LONDON – November 21, 2006. LignUp Corporation, a leading provider of converged communications solutions, today announced that Band-X, a leading provider of managed infrastructure and interconnection services, will join the FastLign alliance to offer managed IP telephony services to service provider customers in Europe. An alliance founded by LignUp, NexTone Communications, FastLign utilizes Telia Sonera International Carrier (TSIC)’s extensive IP network in Europe to accelerate the adoption of IP telephony services by providing a managed services platform that allows service providers to rapidly and cost-effectively deliver competitive hosted services.

Faster time to market By providing the advantages of a fully managed and supported service using the combination of Band-X and TSIC’s capabilities, the FastLign alliance reduces deployment timetables and upfront and ongoing operating costs for hosted telephony service providers. In this way, FastLign will reduce a service provider’s “time-to- market” from several months to a matter of days. “Band-X’s expertise in providing managed infrastructure including hosting and facilitating the interconnection of traffic is a critical part of delivering managed VoIP services” said Richard Elliott, Chairman, at Band-X. “Our existing relationship with existing FastLign partners, NexTone and Telia Sonera International Carrier (TSIC) made Band-X a natural choice to provide these services to FastLign customers”.

Delivering customized and differentiated services While delivering the benefits of a fully managed service, FastLign also allows service providers to differentiate themselves in the marketplace. Service providers can speed their time to market for service offerings by easily adapting and deploying a variety of turnkey applications from LignUp and other FastLign partners. LignUp’s flexible platform for innovation allows the easy development of unique hosted voice applications that further differentiate service providers. FastLign service provider customers license solutions directly from FastLign Alliance member companies. This licensing model enables them to fully modify and customize their services to address the specific needs of their customers.

“Service providers have traditionally needed to build these services from the ground up, integrating a wide variety of technologies and services to provide a complete services solution”, said Richard Kirk, VP EMEA, LignUp Corporation. “FastLign provides service providers with a better approach using a hosted telephony services model that removes the expensive burden of system integration and provides operations support and allows customers to address the needs of the marketplace. LignUp is pleased to be working with Band-X as one of our FastLign partners to provide service providers with a robust managed services offering and a flexible development platform thereby giving them a competitive advantage”.

About Band-X Founded in 1997, Band-X is a privately owned company, headquartered in London, with investors including Madison Dearborn and Morgan Stanley Venture Partners. Companies that rely on Band-X to deliver telecoms services at the best price and quality include telecommunications operators, value added service providers, VoIP providers, premium rate network operators, global carriers, internet service providers, content providers and larger business customers. Band-X provides these customers with Managed Switch Partitions (either traditional voice, softswitch or session controller), Wholesale Calling Card services, Managed VoIP Gateway services and full A-Z of international termination. For more information visit our web site www.band-x.com

About LignUp Corporation LignUp Corporation delivers a powerful converged IP communications platform deployed with hosted telephony, voice mail, unified messaging, auto attendant and other Web applications. The 100% software, native-SIP platform is powered by LignUp Call Control XML (CCTRL) and LignUp Media Control XML (MCTRL) and enables solution integrators and service providers to quickly and easily create unique, high margin VoIP applications and services. The proven LignUp Communications Platform is deployed today in over 110 enterprises and 20 service providers around the world and is distributed in Japan by SkyWave and SkyWave partners Hitachi IT, NEC-SI and Net One Systems. LignUp has been named to the Pulver 100 list of leading private VoIP companies, and has been recognized for innovation with the TMC Labs Innovation Award and the EuroStart Channel Excellence Award. LignUp is also a founding member of FastLign, an industry alliance formed to reduce interoperability risks and increase speed to market for VoIP service providers. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, LignUp has offices in Salt Lake City, London and Tokyo. Visit www.lignup.com for more information.

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