ALPHARETTA, Ga.---Jan. 19, 1999--The Network Connection,
Inc. (TNCi) (NASDAQ:TNCX) announced today that Carnival Cruise Lines, the
world's largest cruise line, has released an order under a four-year contract
announced in September 1998 for the installation and maintenance of
CruiseView(R), TNCi's advanced interactive television entertainment system,
for immediate retrofit installation on an existing Carnival Cruise Lines ship
in commercial use.

According to Wil Riner, TNCi Chairman and CEO, "We are excited as a first
step to be able to retrofit all passenger cabins on an existing Carnival ship
with the all-digital CruiseView product."

The CruiseView all-digital system can support personal interactive
entertainment and video/audio on demand, shopping, multi-player games,
gambling, shore excursion/event booking, Internet and business services, all
simultaneously, independently and with full user control via a wireless
television remote control in each cabin or information kiosks throughout the
ship. CruiseView can also provide interactive training for crew cabins or
shared areas at the same time.

Carnival Cruise Lines is the world's largest cruise line based on passengers
carried. The line currently operates 13 ships and has five more vessels under
construction slated for delivery over the next four years, representing an
investment of approximately $2.1 billion.

TNCi, designs, manufactures and distributes the Cheetah(R) family of video
server platforms that enable the storage and delivery of up to 700 hours of
digital video/audio data to up to 300 simultaneous video/audio users over
local area networks. Cheetah(R) servers are used to bring interactive,
on-demand, full-motion video training, education and entertainment to the
networked client computers in the corporate, home, educational and cruise ship
(CruiseView[R]), aircraft (AirView[R]), train (TrainView[tm]) and hotel
(InnView[tm]) travel related entertainment and transport environments.

Information about Carnival is easily accessible through the World Wide Web
at (http://www.carnival.com) and for TNCi at (http://tnc.www.com).

Statements in this press release that are not descriptions of historical
facts may be forward-looking statements, as that term is defined in the
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, that are subject to risks
and uncertainties, including economic, competitive and technological factors
affecting the Company's operations, markets, products, services and prices,
unforeseeable delays in delivery and installation or the failure to execute
further definitive orders on favorable terms or at all for the program
identified above, as well as other specific factors discussed in the Company's
filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.