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Telecom Communications, Inc. Announces Stockhouse.Com Editorial Covers TCOM: 'China, Can You Hear Me Now?' By Danny Deadlock
Danny Deadlock's Research Leads Him to the Far East and a Telecom Company with

the potential of a Billion Served

HONG KONG, Nov. 3 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Telecom Communications, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: TCOM) announced today the release of an independent investor research report published by MicroCap.com on Stockhouse. The report comments upon the explosive growth within the Internet industry in China and specifically highlights the potential for Telecom Communications, Inc. within this industry.

Mr. Danny Deadlock, Publisher and Analyst for MicroCap.com, released the report to present the results of his most recent independent investor research on the Internet industry in China and, specifically, Telecom Communications, Inc.

"I believe Mr. Deadlock's research report offers a complete perspective on the current state of the Internet industry and market. This is the most concise explanation of our market I've seen. He is one of the few independent investor analysts covering the telecom and relating industry," said Shanhe Yang CEO. "I am pleased to see that Mr. Deadlock has commented favorably regarding our investor's opportunity for stock appreciation. In addition we're complimented by his high regard for the work we continue to do in building a world-class organization."

China, Can You Hear Me Now?

Monday, Nov 1, 2004 By Danny Deadlock. The report is available at http://www.stockhouse.com/shfn/editorial.asp?edtid=17408

Telecom Communications (TCOM $0.43)

52 week High $2.36 Low $0.09 Market Cap: $30 million

Too Much Money, Not Enough Players

Thanks to Google and Yahoo, major U.S. Internet players are back in vogue and the few public Chinese internet (or mobile phone services) companies you can find, are commanding huge value as the money rolls in by the truckload. All listed on Nasdaq, SINA ($33.71), SNDA ($31.20), and NTES ($46.06) all boast revenue in the range of $200 million, cash in the range of $100 to $200 million, and market caps in the range of $1.5 billion!

Silicon Valley venture capitalists and several large public companies are dying to tap into the Chinese tech market but they're finding this a tough nut to crack. Earlier this year, Google made a small investment in Baidu (China's largest and most popular search engine), but even after raising only $11 million from venture capitalists, it stated it was profitable and did not need to raise more money at the moment -- words rarely heard on Wall Street. Numerous investment bankers have approached Baidu about a Nasdaq IPO but the company is in no rush after seeing their recent sales quadruple.

Cliff Higgerson, partner at Palo Alto's ComVentures, recently returned from China and is evangelizing his other partners to invest in telecom there. "We feel China is the most important single event in a generation," he says. For years, if not decades, entrepreneurs have dreamed of making it in China, salivating at the prospect of more than a billion people and an economy growing at 9 percent a year."

"China draws more investment capital in a year than India does in a decade," says Ram Shriram, an angel investor and early backer of search engine Google. He has invested mainly in India, but China is grabbing his attention. "It makes the industrial revolution look lame in contrast," he says.

An Insatiable Appetite for Technology

You can understand the enthusiasm. According to the Ministry of Information, China's internet users are estimated to grow to 111 million this year, from 81 million in 2003. With 1.3 billion people, that is only 8.5% of the population. The United States has 300 million people, approximately 60% of which are on the internet. If China internet usage grows to 20%, there will be as many people on the Internet in China as the entire population of the United States.

While the internet potential is staggering even for the few companies that dominate that space in China, the number of mobile phone users is even more impressive. Current statistics show approximately 260 million mobile phones in use and billions of text messages (SMS -- short message service and MMS -- multimedia messaging) sent every month. As availability increases, these numbers will hit staggering proportions.

The Convergence - Mobile Phones and the Internet

Within the last two years, the mobile internet market has grown from 200 million to more than half of the 1.3 billion mobile phones used worldwide -- a revolution some are comparing to the switch from the electric telegraph to the telephone in the last quarter of the 19th century.

According to industry experts, the number of internet-connected mobile phones will soon exceed by a large margin, the number of internet-connected PCs. Analysts estimate the worldwide number of active PCs to be between 500 million and 750 million, well short of that 1.3 billion cell phone figure -- and the gap is going to grow, particularly in places like China, where generations may skip the PC altogether and move directly to smaller mobile units of one type or another.

