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                                                                    Exhibit 23.1


                       Consent of Independent Accountants


   
We consent to the incorporation by reference in the prospectus of Network Plus
Corp., included in Amendment No. 3, dated December 23, 1998, to the registration
statement on Form S-1 (No. 333-64663), of our report dated June 24, 1998, except
for the information presented in notes 12 and 15, for which the dates are July
15, 1998 and September 3, 1998, respectively, on our audits of the financial
statements of Network Plus, Inc., as of December 31, 1997 and 1996, and for each
of the three years in the period ended December 31, 1997, which report is
included in this prospectus. We also consent to the incorporation by reference
of our report on the Financial Statement Schedule, which appears in Item 21(b)
of this Form S-1, and to the references to us under the headings "Independent
Accountants", "Summary Financial Data" and "Selected Financial Data". However,
it should be noted that PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP has not prepared or certified
such "Summary Financial Data" or "Selected Financial Data".
    




                                          /s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Boston, Massachusetts
   
December 23, 1998