AdvancedTele.com Purchases Infinity Broadcasting's Spark Network Services

AdvancedTele.com Acquires Infinity Broadcasting's Radio Voice Personals Company.

New York, NY (PRWEB) April 4, 2005 -- AdvancedTele.com has purchased Spark Network Services, a provider of interactive, non-traditional revenue sources to media affiliates, in an all-cash transaction. Spark is a division of Infinity Broadcasting. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

AdvancedTele.com has been active in the newspaper voice personals business for over a decade. By purchasing Spark Network Services, it obtains over 400 voice personals accounts in the radio industry. It will operate Spark's call center in suburban Chicago and its automated telemarketing IVR system. Moreover, by acquiring Spark Network Services, AdvancedTele.com has also obtained one of only three direct service bureau accounts in the nation for MCI 900 number services.

"We have known the talented people at Spark for several years and we are excited about the acquisition," said Bret Dunlap, president of AdvancedTele.com. "Both companies will benefit from it."

"This is a very strategic acquisition for us in that it expands our voice personals base of accounts, gives us a direct MCI 900 deal, and allows us to sell additional products to its broadcasting customers," said Bob Bentz, co-owner and director of marketing and sales for AdvancedTele.com.

Spark Network Services (www.sparkns.com) is based in Evanston, Illinois. Its most popular product is the MatchLink system, the leading interactive computer dating service used by radio and television stations in the United States and Canada. Its dating services have served over two million members since its inception in 1994.

Infinity Broadcasting is one of the largest major-market radio operators in the United States, with stations covering the news, modern rock, oldies, country, FM talk, classic rock and urban formats, among others. A division of Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B), Infinity operates 183 stations, the majority of which are in the nation's top 50 markets.

AdvancedTele.com (www.advancedtele.com) is a diversified Wayne, Pennsylvania-based company that has been in operation since 1989. Its core competencies include automated call processing, e-commerce applications, and mobile data services. It operates over 100 newspaper voice personals accounts and promotes and operates e-commerce products including internet dating and cellular ringtones (www.monstertones.com). AdvancedTele.com operates call centers in Philadelphia, Vancouver, London, Dublin, and Prague.

Contact: Bob Bentz, AdvancedTele.com 610/254-7191 Karen Mateo, Infinity 212/846-7638

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