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EXHIBIT 24
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Each director of MDU Communications International, Inc. (the "Company"),
whose signature appears below, hereby appoints Robert A. Biagioni as his
attorney to sign, in his name and behalf and in any and all capacities stated
below, the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the "Registration
Statement") for the registration of securities in connection with the exercise
and subsequent sale of employee benefit plan stock options, and likewise to sign
any and all amendments and other documents relating thereto as shall be
necessary to cause the Registration Statement to become effective (including
post-effective amendments), and to sign any and all such documents upon the
advice of legal counsel to carry out the exercise and sale of the option shares,
each such person hereby granting to such attorney power to act with or without
the other and full power of substitution and revocation, and hereby ratifying
all that such attorney or his substitute may do by virtue hereof.
This Power of Attorney has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities indicated, on the 15th day of September, 2000.
SIGNATURE TITLE
/s/ J.E. (Ted) Boyle Director
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J.E. (Ted) Boyle
/s/ Robert Dyck Director
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Robert Dyck
/s/ Douglas G. Hooper Director
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Douglas G. Hooper
/s/ Sheldon B. Nelson Director, Chief
------------------------------------ Executive Officer and
Sheldon B. Nelson President