China based Sina Corp ($1.7 billion market cap) recently announced that its net profit rose 24% in the third quarter because of higher revenue from its new value-added mobile services (revenue in total jumped 65% to $52 million). The Chinese have an estimated 250 million mobile phones in use and unlike North Americans, send Billions of text/instant messages (SMS and MMS) every month. Their dependence upon the mobile phone is equivalent to our dependence upon the computer and it is estimated 30 million new users will arrive every year.

In July 2004, SINA acquired (for approximately $36 million U.S.) a private company with an instant messaging technology platform that was only launched in 2002. Within 2 years that company obtained 80 million registered user accounts. As these China internet companies continue to be acquired by North American corporations (in 2003 it was estimated that Yahoo paid $120 million for 3721 Inter China Network Software), it will drive up the value of those that remain.

Snapshot View of TCOM

The company trades on the OTCBB (OTCBB: TCOM) in the U.S. but only to accommodate the raising of capital and provide liquidity for existing shareholders (see Taikang below). Otherwise this is a pure play on a Chinese based technology company. All management is in China and all clients (at this time) are in China. TCOM specializes in technology for mobile phone applications with an emphasis on short messaging (both text SMS and multimedia MMS). They cover all aspects of the technology and even provide corporations they partner with a call center to support their clients. Their business partners already include some of the largest internet and mobile phone companies in China -- Shanghai Linktone, 5Wan, Tencent, and 3721 (div. of Yahoo). In only a few months of establishing these relationships, TCOM acquired 6 million subscribers for its services.

This is only one aspect of their technologies but the SMS/MMS solution for corporations offers advanced internet, wireless capabilities without the need to install expensive hardware at the customer location. Each user gets a unique code number and an associated web page to manage incoming and outgoing short messages, multimedia messages, phone calls, voice mails and emails with one common interface. The service also allows simple, rapid administration of a company's telecom services, including adding new customers and moving telephone number locations online (VoIP) without the cost of a telecom support department.

End users can consolidate their multiple phone numbers (home, office, mobile) with a single personal telephone number so callers reach them wherever they are. A personal virtual SMS/MMS number handles all incoming faxes. The unified visual mailbox conveniently manages voicemail and faxes just like e- mail. Robust call logs and integration with Microsoft Windows Media Player and Instant Message allow users to make and auto reply questions with just a mouse click.

The Importance of SEO4Mobile (Search Engine Optimization for mobile

phones)

SEO4Mobile appears to be the first service of it's kind offered anywhere for mobile phones. It is very important as most of you may remember that the major search engines in North America (Yahoo and Google for example) could not develop a money making business model until pay per click advertising came along (pioneered by Overture who were bought out by Yahoo for $1.6 billion). Now the major search engines are reporting enormous profits on explosive revenue.

SEO4Mobile offers wireless mobile phone providers the ability to use a short message service (SMS) search feature. Users who enter a relevant keyword or keyword phrase, along with a geographic identifier, can send searches in via an SMS and receive a multimedia response that has been processed through a search engine on the internet. By specifically laying out a separate search SMS for the geographic portion, SEO4Mobile helps structure the search in a simple and efficient way for the searcher.

SEO4Mobile will then parse out its advertiser keyword ads that have a local identifier as it sends them to its distribution partners, thereby returning very targeted results for mobile searches. This augments TCOM's recently announced pay-per-SMS service, as pay-per-search advertisers choose the region in which they wish their advertisements to be displayed.

Pay per click advertising for the search engines has become a multi- billion dollar business and when you consider the importance, and enormous size, of the mobile phone market in China, this technology has the potential to hold tremendous value. Sales in Yahoo's advertising business more than tripled to $765 million, due its acquisition last year of Overture. While the market in China still has a long ways to reach that point, iResearch estimated the country's search market will be worth an estimated $50 million this year and it is expected to grow to $200 million by 2006.

On October 7th it was announced that TCOM's subsidiary Alpha Century Holdings Limited, was applying for multi-country patents on the SEO4Mobile technology. If it is as unique as it appears, and patents can be locked up, the potential market on a global basis is enormous.

