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TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION SELECTS PREMIERE CONFERENCING AND XPEDITE TO INCREASE MEMBER COMMUNICATIONS
Ptek Business Units to Improve Communications with Constituents

KANSAS CITY, KS and TINTON FALLS, NJ (February 4, 2002) Premiere Conferencing (www.premconf.com), an industry leader for automated, enhanced and Web-based conferencing solutions and a business unit of Ptek Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTEK; www.ptek.com), today announced that the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), the leading trade association in the communications and information technology industry, has selected ReadyConference^SM from Premiere Conferencing for its automated conferencing service, and PremiereCall for its larger events. TIA will also be using Premiere Conferencing's Web-based collaboration services ReadyCast^SM and VisionCast®. In addition, TIA has selected Xpedite, the leading provider of multimedia messaging, to provide broadcast fax and email messaging, through its messageREACH^SM service, for member communications.

"We chose Premiere Conferencing and Xpedite as part of our e-association initiative, because their services provided us with the ability to communicate quickly and effectively with our growing membership," said Dan Bart, TIA's Senior Vice President of Standards and Special Projects. "Premiere Conferencing's services are well suited for TIA meetings, engineering committee meetings, planning and training sessions, and member education programs, and Xpedite's messaging capabilities help us stay in touch with our membership on an ongoing basis."

"We are pleased to provide services to an organization that represents leaders in the telecommunications industry," said Ted Schrafft, President of Premiere Conferencing. "Our suite of services from high-end operator assisted calls such as PremiereCall to reservationless automated conferencing services like ReadyConference proved to be the perfect solution for TIA."

TIA is the leading trade association serving the communications and information technology industry, with proven strengths in market development, trade shows, domestic and international advocacy, standards development and enabling e-business. The association provides a market-focused forum for its more than 1,100 member companies that manufacture or supply the products and services used in global communications.

About Premiere Conferencing

Premiere Conferencing (www.premconf.com) is a full service, global provider of enhanced, automated and Web-based collaboration solutions. As a business unit of Ptek Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:PTEK - news; www.ptek.com), the company facilitates group communications through its breadth of services and proprietary technology. Premiere Conferencing's Web-enabled services, ReadyCast^SM and VisionCast®, combine live demo, audio conferencing and leading-edge Internet technology to provide remote, interactive broadcasts and collaborative presentations. Premiere Conferencing's domestic and international client base includes more than 49,000 organizations from various industries, including technology, healthcare, investor relations, financial, public relations and market research. Its client base includes IBM Corporation, HCA The Healthcare Company, Hewlett-Packard, Merck, Merrill Lynch, SGI, Charles Schwab and PaineWebber. Premiere Conferencing has domestic headquarters and operations centers in Lenexa, Kan., and Colorado Springs, Colo., and operations in Canada, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, United Kingdom, Germany and France.

About Xpedite

Xpedite (www.xpedite.com) is a global leader in multimedia messaging and a business unit of Ptek Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTEK). Xpedite offers a full range of value-added multimedia messaging services worldwide that manage and facilitate the electronic distribution of information to all types of electronic addresses including fax, e-mail, wireless and voice. Xpedite processed approximately 1.6 billion messages in 2000, and was named by IDC as the worldwide leader in fax-based messaging. The company's messageREACH^SM (www.messagereach.com) service offers the most robust outsourced e-mail applications available, providing control, tracking, security, personalization and automated administration for high volume e-mail distribution. Xpedite's diverse client base includes almost half of the Fortune 500 companies, including such industry leaders as Boeing, Bank One, Marriott, Merck, Xerox and Chase Manhattan. Xpedite has sales offices in 30 locations throughout the United States and 25 international offices, including Tokyo, London, Sydney, Seoul, Singapore, Brussels, Munich, Paris, Milan, Hong Kong, Taipei, Geneva, Zurich and Kuala Lumpur.

About Ptek Holdings, Inc.

Ptek Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTEK - news) is a leading provider of communications and data services, including conference calling and Web-based collaboration; high-volume fax, e-mail and voice message delivery; and personal communications management systems that handle voice mail, e-mail and personal content. Ptek's business units include Premiere Conferencing, Xpedite and Voicecom.

Ptek Holdings corporate headquarters is located at 3399 Peachtree Road NE, The Lenox Building, Atlanta, GA 30326. Additional information can be found at www.ptek.com.

For Investor Relations-related inquiries, please contact Eric Martin at 404-504-2461.

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