eLEC's VoX Communications Selects UTStarcom to Provide VoIP Customer

    Business Editors/Telecommunications Writers

    CELEBRATION, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 12, 2005--eLEC Communications Corp.'s (OTCBB:ELEC) wholly owned subsidiary VoX Communications, a premier packet communications services provider concentrating on residential and business Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) applications nationwide, and UTStarcom, Inc. (Nasdaq:UTSI), a global leader in IP-based, end-to-end networking solutions and services, today announced that UTStarcom is VoX Communications' customer access device provider of choice for its VoIP service throughout the United States.
    VoX Communications will deploy UTStarcom's industry-leading Total Control 1000(R) enhanced data system and Total Control 1000 Universal Gateway powerful access solution, as well as UTStarcom's wide range of VoIP customer premises equipment (CPE), including UTStarcom's iAN-02EX VoIP Analog Terminal Adapter (ATA) for residential customers and UTStarcom's iAN-08E series VoIP Gateway for SOHO/Enterprise customers. UTStarcom's CPE product lines allow customers to realize next-generation, standards-based VoIP communications without replacing their existing phone equipment.
    "UTStarcom is a premier provider of proven edge technology in the VoIP industry, and we are thrilled to be partnering with them. They have proven to be dynamic and responsive to our needs and their aggressive approach to the VoIP market is very similar to ours," said VoX Communications President Mark Richards. "UTStarcom's reputation for superior voice quality, advanced voice and data features, as well as outstanding management and provisioning, is unmatched in the industry and combines well with our leading-edge softswitch technology."
    "The partnership with VoX Communications is a win-win for both companies," said John Giarolo, vice president of North American sales at UTStarcom. "VoX is a high-quality VoIP service provider that is run by the best in the business, and through this relationship, UTStarcom will be able to capture more of the U.S. residential and business VoIP market."

    About VoX Communications

    VoX Communications is a wholly-owned subsidiary of eLEC Communications Corp., a 40-year old publicly held company. VoX provides enhanced Voice-over-IP (VoIP) telephone service to small business and residential customers who have a high-speed broadband Internet connection. VoX's VoIP service is a feature-rich, low-cost and high-quality alternative to traditional landline phone service. For more information, visit http://www.voxcorp.net

    About eLEC Communications

    eLEC Communications Corp., headquartered in White Plains, NY, is a publicly traded local telecommunications company that is taking advantage of the convergence of the technological and regulatory developments in the Internet and telecommunications markets. eLEC provides an integrated suite of communications services to business and residential customers, including local, long distance, dedicated access, and VoIP. For more information, visit http://www.elec.net.

    About UTStarcom, Inc.

    UTStarcom is a global leader in IP-based, end-to-end networking solutions and international service and support. The company sells its broadband, wireless, and handset solutions to operators in both emerging and established telecommunications markets around the world. UTStarcom enables its customers to rapidly deploy revenue-generating access services using their existing infrastructure, while providing a migration path to cost-efficient, end-to-end IP networks. Founded in 1991 and headquartered in Alameda, California, the company has research and design operations in the United States, China, Korea and India. UTStarcom is a FORTUNE 1000 company.
    For more information about UTStarcom, visit the company's Web site at http://www.utstar.com.

    Forward-Looking Statements

    This release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. eLEC's actual results may differ materially from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause such a difference include, among others, certain risks and uncertainties over which the company may have no control. For further discussion of such risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see the discussions contained in eLEC's Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for the year ended November 30, 2004 and Quarterly Report on Form 10-QSB for the period ending February 28, 2005, and any subsequent SEC filings.
    This release contains forward-looking statements that are forward-looking in nature and are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause UTStarcom's actual results to differ materially. Readers are also referred to the risk factors identified in UTStarcom's latest Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K, as filed with the SEC.

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CONTACT: For VoX Communications, Celebration HighTech PR, Inc. Tammy Snook, 407-667-9355 tammysnook@hightechpr.net or For UTStarcom: Engage PR Stephanie Gallagher, 510-748-8200, x213 stephanie@engagepr.com

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