The October 22nd addition of AdMaxB2Search

In another important technology launch, the company released an advertiser maximum bid listing system for mobile phone service providers (very similar to what overture developed for it pay per click advertisers on the search engines in North America). AdMaxB2Search was developed specifically for small to mid- sized businesses who want to add valuable advertising content to SEO4Mobile quickly and simply, without impacting their design or operation. Through a step-by-step, wizard-driven set up, TCOM's advertisers and their partners can easily manage their accounts online. Revenue will be shared between TCOM and the advertisers on a pay per click basis. Advertisers who use the service will be given access to SEO4Mobile's 10 million users and 300 service providers.

Basically this is an Overture scenario all over again but for the mobile phone market. With 1.3 billion worldwide, the potential is incredible -- IF they can lock up patents globally. Either way, it has tremendous growth potential in China alone where the number of mobile phone users should reach 300 million by next year. TCOM will generate monthly fixed fees from advertise distributors and earn revenues on a per-search basis."

Rapid Growth Already and the Importance of Baidu

As mentioned above, Baidu is the leading search engine in China and apparently preferred more than 2:1 over Google. Google owns a minority position in Baidu but that stake is being carefully controlled. On October 26th, TCOM's other subsidiary IC Star MMS entered into a partnership agreement with Baidu. Under this partnership, the two companies will contribute equally to develop content and technology that integrates Baidu with SMS/MMS for the mobile phone market. Content such as entertainment and gaming and other new services will then be marketed through the Baidu portal which reaches 90% of the 100 million Chinese Internet users.

Recent media states that Baidu's sales are soaring in part from sponsored links similar to those offered by Google and Yahoo! Revenue apparently doubled in 2004 and is expected to double again in 2005. It wouldn't be surprising to see Baidu and TCOM working closer together on the SEO4Mobile technology as it would rapidly expand the Baidu market to the several hundred million mobile phone users in the country.

Other significant contracts in 2004 (most over the past couple months):

1) Providing customer care services for more than 3,000,000 clients of Taikang Life Insurance. Creates a fixed revenue of $120,000 monthly over 36 months

2) 2-year contract from Results Group Int'l Limited who serve the main betting entertainment clubs in Asia. Providing Results Group racing information, betting ticket care services for approximately 2 million mobile phone internet opt-in users. Revenue of $64,100 monthly over 24 months plus $6,410 monthly in support fees.

3) Provide services to the 1 million readers of Media Group's Hong Kong travel guide

4) 2-year contract from Valuerise Group using SEO4Mobile. Fixed revenue of $100,000 per month over a 24-month period, plus a percentage share of the revenue earned by Valuerise Group and its partners.

5) Signed a cooperation agreement with World-East Development Group to bundle SEO4Mobile with certain mobile phone handsets with free of charge service to customers for a limited time. World-East runs a large retail chain of mobile phone handset and accessories in China. They sell 950,000 units annually and have 400 outlets along with members of an alliance.

Even as a Pure Play on China, TCOM has fallen below Everyone's Radar (for

now)

When you're a small penny stock it's extremely difficult to attract attention (or buying) unless the media finds your story, or a news release grabs the attention of a large brokerage firm. Right now, one of the few ways to play the upcoming China tech boom is through the billion dollar companies mentioned above. Very few (legitimate) penny stocks are managed 100% from China, have 100% of their clients in China, and have large control blocks of their stock held by Chinese corporations. This in itself creates risks, but it's also the reason people pay $0.40 and not $40 at this stage. Often a person can buy a stock like this and hope that within a couple years it might be worth a couple dollars (or more). The same type of percentages on a $40 stock mean watching a share price go from $40 to $200 (very rare -- but not with penny stocks).

With TCOM I've seen it bounce all over the map and the only way to properly speculate on a stock of this nature is to plan for the worst and hope for the best. A person needs patience of 12 to 18 months and the ability to risk losing half your money (or more). All kinds of scenarios beyond your control could have a negative impact on this stock (foreign policy, poor management, market corrections, etc.) and you should never speculate without assuming that problems can, and often will, occur. In assuming this risk, you do so with the "hope" that the greater risk means greater rewards. With the underlying fundamentals of both the company and China itself, there are tremendous growth opportunities here. IF the company is able to fully capitalize on them, the share price will reflect it.

