Contract Renewal

Eckoh Technologies PLC
14 April 2005


For immediate release                                              14 April 2005

                             Eckoh Technologies plc

        Eckoh Technologies renew interactive telephony contract with ITV

Eckoh Technologies plc ("Eckoh"), one of Europe's largest speech application
service providers, today announced it has been re-appointed by ITV, the UK's
biggest commercial television network, to provide premium rate telephone
services to the channel. Eckoh anticipates that revenues from the new contract
will be higher than those generated in the previous year as ITV increases the
use of interactivity across its programming.

The new contract, which runs until at least June 2006, was awarded following a
year in which Eckoh has successfully operated premium rate telephone services
for ITV across a wide range of formats including hit shows such as I'm a
Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, Paul O'Grady, Ant and Dec's Saturday Night
Takeaway, Stars in their Eyes, Hell's Kitchen, Wish You Were Here, Today and
This Morning. In this period Eckoh have successfully handled more than 28
million calls for ITV.

ITV will continue to use Eckoh's market leading call processing platform which,
with around 10,000 ports, is the largest of its kind in the UK, enabling
services to be launched quickly and with the maximum flexibility. For live shows
Eckoh also provide ITV with real-time monitoring of response from fixed line and
mobile calls, SMS and red button using Eckoh's proprietary VISTA platform
(Viewer Interaction Statistical Analysis).

Nik Philpot, Chief Operating Officer for Eckoh Technologies, says:

"This is the largest media contract in the UK for telephony services and we feel
very privileged to have been awarded it for the second year running. I would
like to thank the team at Eckoh who have worked so hard on this account, as
undoubtedly the high level of service they have delivered, despite the huge
pressure that comes with live broadcasting, has been a crucial factor in
retaining the business.

A year ago I talked about the shared desire we had with ITV to grow interactive
telephony revenues by developing innovative, compelling formats and I'm
delighted that we are seeing the fruition of this which we hope to see
continuing in 2005."

Jane Marshall, Interactive Controller for ITV Broadcasting, commented:

"It was great that this year we did not have to run a new tender process for
this contract as Eckoh have consistently demonstrated a high level of customer
and technical service. We very much view Eckoh as a partner in our interactive
business and we were extremely pleased to be able to appoint them as our
supplier again for the coming year."


For further enquiries, please contact

Eckoh Technologies plc                                        Tel: [phone]
Nik Philpot, Chief Operating Officer

Buchanan Communications                                       Tel: [phone]
Mark Edwards/Jeremy Garcia

Notes to Editors

About Eckoh Technologies:

Eckoh Technologies plc designs, builds, hosts and manages Speech Solutions for
large corporations and organisations using ASR (Advanced Speech Recognition) and
IVR (Interactive Voice Response) technologies. It is a leading UK service
provider and infrastructure owner/operator, and intends to exploit the
anticipated growth in demand for Speech Solutions across Europe.

In January 2003, Eckoh signed a landmark deal to create an exclusive speech
alliance with BT to provide hosted speech recognition solutions to their
corporate client base over the next 2 years. This contract was then subsequently
extended until December 2006. In December 2003, BT and Eckoh announced
significant contracts to the value of £6m with UGC Cinemas, TD Waterhouse, RNIB
and Wire-E and now have live services with over 20 clients including ATOC,
Barclays, Lloyds TSB and Enterprise Rent-a-car.

In addition to those above, Eckoh has direct contracts to supply hosted Speech
Solutions to clients including Vue Cinemas, William Hill, 02, Virgin Mobile and
Northern Ireland Electricity.

Eckoh has a call processing platform of 10,000 lines (capable of handling over
500,000 calls an hour) of which over 6,000 lines incorporate speech recognition
technology making it the largest speech enabled call processing platform in
Europe.

Eckoh also operates the following businesses:
     
*    IVR - following the acquisition of Intelliplus Group plc in Sept

     2003, Eckoh is one of the largest providers of managed IVR and SMS services 
     in the UK to media clients including ITV, BBC, Trinity Mirror, Channel 4, 
     Endemol, Celador and EMAP.

*    Network Services - under the "Symphony" and "Freecom" brands, Eckoh
     supplies fixed line and mobile telephony services, broadband and data 
     services to SMEs in the UK and Ireland. Following the acquisition of 
     Intelliplus Network Services now has an SME customer base of over 13,000.

In the year to 31 March 2004 Eckoh Technologies plc generated a turnover of
£62.5 million and had a cash balance of £10.2m.

Further information can be found at www.eckoh.com.


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