Union Telecard Alliance (www.uniontelecard.com) is one of the prepaid industry’s largest distributors of prepaid calling cards with sales of over $400 million per year.

Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ – www.verizon.com), formed by the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE, is one of the world's leading providers of high-growth communications services. Verizon companies are the largest providers of wireline and wireless communications in the United States, with nearly 134 million access line equivalents and over 29 million wireless customers.

Visa (www.visa.com) cards are the world's most widely used form of "plastic" payment. As of December 2000, more than $1.8 trillion in products and services were purchased using Visa cards, and Visa's worldwide market share, at 60 percent, was greater than that of all other major payment cards combined. There are more than 1 billion Visa, Visa Electron, Interlink, PLUS, and Visa Cash cards in the market today. Visa-branded cards are accepted at more than 25 million locations in 137 countries, making Visa the closest thing there is to a universal currency.