On October 20th, the company did something very smart and announced that an Asian based company would handle Investor Relations for TCOM and promote the story across China and other parts of Asia. They would hold conferences on how Chinese can buy a stock like TCOM, and provide guidebooks and a hotline. This is the first time I have seen this done and as many of you know, the Asian people can be huge risk takers (you only need to visit the tables in Vegas to recognize this). As the Chinese economy continues to boom, more and more locals will be looking for places to invest their money and strong local stories have the potential to attract significant capital.

There are times when this stock provides tremendous liquidity, and other times when it won't trade at all. You have to time purchases very carefully and always remember that some OTC market makers can be ruthless and manipulative. Never buy or sell these stocks using market orders and be prepared for a possible roller coaster. This is a story that appears to have tremendous potential but its share structure could make it subject to extreme volatility at times.

Disclosure: Danny Deadlock owns 15,000 shares of TCOM

About Telecom Communications, Inc.

Telecom Communications, Inc. is a Total Solutions Provider that offers Integrated Communications Network Solutions and Internet Content Service in universal voice, video, data web and mobile communications for interactive media applications, technology and content leaders in interactive multimedia communications. It develops, markets and sells a universal media software solution for enterprise-wide deployment of integrated voice, video, data web and mobile communications and media applications.

Telecom Communications, Inc. does business in Asia via its subsidiaries. Alpha Century Holdings Limited, Huiri Electric (PY) Limited, Arran Services Limited and IC Star MMS, Limited (http://www.icstarmms.com/ ).

About MicroCap.com

Danny Deadlock is the Publisher of MicroCap.com (http://www.microcap.com/) who conducts research and publishes reports on various companies and industries. His research report is published on Stockhouse each week. In addition to the editorial published each week on Stockhouse, Danny Deadlock offers MicroCap Premium which is published throughout the week by email and includes more in-depth research on stocks in their portfolio, new picks throughout the month, and broader market commentary & forecasts.

This announcement contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including those relating to the Company's ability to grow its business. Actual results may differ materially from the results predicted and reported results should not be considered as an indication of future performance. The potential risks and uncertainties include, among others, the company's limited operating history, the limited financial resources, domestic limited management infrastructure or global economic conditions -- especially those relating to China, activities of competitors and the presence of new or additional competition, and changes in Federal or State laws, restrictions and regulations on doing business in a foreign country, in particular China, uncertainty that this or any other acquisition can be completed and conditions of equity markets. More information about the potential factors that could affect the company's business and financial results are included in the Company's filings, available via the United States Securities & Exchange Commission.

For more information, please contact:

Mr. Benny Huang of Telecom Communications, Inc.

Tel: +852-2782-0983

Email: pr@icchina.net

Telecom Communications, Inc.

CONTACT: Mr. Benny Huang of Telecom Communications, Inc.,+852-2782-0983, pr@icchina.net

Web site: http://www.stockhouse.com/shfn/editorial.asp?edtid=17408

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Telecom Communications Announces Stockhouse.com
Monday April 25, 3:27 pm ET
- Editorial Covers TCOM: 'Microcap Monday: TCOM in China' By Danny Deadlock

HONG KONG, April 25 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Telecom Communications, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: TCOM - News) the Total Solutions Provider, announced today the release of an independent investor research report published by MicroCap.com on Stockhouse.com.

Following 3 Month Triple Digit Growth, Independent Research Firm Recommends TCOM over SINA, SNDA, and NTES.

A leading publisher of Independent research on microcap stocks, has issued the following research report on TCOM. MicroCap.com has been publishing online since 1995 and their weekly editorial is featured every Monday & Tuesday on the home page of Stockhouse.com, one of the largest investing websites in North America. This new research report comments on the strong growth potential of TCOM with some excellent insight into China.

This report follows our April 21st news release in which we announced quarterly operating statistics for the period ending March 31/05, and reported that the number of new clients using our SEO4Mobile service had grown 526% since Dec 31/04 and new clients for our CRM Virtual Call Center station had also grown by 109% in the same period. Mr. Danny Deadlock, Publisher and Analyst for MicroCap.com, released the report to present the results of his most recent independent investor research on the Internet industry in China and, specifically, Telecom Communications, Inc.

