VoX Communications Corp., eLEC Communications Corp.'s wholesale and retail provider of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services nationwide, announced a wholesale agreement with Lightyear Network Solutions, one of America's fastest growing providers of voice, data and Internet services. VoX will provide local number and VoIP origination services, enabling Lightyear to expand its residential and small business VoIP phone services offering into Puerto Rico.

Lightyear will resell the VoX services through its Lightyear Alliance division, which consists of independent sales representatives who market the Lightyear XSTREAM residential and business products, including VoIP broadband phone service, DSL and long distance.

"VoX's experience working with resellers is apparent in the flexibility of their product, their understanding of service provider needs and their willingness to quickly adapt to those needs," said J Sherman Henderson III, CEO of Lightyear. "The team has gone above and beyond to partner with us in making this relationship successful and we look forward to expanding the partnership to work with them in additional areas."

Lightyear will become one of the only companies capable of delivering residential and small business VoIP phone services with local numbers in both Puerto Rico and the US.

"We are pleased to work with Lightyear to bring the residents of Puerto Rico a high quality VoIP phone offering that can significantly reduce the cost of local and long distance calling," said Ron Harden, EVP of sales and marketing for VoX. "It's equally exciting to offer US customers the ability to obtain a secondary virtual telephone number that enables family and friends living in Puerto Rico to call them without incurring expensive long distance charges. It's a unique digital voice feature with great benefits for US residents with loved ones in Puerto Rico."

Lightyear will begin selling service in Puerto Rico before the end of the month. Additional information can be found at www.lightyear.net.