlines a program featuring other elite telecommunications companies like Nortel Networks, Inter-Tel, Siemens and AT&T. It is clear that this, the tenth INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, will boast the most impressive line-up of keynotes and presenters in the event's long history," said TMC president and conference chairman, Rich Tehrani.

"I'm delighted to have the opportunity to speak at this year's INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & Expo because VoIP continues to be one of the hottest technologies in the service provider market," said John Meyer, president, Lucent Worldwide Services. "As one of the leading VoIP vendors, Lucent is developing the products and services to gain value from the next-generation VoIP networks."

Registration for the show is now open. Anyone interested may register by visiting http://www.itexpo.com. Limited booth space is still available as well. Vendors interested in exhibiting at the show should contact Dave Rodriguez right away at 203-852-6800, ext. 146. Or send e-mail to drodriguez@tmcnet.com.

Press inquiries regarding John Meyer's appearance can be directed to Mostafa Razzak at 23-31 Communications: 646-442-3361 or e-mail m.razzak@23-31.com.

About TMC(R)

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes two magazines: Customer Inter@ction Solutions, and Internet Telephony, and the online publications, TMCnet.com, Planet PDA Magazine, WiFi Revolution, Alternative Power and BiometriTech. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. TMC also produces The VoIP Developer Conference, Speech-World, IP Contact Center Summit and The Global Call Center Outsourcing Summit. TMCnet.com publishes more than 25 topical online newsletters. For more information about TMC, visit its Web site at www.tmcnet.com.