"I believe Mr. Deadlock's research report offers a complete perspective on the current state of the Internet industry and market. This is the most concise explanation of our market I've seen. He is one of the few independent investor analysts covering the telecom and relating industry," said Tim Chen, CEO. "I am pleased to see that Mr. Deadlock has commented favorably regarding our investor's opportunity for stock appreciation. In addition we're complimented by his high regard for the work we continue to do in building a world-class organization."

Features: Microcap Monday: TCOM in China

Monday, April 25, 2005

By Danny Deadlock The report is available at
http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/editorial.asp?edtID=17644

Telecom Communications (TCOM/OTC Bulletin Board $0.35)

We've had a few small updates on TCOM (OTC Bulletin Board: TCOM - News) since our initial feature report November 3, 2004 (low $0.40's) but nothing significant since then. By early December the stock had doubled but then, like so many others, it started a correction which has lasted for over 4 months. At the time, we were speculating on the enormous growth potential of China and the cutting edge technology developed by TCOM for the mobile phone market. Regardless of what the share price has done, the company has continued to demonstrate tremendous progress and Thursday released numbers that solidified our reason for following them.

In Q4 2004, the company targeted revenue for 2005 in the range of $10 million U.S. -- for the period ending March 31st they have hit $1.9 million with a 69% increase in net income over Q4/04 to $612k. Not only is it great to see a positive bottom line but at current growth rates, $10 million should be surpassed by the end of 2005. Of particular importance is the numbers they have generated over Q4 in only 3 months.

1. They added 621 small and medium sized businesses to their SEO4Mobile service. SEO4 is a cutting edge technology designed to integrate the internet with mobile phones using search engine technology and a pay per click business model. Once the major search engines like Google and Yahoo incorporated pay per click advertising on the internet, their bottom lines increased dramatically. TCOM, from what we have seen, is the first company to have developed something similar for mobile phone users and advertisers. The success of this technology is proven by the fact it has grown 526% in only 3 months (total now is 739 business users vs. 118 at Dec 31/04). Not only is the growth rate dramatic, but they are doing it in a country with several hundred million mobile phones.

2. Another aspect of their business entails "Virtual Call Center Stations". In North America text messaging on mobile phones is popular but nothing like in China where billions of messages are sent every month. SMS is the basic form (short messaging) but the major growth is in MMS (multimedia messaging). TCOM provides services never heard of in North America for mobile users. Their highly customized, scalable, flexible interactive services, offers clients high value, low cost sales and service solutions using the highly scalable interactive MMS response (IMR), interactive voice response (IVR) and speech recognition solutions. They combine this with an extensive network of China contact centers for live operator support and provide their clients with opt-in subscriptions of Short Message Services (SMS) and Multimedia Message Services (MMS).

So just how big is the market for this? Consider their April 4th news release where they landed a contract to provide services to the CCCA (China Car Club Alliance). The CCCA has 400,000 members! For North Americans, these numbers are staggering. Picture one of the largest lobby groups in the United States -- the National Rifle Association. They have been around since 1871 and have 3 million members. This is a "car club" with 400,000 members - the purchasing power of which is amazing.

The point is ... the growth potential of high quality companies in China is tremendous. Since the end of 2004, TCOM's Virtual Call Center Stations have increased by 109% to 217. In late March, they also announced a new product line (IBS v4.1 Enterprise Suite) which will target small and medium sized enterprises in China (SME's) -- a business with anywhere from a few employees to several hundred employees. In China, the number of SME's is amazing -- somewhere between 1 and 2 million. They have a solid alliance with China's leading B2B company (ICChina) who have established a network of approximately a half million SME's throughout several hundred cities in China. ICChina has already committed to take 600 licenses over a 1 year period (valued at a minimum of $3 million) but the potential exists to increase this number significantly over the next 12 to 18 months.

TCOM has several subsidiaries and each one has the potential to be a significant contributor to the bottom line. Right now the company is focused on China but the technology behind SEO4Mobile could be used across Asia if its success continues to grow rapidly and it can be translated and code written in various languages. Right now however, this is not even necessary. They are sitting in the middle of the most lucrative mobile phone market in the world, and cutting edge technology, products, and services, could see exponential growth in coming years. Add to this, over 1 million small business users for their other products and services, and you have a very compelling story.

