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                                                             Afghanistan                       2.64 Alaska                                 0.24 Albania                               0.46 Algeria                               1.47 American Samoa                 0.99 Andorra                               0.49 Angola                                 0.99 Anguilla                             0.75 Antarctica                         0.99 AntiguaBarbuda           0.75 Argentina                           0.43 Armenia                               0.63 Aruba                                   0.49 Ascension Is                     1.66 Australia                           0.12 Austria                               0.20 Azerbaijan                         0.69 Bahamas                               0.39 Bahrain                               1.19 Bangladesh                         1.29 Barbados                             0.69 Belarus                               0.79 Belgium                               0.25 Belize                                 0.46 Benin                                   0.70 Bermuda                               0.75 Bhutan                                 3.07 Bolivia                               0.95 Bosnia Herzegovina         1.38 Botswana                             0.89 Brazil                                 0.38 British VI                         0.75 Brunei                                 0.79 Bulgaria                             0.45 Burkina Faso                     0.89 Burundi                               0.99 Cambodia                             1.59 Cameroon                             1.29 Canada                                 0.16 Cape Verde Is                   2.04 Cayman Is                           0.65 Central African Rep       2.60 Chad                                     1.49 Chile                                   0.69 China                                   0.57 Christmas Is                     0.99 Cocos Is                             0.99 Colombia                             0.59 Comoro Is                           .79 Congo                                   2.31 Congo Dem Rep of             0.85 Cook Is                               3.15 Costa Rica                         0.49 Croatia                               0.79 Cuba                                     0.90 Cyprus                                 0.31 Czech Rep                           0.39 Denmark                               0.29 Diego Garcia                     3.05 Djibouti                             1.55 Dominica                             0.75 Dominican Rep                   0.29 Ecuador                               0.59 Egypt                                   0.85 El Salvador                       0.45 Equatorial Guinea           3.88 Eritrea                               1.74 Estonia                               0.39 Ethiopia                             1.39 Faeroe Is                           0.49 Falkland Is                       3.23 Fiji                                     1.19 Finland                               0.23 France                                 0.23 French Guiana                   0.89 French Polynesia             0.72 Gabon                                   1.19 Gambia                                 0.79 Georgia                               1.09 Germany                               0.25 Ghana                                   0.85 Gibraltar                           0.85 Greece                                 0.41 Greenland                           1.19 Grenada                               0.75 Guadeloupe                         0.55 Guam                                     0.89 Guatemala                           0.45 Guinea                                 0.72 Guinea Bissau                   1.35 Guyana                                 0.99 Haiti                                   1.11 Hawaii                                 0.24 Honduras                             0.75 Hong Kong                           0.19 Hungary                               0.34 Iceland                               0.29 India                                   0.85 Indonesia                           0.57 Inmarsat                             8.99 Iran                                     1.70 Iraq                                     2.02 Ireland                               0.39 Israel                                 0.75 Italy                                   0.17 Ivory Coast                       1.39 Jamaica                               0.75 Japan                                   0.39 Jordan                                 0.95 Kazakhstan                         0.73 Kenya                                   0.96 Kiribati                             2.15 Korea                                   0.69 Korea North                       1.23 Kuwait                                 0.99 Kyrgyzstan                         1.14 Laos                                     1.00 Latvia                                 0.49 Lebanon                               0.98 Lesotho                               1.33 Liberia                               0.75 Libya                                   1.63 Liechtenstein                   0.39 Lithuania                           0.59 Luxembourg                         0.30 Macau                                   0.99 Macedonia                           1.39 Madagascar                         4.04 Malawi                                 0.98 Malaysia                             0.49 Maldives                             2.75 Mali                                     1.07 Malta                                   0.69 Mariana Is                         1.64 Marshall Is                       0.99 Martinique                         0.79 Mauritania                         0.99 Mauritius                           0.99 Mayotte Is                         2.00 Mexico 1                             0.29 Mexico 2                             0.29 Mexico 3                             0.47 Mexico 4                             0.36 Mexico 5                             0.36 Mexico 6                             0.36 Mexico 7                             0.36 Mexico 8                             0.36 Micronesia                         1.86 Moldova                               1.09 Monaco                                 0.24 Mongolia                             2.04 Montserrat                         0.75 Morocco                               0.89 Mozambique                         0.92 Myanmar                               1.47 Namibia                               0.89 Nauru                                   2.39 Nepal                                   1.49 Netherlands                       0.29 Netherlands Antilles     0.43 Nevis                                   0.75 New Caledonia                   1.86 New Zealand                       0.26 Nicaragua                           0.89 Niger                                   1.19 Nigeria                               0.97 Niue Is                               4.33 Norfolk Is                         0.99 Norway                                 0.16 Oman                                     1.39 Pakistan                             1.29 Palau                                   3.10 Panama                                 0.85 Papua New Guinea             0.95 Paraguay                             0.0.65 Peru                                     0.89 Philippines                       0.90 Poland                                 0.45 Portugal                             0.36 Puerto Rico                       0.24 Qatar                                   1.20 Reunion Is                         0.99 Romania                               0.59 Russia                                 0.65 Rwanda                                 1.49 San Marino                         0.98 Sao TomePrincipe       2.67 Saudi Arabia                     0.92 Senegal                               1.55 Seychelles                         2.85 Sierra Leone                     1.29 Singapore                           0.32 Slovakia                             0.49 Slovenia                             0.79 Solomon Is                         2.41 Somalia                               3.88 South Africa                     0.46 Spain                                   0.29 Sri Lanka                           0.99 St. Helena                         3.40 St. Kitts                           0.52 St. Lucia                           0.75 St. PierreMiq             0.96 St. Vincent                       0.75 Sudan                                   0.75 Suriname                             1.09 Swaziland                           1.49 Sweden                                 0.15 Switzerland                       0.39 Syria                                   1.49 Taiwan                                 0.55 Tajikistan                         1.09 Tanzania                             1.00 Thailand                             0.93 Togo                                     1.19 TrinidadTobago           0.52 Tunisia                               0.89 Turkey                                 0.75 Turkmenistan                     1.09 TurksCaicos Is           0.75 Tuvalu                                 4.42 UAE                                       0.89 UK                                         0.15 USA                                       0.15 USVI                                     0.24 Uganda                                 1.19 Ukraine                               0.55 Uruguay                               0.85 Uzbekistan                         1.09 Vanuatu                               0.99 Vatican City                     0.98 Venezuela                           0.52 Vietnam                               1.86 WallisFutuna               0.99 Western Samoa                   1.09 Yemen                                   1.30 Yugoslavia                         0.69 Zambia                                 0.79 Zimbabwe                             0.80
                                                                   All rates are in US Dollars

