PowerNet Global and SpinVox Team-up to Provide VoIP to Vote

2/5/2008

CINCINNATI--(Business Wire)--
PowerNet Global Communications, an integrated communications provider, announced today that is has partnered with SpinVox, the global leader in Voice-to-Screen messaging, to allow voice messages to
be converted to text during today's multi-state primary, dubbed Super Duper Tuesday.

   "Our VoIP network combined with our managed services experience essentially provides a bridge between the public switched telephone network and SpinVox's Voice-to-Text service. The 800 number provides a free way for customers to speak their political viewpoints and have them read on WNYC radio," stated Mike Shaw, Principal Strategist at PowerNet Global.

   The special coverage will be hosted by WNYC Radio, the largest American public radio station, based in New York, to enable greater listener interactivity during the station's ongoing coverage of the multi-state primary.

   WNYC Radio will use SpinVox to communicate directly with voters in the Super Duper Tuesday states. Voters will be encouraged to contribute thoughts, comments and observations by speaking messages to
a special phone number set up for them by PowerNet Global. Those messages will be converted into text by SpinVox and will dynamically become a part of the coverage in real time as presenters John Hockenberry and Adaora Udoji report on voter sentiments and read select text on-air.

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