Press Release

Los Angeles, CA -- March 18, 2004 -- Advanced Communications and SmarterTools, Inc. today announced the signing of a strategic agreement. The agreement covers Advanced Communication's Hosting Controller, the world’s leading Windows hosting automation tools, and SmarterTools’s SmarterMail and SmarterStats, the high quality mail and stats software solutions. The products are perfect complements to each other, giving web hosting companies easy and low-cost access to most needed web hosting software components.

Under the terms of the agreement, Hosting Controller users will will be able to obtain a free SmarterMail and SmarterStats product license with each purchase of Hosting Controller. The agreement marks the beginning of a long-term strategic business relationship between the companies to enhance complete hosting automation solution at the very affordable prices.

“Our goal is to provide high quality products for a very reasonable price to the web hosting industry. By integrating our two products, we are working together to realize the full promise of cost effective hosting solution for the web hosting industry.” said Steve Roth, Sales Director of SmarterTools, Inc.

“We are committed to providing our users with a complete out-of-the-box solution for web hosting automation, eliminating the guesswork and frustration of mixing and matching disparate applications,” stated Syed Nauman Hashmi, Advanced Communication's CEO. “SmarterTool’s SmarterStats and SmarterMail Suite and Hosting Controller jointly support the entire web hosting workflow, from provisioning to powerful mail and stats services, thus giving the most cost effective solution to the web hosting industry.”

Hosting Controller is the most powerful and flexible multilingual automation software which offers service providers with a reliable, secure and scalable solution to build and manage Windows hosting environments quickly and easily. It has many advanced features and a sophisticated billing system to automate and improve your web hosting tasks.

About Advanced Communications

Advanced Communications, based in Los Angeles, USA specializes in hosting automation and billing solutions. Products of Advanced Communications include AdvancedVoIP.com, AdvancedISPBilling.com, AdvancedRadius.com, ASPFusion.net and the flagship product HostingController.com. With a staff of over 30 qualified and talented programmers specializing in COM, DCOM, ColdFusion, ASP, Java/JSP and Visual C++, XML/XSL; Advanced Communications has been able to provide software solutions to meet the demands of hosting providers and ISPs worldwide.

The company's flagship product, Hosting Controller, is the definitive management tool for Windows based hosting servers, user-friendly, yet powerful enough to manage routine system administration tasks, DNS, mail, database connections, database backups and restoration, web site statistics and billing. Based on the latest development technology, Hosting Controller is a powerful remote administration tool for Windows web hosting, providing administrators with the tools they need to manage and maintain their FTP and WWW sites seamlessly with secure, confined separate environments for hosts, resellers and administrators.

For more information about Advanced Communications, visit http://advcomm.net or call +1 (213) 995-3037.

About SmarterTools, Inc

SmarterTools Inc. is a privately held company based in Phoenix, Arizona specializing in internet related products and services that fill voids other competing products ignore.