Pure China Plays Are Not Easy to Find

Unless you're prepared to pay double digits for the major high profile players in China, it's unlikely you'll find another tech company in this same price range. Especially one with so much growth potential and such strong underlying technology and market share. All of these companies below had the backing of major investment banks and as a result, have extensive analyst coverage and enormous amounts of cash in the bank. Telecom Communications is not big enough to attract the major brokerages (yet) so their goal is to continue building significant market share in China and developing products and services that give them a significant competitive advantage. While the ultimate objective is to get listed on Nasdaq, they may become a merger or takeover target before that happens (within 12 to 18 months at current growth rates). As the Chinese economy continues to expand and the demand for mobile phone products and services grows even larger, major corporations may look to companies like TCOM as a way to capture market share rapidly. These pure China plays boast market caps in excess of $1 Billion:

Sina Corporation (SINA/NASD $26.95) -
http://www.stockhouse.com/comp_info.asp?symbol=SINA&table=LIST
Shanda Interactive (SNDA/NASD $31.90) -
http://www.stockhouse.com/comp_info.asp?symbol=SNDA&table=LIST
Netease.com (NTES/NASD $53.00) -
http://www.stockhouse.com/comp_info.asp?symbol=NTES&table=LIST

300 Million and Growing

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (http://www.deloitte.com) is one of the largest accounting and consulting firms in the world, serving over half of the world's largest corporations. They recently prepared an extensive report on business in China and below I have summarized the most important points as they are very relevant to Telecom Communications in their goal to become a world class competitor.

China is quickly shifting from a combination of state-owned and foreign- invested enterprises, to private & public corporations prepared to challenge some of the largest companies in the world. They are not only prepared to serve the needs of their own domestic market, but they are eager to become world class enterprises with a global reach. Much like Japan in the 1950's and south Korea in the 1970's, Chinese companies are set to become world leaders where their strength is not based solely on low cost production. This is a country with tremendous skilled talent that is well disciplined, competitive, and prepared to take calculated risks to achieve their objectives.

In order to succeed on a world class stage, Chinese companies must shift their focus away from simply maximizing output and employment, to improving financial metrics, customer relationships, and properly dealing with competition (both local and foreign). Companies like TCOM are demonstrating this already with world class proprietary technology for mobile phones and customer service that is second to none -- a perfect example was the car club contract in which TCOM was chosen to provide services to over 400,000 members. Right now most North Americans believe Chinese companies want to be more like them. In contrast, we may soon find that corporations will strive to operate more like the Chinese.

The Chinese economy is the fastest growing in the world. However, it is not without its challenges. Key factors within control of the Chinese government include; sensible monetary and fiscal policy, exchange rate management, and international agreements on trade and capital. History has shown that the most successful economies are those that provide the right legal and institutional framework for a market economy. The Deloitte study identified 4 key elements of China's economic success. They include:

1) Rule of Law - Foreign investors must be confident that intellectual capital & private property rights are protected and that any grievances will be addressed and held up in Chinese courts. Not only will this help secure foreign investment, but it will drive the mergers and acquisitions market in China. Without this, foreign capital will move to other regions and possibly miss out on one of the most lucrative booms since the industrial revolution.

2) Rules of Governance - Foreign investors must be guaranteed they have transparent information about Chinese companies. Consistent rules of corporate governance must be properly enforced. This is where investing in Chinese companies that are listed on North American stock exchanges is a major benefit. These companies (like TCOM) are going out of their way to ensure transparency through SEC guidelines and filing requirements. They are hiring auditors recognized by the exchange, and following strict rules of accounting and reporting. These public companies will be amongst the first to benefit from merger and acquisition activity by foreign multi-nationals interested in rapid access to the Chinese economy.

3) Development of Human Capital - For decades China was known for its vast access to cheap, low skilled labor that was the driving force behind factories exporting around the world. This is no longer the case and Chinese corporations have moved well beyond this perception. Locally, Chinese corporations are serving a market in excess of 1 Billion people and are doing so with world class technology. As they consider moves beyond their own borders, they will also increase the skills necessary to operate a world class organization -- management, researchers, other skilled professionals. The government and Chinese corporations will have to (and most already are) invest in education, training, and retention strategies. Chinese corporations like TCOM that are publicly listed, have the benefit of various employee incentive programs that include stock options. For many in China, this benefit alone can be a major factor in deciding what organizations they will work for and this will help companies like TCOM attract and retain highly skilled labour. As we've seen in North America, employee stock option programs have been a driving force behind the success of many of our best technology companies.

