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CALLING CARDS February 15 · 2008 - 16 Spot Rates By using AXCESSRATE spot market price and quality data, or any portion thereof, you agree: 1. Such price and quality data shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium. 2. Arbinet-thexchange, Inc. will not be held liable for any delays, inaccuracies, errors, or omissions therefrom, or in the transmission or delivery of all or any part thereof or for any damages arising from any of the above. What is AXCESSRATEsm? AXCESSRATE provides pricing and quality information for international wholesale minutes. This information, powered by real-time trading activity on Arbinetthexchange, is the standard industry reference for voice minutes pricing and quality. Currently, hundreds of carriers use AXCESSRATE to increase the profitability of their trades. •• The Prepaid Press welcomes other exchanges and carriers who wish to also provide information. Contact us at editor@ prepaid-press.com if you would like to discuss involvement. Please note that Spot Rate is not an advertisement and does not represent an offer to sell at any particular rate. It is provided as a benchmark only. Interested parties should contact the carriers or exchanges directly for complete details. Price % Gainers (from 1/27/2008 to 2/2/2008) Country Destination UMI TOD CHANGE AVERAGE WEEK Rate ASR AVERAGE WEEK PRIOR Rate ASR Sierra Leone India India Mexico Germany Cuba Zimbabwe Mongolia Mexico Mexico Mobile - Comium Kerala Karnataka Monterrey Mobile - D1 (Tmobil) Proper Mobile - Econet Mobile Oaxaca De Juarez Culiacan SLCMM INKLAX INKNKX MXMTYX DETMM CUX ZWECM MNM MXODJ MXCUL All Day All Day All Day All Day Off-peak All Day All Day All Day All Day All Day +82.3 +51.3 +31.8 +30.5 +23.7 +22.1 +20.9 +19.8 +19.4 +19.0 $0.21320 $0.04767 $0.04215 $0.02162 $0.09349 $0.55709 $0.22488 $0.09633 $0.03034 $0.03148 42.2 45.8 47.0 53.6 34.1 45.9 40.2 58.6 34.9 58.5 $0.11694 $0.03150 $0.03199 $0.01657 $0.07560 $0.45641 $0.18607 $0.08043 $0.02541 $0.02646 59.0 40.7 48.6 52.7 24.2 45.3 21.3 46.5 39.3 57.9 Price % Losers (from 1/27/2008 to 2/2/2008) Country Destination UMI TOD CHANGE AVERAGE WEEK Rate ASR AVERAGE WEEK PRIOR Rate ASR Mexico Mexico Nepal Senegal New Zealand Bulgaria Philippines Russia Argentina Poland Tijuana Leon Mobile Dakar Mobile - Telecom Nz Mobile - Globul Mobile - Digitel Kazan Buenos Aires Mobile - PTC MXTIJ MXBJX NPM SNDKR NZTZM BGGBM PHDTM RUKZN ARBAS PLPZM All Day All Day All Day All Day All Day All Day All Day All Day All Day Weekend -69.9 -54.7 -42.0 -33.4 -27.6 -25.2 -21.7 -19.8 -16.4 -15.4 $0.01508 $0.01185 $0.04683 $0.00868 $0.12551 $0.18057 $0.09082 $0.01766 $0.00741 $0.05725 71.3 29.9 25.9 67.2 40.1 35.0 44.5 57.7 51.8 40.8 $0.05015 $0.02618 $0.08074 $0.01303 $0.17342 $0.24130 $0.11600 $0.02201 $0.00886 $0.06769 51.2 40.6 18.8 69.8 26.0 36.7 32.4 51.6 51.4 27.9 VSNL Wins ATLANTIC-ACM Award Global Wholesaler Called ‘Best-in-Class Data Price’ SINGAPORE (January 30, 2008) VSNL was presented with the “ATLANTICACM Global Wholesale Best-in-Class Data Price” award at the 4th annual Global Wholesale Carrier Excellence Awards on January 14, 2008. The awards, which were held during the 30th annual Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC) show in Honolulu, Hawaii, rank all viable carriers on a variety of service and product categories. Winners are derived from hundreds of wholesale customer evaluations of global carriers for the 2008 edition of ATLANTIC-ACM’s Global Wholesale Carrier Report Card – the global wholesale industry’s principal benchmarking study. “VSNL is honored to receive this prestigious award,” said Vinod Kumar, President of VSNL. “We will continue to offer our customers an advanced portfolio of wholesale data solutions that not only increases efficiency but are also costeffective.” The awards are based on scores provided by customers in an online survey, open to participation from mid-November through December of 2007. VSNL’s award win was based on the following data products: Transport (including Ethernet and Wavelengths), ATM/Frame and IP. “We were very happy to see VSNL do so well across the various data products that were rated,” said Fedor Smith, Vice President of ATLANTICACM. “While VSNL won an award for the price of their data products, it is important to note that VSNL also ranked 5th amongst Tier One providers, including ATT, BT, DT, Sprint and Verizon Business, for Data Quality.” Added Smith, “Customers have left little doubt that VSNL is offering very robust data products while remaining extremely price competitive.” In addition to this award, VSNL was named ‘Best Pan-Asian Wholesale Provider’ at the 2007 Capacity Magazine Global Wholesale Telecommunications Awards and ‘Best Wholesale Provider ‘at the World Telecoms Award in November 2007. ATLANTIC-ACM, a Boston-based research firm, provides strategic counseling and research services to leading business owners, operators and investors around the world. Source: VSNL International (www.vsnlinternational.com) http://www.electran.org http://www.electran.org http://www.vsnlinternational.com

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The Prepaid Press - February 2008 Beachfront Property for Sale Cardholder Facing Systems Contents The Retske Report: Getting the Word Out 5 Minutes With Mark Flanagan, CEO of PrepaidWireless.com Regulatory Rundown: Mid-Winter Update 2008 Prepaid Wireless Handsets Consumer’s Union Raps Wireless Industry Prepaid Reviews Launches Canadian Website Maginpins and TúYo Mobile Form Alliance Prepaid Wireless in Brief Boost Mobile Introduces New $1/Day Chat Plan Mobile Voice to Overtake Fixed in Europe Prepaid Wireless Roundup Another Kind of Prepaid Calling Spot Rates VSNL Wins ATLANTIC-ACM Award The Legal Line Calling Cards in Brief Sapotek Partners with DigiLinea Pactolus Goes Live at Cable MSO Low-Income Market Initiatives to Drive Mobile Banking Payments in Brief Monitise Americas Expands Payments Network Charge Anywhere Mobile POS Wins Award Hypercom Introduces System for Small Merchants TIO Networks Announces TIO Prepaid MasterCard NPBCA Makes Leadership Change A Walk Down the Aisle Branding Your Retail Store Retailers Welcome Senate Approval of Stimulus Bill NRF Forecasts 3.5 Percent Growth in Retail Sales Cyphermint Teams With DHL Retail Focus in Brief Our Advertisers Contact Us

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