ETC Announces Dividend

Waukesha, WI—March 5, 1999

Electronic Tele-Communications, Inc. (ETC) today announced that its Board of Directors declared a dividend for the first quarter of 1999. The dividend will be $.04 per share and will be paid on March 31, 1999 to all Class A shareholders of record on March 15, 1999.

Electronic Tele-Communications is a manufacturer and supplier of Voice Application Processing Platforms to domestic and foreign telephone companies and original equipment manufacturers, and of messaging systems to the commercial market. ETC's equipment provides a wide range of audio information and call handling services via the telephone network. ETC, with corporate headquarters in Waukesha, Wisconsin also has operation in Atlanta, Georgia and Pleasanton, California.

For further information contact: Dean Danner, President; Jeff Nigl, Chief Financial Officer (262-542-5600)

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