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GACB Summary Points

GACB by-passes PTT rates and lets customers make calls anywhere in the world at U.S. rates. PTT(Post, Telephone & Telegraph--The organization, usually a monopoly and typically government- owned, that provides telephone service in a country.)

Minimum usage is $15/mo for each line provisioned, but check the Minimum Policy below.

Even with the minimum, the savings can be as great as 20% to 55%. You can select one month in which he or she wants to have the minimum waived. If a month is not selected, August is the default month.

Fraud Control -- Our system alerts us when a customer uses more than $300 per line.

5-digit account codes are available at no extra charge.

Billing is 30/06. In most countries rates are flat rated 24 hours a day. Complete call detail with every invoice. Many PTTs do not have this feature.

Countries approved for Bank Debit payment method: Australia Belgium Denmark France Germany Italy Japan Netherlands New Zealand Spain Switzerland  U. K. U. S.

Payment is due within 20 days. Bills go out at the end of each month.

No charge for unanswered or busy signal calls.

Service is totally blocked in some counties and partially blocked in others (refer to the Blocked Countries list).

Customer can receive his or her DID number at the time it is entered in the IDB and can use it within a couple of hours. DID(Direct Inward Dial--lines that can only receive incoming, non 800 calls.)

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Instructions for Using GACB

1. You need a touch-tone phone to use GACB service.
2. Dial your U.S. DID number. You must dial the normal international prefix (which varies from country to country) before dialing the DID.
3. After one ring, hang up.
4. A computer in the U.S. recognizes the number and calls you back immediately.
5. When you pick up the phone, you hear a GA dial tone.
6. For calls to the U.S., Canada, and the Caribbean, dial 1+area code+number. For calls to other countries, dial country code+number (do not dial 011).
7. If you use the account code feature, you will be prompted to enter the Account Code.
8. To make additional calls without hanging up, press # (pound). If you misdials, press * (star) to get new dial tone. If you get a busy signal or there is no answer, press # for new dial tone.

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Minimum Policy

GACB/ECB/TCB Minimum Policy Revised 1/98

GACB/ECB/TCB minimums are calculated based on the country the customer lives in (Location country/BTN country), not the country the WTN is in. For example, for a customer living in France with a GACB line in Italy and a GACB line in Spain, the minimums for all of these lines would be calculated by the rules for France. This customer would be charged a $15/month minimum for each line, including FaxSaver lines. New customers do not receive a minimum charge for the first two invoice cycles. After that your minimum phone bill will be $15 dollars a month if minimums apply.

Here is a description of how the minimums are organized:

Category 1 - No Minimums

No minimum at all for the countries listed below due to PTT blocking issues and other as yet unresolved service problems:

Andorra (as of Oct. '98 invoices) Argentina (as of Oct'98 invoices) Denmark Dominican Republic France French Polynesia Honduras Indonesia Japan Kenya

Latvia Liberia Lithuania Malasia Mexico Monoco (as of Sept. '98 invoices) Netherlands New Caledonia Philippines Russia

Spain Sweden Switzerland Tanzania Trinidad Uganda UK Venezuela Zambia

Category 2 - All Lines Charged a $15/Month Minimum

Charged a $15/month minimum for each line. Includes "VIP Friendly Countries" listed below:

Australia Austria Finland Hong Kong

New Zealand Norway Ireland Portugal South Africa

Category 3 - First Line No Minimum , then $15 minimum for each Additional Line

This group includes all of the countries not listed in Categories 1 and 2 -- most countries. The first line has no minimum and each additional line has a $15/month minimum. month.

Category 4

This is a special exceptions category only for customers meeting these conditions: customer is in one of the countries listed below, and added GACB/FaxSaver service or GACB/FaxSaver lines between 8/7/96 -10/4/96. The first line has no minimum and each additional line has a $15/month minimum.

Australia Austria Belgium Canada Denmark Finland France Germany Hong Kong

Ireland Norway Netherlands New Zealand South Africa Sweden Switzerland UK

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