Kalispell, MT - January 26, 2006 - Auroras Entertainment, LLC and 3 Rivers Telephone Cooperative announced today the completion of a significant equity investment by 3 Rivers in the start-up IPTV company, Auroras. Headquartered in Fairfield, MT, 3 Rivers Telephone Cooperative is a leading provider of local telephone, long distance, fiber to the home, DSL, and other communications services. Auroras, headquartered in Kalispell, MT provides Internet Protocol Television services (IPTV) to communications companies nationwide.

As a result of this investment, 3 Rivers is poised to be among the first telephone companies in the nation to deploy advanced MPEG-4 video entertainment services to its customers. Darren Moser, General Manager of 3 Rivers explained, “We believe that Auroras has a great IPTV solution for rural telcos. Their recent demonstration in Montana of DVB-S2 satellite compression and MPEG-4 integration convinced us that this is a talented and innovative team that really understands our business needs. Our participation will help us to ensure that our customers receive the most advanced and up to date communications available. We also think it’s terrific that a company of this potential is headquartered in our state.”

Auroras CEO Diane Smith said, “To have a company of 3 Rivers reputation and position in the industry affirm its strong faith in our solution is outstanding. We were thrilled that 3 Rivers would be our customer, we are now even more thrilled that they will sit on our Board and help guide the direction of the company.”

Auroras anticipates commercial availability of its MPEG-4 IPTV solution this summer and has been working with customers nationwide, including 3 Rivers, to optimize its service for their needs. The Auroras solution will allow smaller or geographically dispersed telecommunications companies to successfully deploy the first truly on-demand video services. This service was demonstrated earlier this month in Whitefish, MT to a standing-room only crowd of communications company executives from Canada and the U.S.

3 Rivers Communications, with corporate headquarters in Fairfield, MT, is a fifty-two year-old telecommunications company originally founded as a rural telephone cooperative. Still a cooperative at its core, 3 Rivers has grown and diversified over the years and now offers long distance, local dial-up Internet, DSL broadband Internet, and competitive local telephone service in addition to traditional local telephone service. For more information see www.3rivers.net.

Auroras is a customer-focused, end-to-end IPTV service provider dedicated to ensuring that smaller broadband service providers can compete - and win - in the race to offer advanced television entertainment services. By leveraging advanced Edge technologies, the Auroras service platform delivers to its customers all of the tools for the On-Demand world.