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Gloucester, VA and Los Angeles, CA, December 23, 2004 -- Next-Star Communications and SwissDisk Inc. today announced that Next-Star has acquired SwissDisk.com and their sDrive online encrypted storage technology.

Used by financial intuitions, law firms, media professionals, architectural firms, and security conscious businesses, SwissDisk.com provides secure document storage and management that complies with data privacy and IT governance regulations.

SwissDisk.com and the sDrive technology complement Next-Star's existing online solutions and further strengthens their presence by adding an encrypted technology service offering to their existing online services.

Matt LaTray, President of Next-Star said "We look forward to a bright future for SwissDisk.com as it will allow us to provide new and existing customers with a leading edge encryption solution. We are very pleased to be able to offer encryption services on such a well designed platform."

"We're extremely excited about this news." said Tim Sullivan, Vice President of Next-Star Communications. "The acquisition of SwissDisk.com fits perfectly into our vision of offering an expanded communications package to our business clients. New product offerings will include encrypted file storage as well as secure file transfer/viewing."

"SwissDisk.com is an exceptional product and we feel confident that Next-Star is the right company to carry it forward," said Ben Collins, former CEO and founder of SwissDisk Inc. "We have identified Next-Star as a strong partner who would preserve the investments of our SwissDisk customers and assure them of continued product availability, customer support and future product enhancements."

About Next-Star Communications

Next-Star's facility is located in the heart of the downtown Los Angeles internet and telecommunications district. Their staff has over 40 years combined experience in the telecom service industry and offers the following services:

• Next-Star Service Bureau: VoIP equipment rental including gateways, gatekeeper, session controller and solutions for providing private label VoIP calling cards.
• Next-Star End User: retail customer accounts for calling cards, dial-around access, one number follow-me services, voice-mail, voice-to-text/email and call-back.
• Next-Star Wholesale Division: handles carrier termination for both domestic and international voice traffic around the world. Next-Star can terminate a call to any country in the world via VoIP and/or TDM connections at very competitive prices.
• Next-Star Instant Billing: service allows their customers to save time and money using on-line, real time system to view call records.
• Next-Star Encryption: the exciting new department featuring SwissDisk.com, offering customers around the world 24 hour access to the latest in secure encryption technology on an easy to use, fully redundant platform.

For more information or to sign up for a free trial account please visit our web sites or call the Next-Star sales department.

website: www.swissdisk.com
or website: www.next-star.com

Next-Star sales team is available at the following number: 213-623-5700