4) Business Culture - Business leaders in China must be ethical, devoted to their company's success, and mindful of laws governing their corporation (whether local or through the SEC). Telecom Communications is very committed to all of these requirements. In fact, the company is so committed to success, they recently replaced their CEO after 1 year because they felt someone even better could lead the company going forward. This was even after tremendous growth in the past couple quarters -- but in their pursuit of perfection, it was not enough.

One final issue is the country's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO). This will require China to remove any discriminatory rules that protect local companies from foreign competition. This is not an issue currently affecting TCOM as their products and services are very unique. Even technology behind products like SEO4Mobile are unique to the outside world so right now there is no fear of outside competition. However, China as a whole must still address these issues and when they do, Chinese companies will emerge even stronger -- particularly if it means they will have access to global capital and credit markets. At that stage, foreign banks will fully participate in the Chinese economy -- a requirement under WTO rules.

Telecom Communications has a Very Bright Future

According to the Ministry of Information, China's internet users for 2004 were estimated at 111 million (from 81 million in 2003). With 1.3 Billion people, that is only 8.5% of the population. The United States has 300 million people, approximately 60% of which are on the Internet. If China Internet usage grows to 20%, there will be as many people on the internet in China as the entire population of the United States.

While the internet potential is staggering even for the few companies that dominate that space in China, the number of mobile phone users is even more impressive. Current statistics show approximately 300 million mobile phones in use and billions of text messages sent every month. As availability increases, these numbers will hit staggering proportions.

Convergence between mobile phones and the internet will play a major role in future growth. Within the last two years, the mobile internet market has grown from 200 million to more than half of the 1.3 billion mobile phones used worldwide -- a revolution some are comparing to the switch from the electric telegraph to the telephone in the last quarter of the 19th century.

According to industry experts, the number of internet connected mobile phones will soon exceed by a large margin, the number of internet-connected PCs. Analysts estimate the worldwide number of active PCs to be between 500 million and 750 million, well short of that 1.3 billion cellphone figure -- and the gap is going to grow, particularly in places like China, where generations may skip the PC altogether and move directly to smaller mobile units of one type or another. Companies like TCOM who are amongst the first to provide leading edge technologies and content for this market, could see exponential growth in market share and revenue.

Disclosure: Danny Deadlock owns 15,000 shares of TCOM.

About Telecom Communications, Inc.

Telecom Communications, Inc. is a Total Solutions Provider that offers Integrated Communications Network Solutions and Internet Content Service in universal voice, video, data web and mobile communications for interactive media applications, technology and content leaders in interactive multimedia communications. It develops, markets and sells a universal media software solution for enterprise-wide deployment of integrated voice, video, data web and mobile communications and media applications. Telecom Communications, Inc. does business in Asia via its wholly owned subsidiaries, Alpha Century Holdings Limited (http://www.SEO4Mobile.net ),3G Dynasty Inc. (http://www.SEO4Mobile.com), Huiri Electric (PY) Limited, Arran Services Limited and IC Star MMS, Limited.

About MicroCap.com

Danny Deadlock is the Publisher of MicroCap.com (http://www.microcap.com) who conducts research and publishes reports on various companies and industries. His research report is published on Stockhouse each week. In addition to the editorial published each week on Stockhouse, Danny Deadlock offers MicroCap Premium which is published throughout the week by email and includes more in-depth research on stocks in their portfolio, new picks throughout the month, and broader market commentary & forecasts.

Safe Harbor

The statements made in this release constitute "forward-looking" statements, usually containing the words "believe," "estimate," "project," "expect," or similar expressions. These statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements inherently involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. Factors that would cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, changing economic conditions, interest rates trends, continued acceptance of the Company's products in the marketplace, competitive factors and other risks detailed in the Company's periodic report Filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. By making these forward- looking statements, the Company undertakes no obligation to update these statements for revisions or changes after the date of this release.

For more information, please contact:
Ms. Sandy Tang
Telecom Communications, Inc.
Tel: +852-2782-0983
Email: pr@tcom8266.com

Source: Telecom Communications, Inc.

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