EQO Communications Launches EQO Mobile, Changing Global Mobile Calling Landscape

    New service saves people up to 95% on international mobile calls and
    provides free international mobile calls, text messages and IM chat with
    other online EQO users.

    VANCOUVER, British Columbia and LONDON, May 23 /CNW/ -- EQO
Communications, a pioneer in mobile internet phone services, today announced
the launch of EQO Mobile, a groundbreaking new service that lets users make
international long distance calls and exchange IM and text messages on their
mobile phones at local calling and messaging rates.  People using EQO save up
to 95% on all international calls and enjoy free calling and "texting" with
other EQO users.
    EQO's new service is remarkably simple to use, sparing people from
calling cards, complicated dialing or callback scenarios.  EQO Mobile is
powered by a small, sophisticated software application that makes calling as
easy as using as a standard phone address book.  The application is free to
download and installs itself automatically.  EQO Mobile allows users to
leverage their existing contact lists to build a network of EQO contacts and
to easily invite these contacts to also use EQO.
    "It has become much more common for consumers to use their mobile phones
for talking, even when there is a landline alternative. Unfortunately, mobile
users who have friends and family spread out across the globe have few choices
from their wireless carriers for affordable international long distance
calling," said Jill Aldort, senior analyst for Yankee Group. "Mobile VoIP
solutions such as EQO's offer international long distance calling for
significant savings over the rates that wireless carriers offer. These
services will appeal to those consumers who need to make frequent
international long distance phone calls."
    According to Insight Research, the worldwide international calling market
reached $300 billion in 2006, with International VoIP revenues forecasted to
reach $87 billion this year.
    "We developed the new EQO Mobile to satisfy a long unfulfilled need for
consumers and business professionals -- to make international mobile calling
and messaging more affordable and convenient," said EQO Chief Executive
Officer Bill Tam.  "We've made it extremely easy for consumers to get EQO
Mobile, create a calling and messaging network of friends, and make calls
intuitively without having to worry about the costs."

    EQO Mobile's compelling features include:

     -- Savings of up to 95% on international calls
     -- Free calls and text messages with other online EQO users
     -- Text messages to regular mobiles at savings of up to 70%;
     -- Free IM chat using MSN, Yahoo, AIM, GoogleTalk, ICQ and Jabber
     -- Easy to use

         - Uses current phone and plan
         - No new numbers to remember
         - No computer needed
         - No complicated callback scenarios

    Currently EQO supports hundreds of mainstream mobile handsets (for a
complete list, visit http://www.eqo.com/supported_phones.php) and will
initially be available in the following 20 countries:  Austria, Belgium,
Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Israel, Latvia,
Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United
Kingdom, and the United States.  Consumers in these countries can download the
software and create a network of EQO Contacts in any EQO-supported country, as
well as call virtually anywhere else in the world at rates up to 95% less than
traditional calling rates.

    For more information and to download EQO Mobile for free, visit
http://www.eqo.com.

    About EQO Communications

    EQO Communications is a Vancouver, Canada-based company focused on
changing the landscape and economics of mobile communications for consumers
around the world.  Applying the business rules of the Internet to mobile
services, EQO has developed a revolutionary mobile consumer voice and
messaging service that reduces international calling costs and keeps people
connected to their friends and contacts from a single phone application. Using
a proprietary mobile soft-switch platform and a presence-enabled Voice-over-IP
(VoIP) signaling network, EQO is capable of delivering presence-enabled voice
calling and instant messaging services to millions of mobile handsets
available worldwide. For additional information please visit
http://www.eqo.com/.

For further information: North America, Doug Wyllie of Antenna Group 
Public Relations, +1-415-977-1930, or doug@antennagroup.com, or EMEA, Amanda 
Metti of Axicom UK +44 (0) 20 8392 4072, amanda.metti@axicom.com Web Site:
http://www.eqo.com/