VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Feb 15, 2001 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Information Highway.com, Inc. (OTCBB: IHWY) (www.ihiway.com ) today announced the completion of its Voice over IP (VoIP) Production Platform developed in partnership with Inglenet Business Solutions (www.inglenet.com ). This milestone complements the Company's pledge to bring new and innovative IT services and Software solutions to market for the digital generation. iPhone and PhoneEarth.com, the Company's Digital Voice over IP Services represents two of the major VoIP services that will be marketed to residential and business consumers respectively.
With the Company's iPhone gateway (www.IHIWAYPHONE.com ), basic and enhanced VoIP services may be offered to the Company's members through a free subscription-based service. The PhoneEarth business solution (www.PHONEEARTH.com ), a Web-based Internet telephone portal service allows businesses to tap into the important convergence of telephony and Internet. PhoneEarth will provide iHiway's business customers with a low-cost gateway to teleconferencing; call management, telephone directories, voicemail services and other Voice Over IP products.
The Company anticipates a rollout program for its iPhone gateway to begin in strategic locations throughout Canada and the United States between the 2nd and 3rd quarter 2001. SOVO Computer Center (www.sovo.net ) and Pavlik Travel Services Ltd. (www.pavliktravel.com ) will be the first companies to utilize the PhoneEarth.com VoIP services for its customers.
According to Jason Roth, CIO for Information Highway.com, Inc., Internet Telephony services will capture a conservative 5% of all the long distance calls worldwide by year 2002. The overall market for IP Telephony including services, hardware and software is projected to amount to US $9 Billion by the year 2003. Frost & Sullivan sees the industry growing from $19 Million in 1996 to over $1.5 Billion by 2001. Extrapolating from the limited subset of data, the Global Internet Gilder Technology Group suggests close to a ten-fold annual growth rate in the industry and Information Highway.com, Inc. intends to capitalize on the growth potential seen all over the world.
PhoneEarth, a proprietary technology of Information Highway.com, Inc. competes directly with IP Telephony providers IDT Corp., Net Speak Corp. Quest Communications, and Vocal Tec. Suppliers include Dialogic, Brooktrout, Analogic, Cisco, and 3Com.
About Information Highway.Com, Inc.
Information Highway.com is a leading Internet Service Provider engaged in Web content management and development, e-commerce, Voice over IP solutions, and Internet access and emerging Internet technologies.
The Company provides dial-up and ADSL fast Internet and dedicated Internet access as well as Web site hosting. The Company has business relationships with Yahoo Broadcast, AT&T and
Verizon.
For more information on Information Highway.com, visit www.information-highway.com.
CONTACT:
John Robertson
President and CEO
jrobertson@ihiway.com
1-800-665-4616 or 604-278-7494





