Contingent selects IBBS Commercial Voice services

Cincinnati-based commercial broadband and managed support service provider awards IBBS a multi-year contract for full complement of voice and advanced business features

ATLANTA - IBBS, the leading provider of voice and data services for broadband providers, today
announced that it has been selected by Contingent to provide a suite of commercial voice services and
applications for its multi-location customers and enterprise accounts. The multi-year voice deal is one of
several signed since IBBS acquired SinglePipe in its strategy to offer fully integrated data and voice
solutions to companies that seek to expand their advanced communications offerings.

"Choosing IBBS and its suite of commercial voice services was a strategic decision and opportunity to
advance our service offerings to our customers," said Mark Stuhlreyer, managing partner at Contingent.
"We are confident that the depth of expertise, the company's solid market position, and comprehensive
services will further position Contingent, and our customers, for growth."

Cincinnati-based Contingent offers managed secure wide area networks (sWAN), integration, logistics
and maintenance for large enterprises including multi-site retailers throughout the United States and
worldwide. The company deploys and maintains WAN infrastructure including circuits, security
appliances, routers, switches, wireless devices and other components found in large, multi-site
networks. Contingent serves companies across a wide variety of verticals including Fortune 1000
enterprises and medium-sized companies in retail, banking, finance, hospitality and others.

Contingent selected IBBS for its ability to deliver nationwide commercial digital voice services, the IBBS
server platform, and the company's proprietary back office provisioning platform. This distinct
combination permits IBBS to serve Contingent's multi-location commercial customers and their
communications and flexibility requirements. Further, Contingent found that IBBS' business approach
reflected its own operating model.

Leveraging IBBS' commercial voice services, Contingent will use line replacement or SIP trunking to serve
corporate headquarters offices. Satellite or franchise locations may install IBBS' hosted PBX solutions. By
using IBBS, a combination of voice technologies may be deployed simultaneously to multiple locations
while being configured to a group. This enables advanced features including interoffice/intercompany
extension dialing and the ability to have one automated attendant. The configuration gives suppliers and
employees access to all locations from a single access number while providing customers local number
access in the specific communities where the company does business.

For large corporate accounts, Contingent will deploy IBBS' PRI (primary rate interface) replacement
services to existing legacy PBX owners as well as SIP trunking to companies that have invested in
advanced IP-PBX technology. Leveraging IBBS capabilities, Contingent can now offer a suite of advanced
features including: sequential ringing, simultaneous ringing, remote office and call management via
toolbars for Outlook and web browsers.

"At Contingent, our customers find that by leveraging our purchasing power, buying relationships and
market partnerships they can save time, gain efficiencies and access resources that are unattainable to a
single buyer," added Stuhlreyer. "Similar to our own model, IBBS' scale, network investments and back
office processes will allow us to leverage best-in-class solutions without having to make the substantial
upfront and ongoing capital investments."

"We view this as a strategic opportunity as it represents an important channel to deliver our
differentiated commercial services solutions," said Dave Keil, chief executive officer at IBBS. "I am
confident that the full breadth of IBBS' offerings will position Contingent for success in providing high
quality voice services to its large installed base and rapidly growing customer base."