Press Release

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — July 11, 2003 — If Broadband Internet access were available everywhere, everybody would subscribe to it, right? That's why we've seen so much pressure on the supply side of Broadband access. Government subsidized infrastructure build-out and legislative pressure on Telecom companies to provide access in rural areas are two frequently seen examples. It seems now though, that there is a problem with the premise — it is not a supply problem after all. Rather, the demand is just not there.

Evidence of this is shown through studies funded by the State's Link Michigan project. These studies have found that there isn't enough demand for Broadband, so budgets have been redefined to include more money to explain why people should want broadband and less on the development of actual Broadband services.

Dial-Up providers, like PathWay Internet Services, Inc., are doing as much as they can to increase the value of their services to the dial-up community. With the addition of V.92 to their service offerings, their customers enjoy increased connection speeds, reduced time required to connect, and the ability to accept and make voice calls without disconnecting from the Internet over a single regular telephone line.

Horace Demmink, Chief Executive Officer, believes this will even further reduce the move to Broadband. "When a dial-up customer feels he needs an extra phone line so as not to miss calls, the cost of that line, added to the monthly ISP charge, usually gets to within a few dollars of the introductory Broadband charges, and many customers make the move based on that."

Demmink explains that with V.92, the second phone line cost rationale is now moot, "with the faster connections and no need for two phone lines, it will be harder to leave, and even easier to come back to dial-up."

For More information on PathWay's V.92 service, readers may call 888-272-8492 or log on to www.pathwaynet.com.