Protus Introduces MyFax Internet Fax Services for Corporate Business Users; Online fax service saves organizations 85% on upfront costs and 34% on monthly costs over traditional fax servers

Business Wire, Jan 17, 2006

OTTAWA -- Despite the perception that we now live in an e-mail world, the use of faxes to conduct business continues to grow. To address these expenditures and other limitations of traditional faxing, Protus IP Solutions today announced the introduction of MyFax for corporate business users. MyFax, an internet fax service that allows business users to send and receive faxes using existing email accounts or the web, enables users to manage their fax communication and corresponding document management work flow more efficiently and at a lower cost than traditional fax servers or fax machines, regardless of physical location.

MyFax for corporations is an extension of the company's extremely popular MyFax service for consumers, home offices, and small business offices. The corporate version, is designed to meet the needs of businesses in the financial, insurance, healthcare, real estate, and government sectors with large user deployments that send and receive thousands of faxes each month. Businesses can send, receive, store or forward faxes securely without fax machines, dedicated fax / phone lines, long distance phone charges or fax modems. Subscribers can access their fax communications from anywhere, at any time, the same way they access their e-mail.

With no hardware or software to install, business capital expenditures are reduced, with a savings of 85% on upfront costs and 34% on ongoing monthly costs versus a conventional fax server. MyFax provides on-demand capacity and scalability, enabling organizations to process high fax volume requirements at anytime of the day, with no need to provision extra lines for peak delivery periods.

MyFax also addresses security concerns brought on by legislation such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Gramm-Leach-Bliley, and Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). Traditional fax machines often pose privacy and security threats as documents sit idle on shared fax machines. With MyFax, incoming faxes are sent directly to the intended recipient, ensuring confidentiality and helping organizations comply with privacy regulations.

"Faxing is an $80 billion market, and it continues to grow," says Joseph Nour, CEO of Protus IP Solutions. "Yet today's on-demand world, where corporations are looking for ways to support the increased mobility of their workforce while at the same time maintaining a high level of privacy and security, has created many new challenges. MyFax meets these business needs in ways that aren't possible with traditional fax services, with the reliability and comfort of knowing you're using one of the best-known brands in the business."

Benefits of MyFax for corporate users include:

--Easy to use - works as quickly and easily as regular email.

--No software or hardware to install, and no paper jams.

--Toll-free fax number at no additional charge.

--Faxes can be received as PDF documents.

--Online storage - Store faxes online. There is no limit to the quantity of faxes that can be stored.

--Send and receive from 3 emails per user

--Security and Privacy - password protection on a secure website and integration into your private email account also enhance security.

--Compliant with privacy regulations such as Gramm-Leach-Bliley and HIPAA in the United States and PIPEDA in Canada.

--Web Reporting

--Online account management tools. Add users, modify accounts and customize settings and options.

--Easy integration via XML.

MyFax is available for only $10 USD per month or $110 USD per year. This price includes 100 outbound pages and 200 inbound pages per month. Volume pricing is also available.

About MyFax

MyFax is an Internet fax service provided by Protus IP Solutions. Protus IP Solutions - a high-growth application service provider - offers value-added Internet fax communication and voice messaging services to businesses around the world. Since Protus was established more than 8 years ago, customers within the finance, insurance, real estate, pharmaceutical and retail industries have trusted their outsourced communication needs to our reliable service. We manage 600,000,000 faxes per year, we deliver 300,000 pages per hour, and we dial 320,000 calls per hour. On-line Internet fax services targeting Personal, Small Business and Corporate users are sold under the brand name MyFax. Protus solutions are sold both directly and through a network of worldwide partners, including major service providers. Additional information is available at www.protus.com or www.myfax.com.