Exhibit 99.1


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

          eLEC Communications Raises $1.7 Million To Complete Proposed
           Liberty Bell Telecom Acquisition and Amends All Convertible
                             Debt to Non-Convertible

  - Proposed Acquisition To Add $5 Million In Revenues and Positive Cash Flow -

    - Elimination of Conversion Feature Of Previous Financings Simplifies and
                         Strengthens Capital Structure -

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - June 8, 2006 - eLEC Communications Corp. (OTCBB:ELEC) today
announced that it has raised $1.7 million from the sale of a three-year  secured
term note to Laurus Master Fund, Ltd. ("Laurus Funds"). The proceeds of the sale
will be used primarily to fund the proposed purchase of Liberty Bell Telecom and
for working capital needs.

Under the terms of the Laurus Funds financing,  the note is payable over a three
year period,  with principal  payment  deferred for the first year. A portion of
the  proceeds has been  deposited in a restricted  cash account and is not to be
released until the pending  acquisition  of Liberty Bell is completed.  The note
bears an  interest  rate  equal to the Wall  Street  Journal  Prime  Rate plus 2
percent.  eLEC  will file a Current  Report on Form 8-K to  further  disseminate
details of the transaction,  including items such as the restricted cash account
and warrants.

eLEC and Laurus also amended and restated  existing  secured term notes,  making
notes that were formerly convertible into common stock, non-convertible.

Paul Riss,  eLEC's CEO,  commented,  "This  financing  is positive for us in two
ways.  First,  the  financing  provides  us with the capital to  consummate  the
proposed  acquisition of Liberty,  which will add considerable  scale, cash flow
and marketing capabilities for our emerging VoIP business.  Second, we completed
an important capital  restructuring by eliminating the conversion feature on the
convertible  debt,   thereby   providing  us  with  a  greatly   simplified  and
strengthened capital structure with which to build our business going forward."

In February,  eLEC signed a letter of intent to acquire  Liberty  Bell  Telecom,
LLC, a  privately-held  telecommunications  company that provides local and long
distance telephone service in the State of Colorado. Liberty Bell was founded by
Radio  and  Television  Consumer  Advocate,  Tom  Martino,  in  response  to his
frustration  with the  service  he was  receiving  from  large  local  telephone
companies.

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Liberty Bell generated  approximately $5 million of revenue in 2005 and produced
over  $150,000 in net profits in the fourth  quarter of 2005.  Tom Martino  will
become a stockholder  in eLEC and will remain with Liberty Bell to help roll out
its new VoIP service  offerings,  which meet his vision of  excellent  telephone
service at affordable prices -- nationwide.


About eLEC Communications
eLEC  Communications  Corp.  is an  integrated  communications  provider that is
taking  advantage  of  the  convergence  of  the  technological  and  regulatory
developments in the Internet and  telecommunications  markets.  eLEC's operating
subsidiaries  offer  wholesale  broadband  voice,  origination  and  termination
services  for  cable  operators,  carriers,  ISPs,  CLECs,  resellers  and other
wireless and wireline operators,  as well as enhanced VoIP telephone service and
local and long distance  wireline  service to the small business and residential
marketplace. For more information, visit www.elec.net.

This  release  contains  forward-looking   statements  that  involve  risks  and
uncertainties.  eLEC's  actual  results may differ  materially  from the results
discussed  in the  forward-looking  statements.  Factors that might cause such a
difference include, among others, certain risks and uncertainties over which the
company  may  have  no  control.  For  further  discussion  of  such  risks  and
uncertainties,  which could cause actual results to differ from those  contained
in the  forward-looking  statements,  see the  discussions  contained  in eLEC's
Annual  Report on Form 10-K for the year ended  November 30, 2005 and  Quarterly
Report on Form 10-Q for the period ending  February 28, 2006, and any subsequent
SEC filings.

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For more information, please contact:

Kim Martin
eLEC Communications Corp.
813.217.9777
kmartin@voxcorp.net
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John Nesbett
Institutional Marketing Services, Inc.
212-668-0813
jnesbett@institutionalms.com
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