Re Contract

Eckoh Technologies PLC
4 July 2002


For Immediate Release                                            4 July 2002


               Eckoh Technologies wins 3-year voice portal

                contract from Centrica Telecommunications



Eckoh Technologies plc, Europe's leading speech application service provider,
(formerly known as 365 Corporation plc), has secured a 3-year contract to build
and maintain a voice portal for Centrica Telecommunications.  The voice portal,
launched under the brand name Purple Duck, is a value added service for the
mobile product launched through the One.Tel brand.  Phase 2 of the development
of Purple Duck will see the product offered to the One.Tel fixed line customer
base.

The voice portal offers a variety of up-to-date speech-activated news, sports
and entertainment content. In addition the service includes Eckoh Technologies'
mobile email reader allowing One.Tel mobile customers to listen and reply to
emails (including web mail providers such as Hotmail) at any time day or night.
Calls to Purple Duck   will cost 20p per minute.

Nik Philpot, Chief Operating Officer of Eckoh Technologies, commended:

"This is a significant contract for Eckoh Technologies but also for the voice
services industry as a whole.  The long term commitment by Centrica
Telecommunications is a major boost for our sector and it consolidates our
market leading position in the provision of advanced speech recognition
applications."

Phil Hendey, Commercial Director, of Centrica, added:

 "The launch of mobile from One.Tel was another step towards our ambition of
becoming a full service communications company. The addition of Purple Duck to
this, delivered by Eckoh Technologies, is a great example of how we listen to
customers and tailor our products and services to their needs.  We firmly
believe that the £4.99 monthly line rental, competitive call rates and the
impressive range of facilities offered by Purple Duck will appeal to consumers.

Under the terms of the deal with Centrica Telecommunications, Eckoh Technologies
will design, build and host the voice portal application, provide ongoing system
maintenance and content provision.


For further enquiries, please contact


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

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




Notes to Editors:

About Centrica Telecommunications

Centrica Telecommunications is the leading indirect access telephone supplier in
the UK with over 1 million active customers across its two brands.  Having
launched the British Gas Communications business in September 2000 Centrica
showed its determination to become a significant telecoms provider when it
acquired One.Tel in the UK in July 2001.

The business aims to bring innovative telecoms products and services at
competitive prices. Centrica Telecommunications is widely seen as the most able
challenger to BT in the fixed line market having a 4% market share.  Centrica
also operates under four other brands in the UK - British Gas, Scottish Gas, the
AA and Goldfish Bank.

One.Tel is the UK's leading alternative telephone company providing 800,000
services to customers.  One.Tel is famous for its low cost call rates both at
home and abroad.   One.Tel is also an ISP, offering flat fee and per minute
narrowband connection and broadband products.


About Eckoh Technologies plc

Eckoh Technologies plc (formerly 365 Corporation plc) provides integrated speech
solutions to businesses.

In addition to high volume Interactive Voice Response (IVR) services, Eckoh
Technologies is the UK market leader in the fast growth Advanced Speech
Recognition (ASR) market. Eckoh Technologies specialises in designing, building
and hosting interactive speech applications using speech recognition technology
to blue chip clients across multiple industry sectors. At the heart of Eckoh
Technologies' speech solutions business is Europe's largest, independently owned
and operated speech-hosting platform, with a capacity forecast to be in excess
of 8,000 lines by the end of 2002 boasting the capability to handle in excess of
half a million calls per hour.

In June 2001, Eckoh Technologies launched its own voice portal 'Eckoh' which can
be accessed from any telephone - mobile or landline - simply by dialling one
number - 08701 10 10 10.  In November 2001, Virgin Mobile launched the first
major business-to-business syndication of Eckoh using its VirginXtras 4321 brand
and this was followed in May 2002 by a second major syndication of Eckoh in a 3
year contract to Centrica under the One Tel brand.

In February 2002, Eckoh Technologies signed a contract with Philips' to be its
preferred partner in the UK for providing hosted ASR services for Philips Speech
Processing's customers. Key to this partnership with Philips is leverage of its
multiple language speech modules, which are currently used within a broad range
of industries across Europe.

Eckoh Technologies also provides fixed-line, mobile and data network services to
over 6,000 businesses in the UK and Ireland under the "Symphony Telecom" brand.
It has developed a distribution network focussed on resellers of telephone
systems, and has national UK coverage with a particular emphasis on South East
England.

Eckoh Technologies' clients include Centrica, Granada, Chrysalis, EMAP, Johnston
Press, Sky Digital, Cartoon Network, Virgin Mobile and the Royal National
Institute for the Blind.

To hear a demonstration of Eckoh Technologies' product range, please dial 08701
100 600.  Further information can be found at www.eckoh.com or contact us by
dialling 08701 100 200.


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