ACN, One of World's Fastest Growing Telecommunications Companies Launches Operations in France.

Business Editors

FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 5, 2004

ACN:

-- ACN's fixed telephone service becomes available to French

consumers today

-- With the addition of France, ACN's international presence

is now 13 countries

the way

Customers in France now have an impressive alternative for local, national and international calling. ACN, one of the fastest growing, privately held companies in the world and a leader in voice, data, mobile and energy customer acquisition, has expanded its European phone service market into France.

"We are thrilled to launch our operations in France. We are bringing to the market a service of excellent quality at highly competitive prices supported by state-of-the-art customer care," says Jeff Swenson, Chief Operating Officer of ACN's European operations.

ACN offers two subscription plans. ACN Gratuitel, designed for residential users, offers local and national calling to any other ACN customer in France at no per minute charge. In addition, ACN Gratuitel customers will enjoy extremely competitive rates for local and national calls to other service providers, low fixed-to-mobile rates and the convenience of fixed rates when making calls to international destinations. ACN Premier is targeted towards residential and small business customers who are frequent national and international callers. For a small monthly subscription charge, customers will benefit from ACN's extremely competitive rates for local, national, international and fixed to mobile calls.

To date, ACN has nearly a million customers in Europe to whom they provide mobile phone, fixed telephone and energy services. In addition to availability in 11 European countries, ACN services are also available throughout North America. The rapid deployment of services across the U.S. has exceeded even ACN's own expectations and the expansion of ACN's fixed line service into the French market will surely be a catalyst in furthering the company's aggressive growth strategy in Europe.

"France is the first country on ACN's European expansion map for this year," says Jeff Swenson. "Later in the year we will be expanding our European presence to include Belgium, Switzerland, Spain and Portugal."

For more information about ACN visit www.acninc.com, or view our company profile: http://www2.acninc.com/news/About_ACN.pdf