Exhibit 99.1
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American Telecom Services and Lingo to Deliver VoIP Services
Bundled With New Digital Clear DECT 6.0 Phones
Lingo Contact: Ravi Bhatia, President
(703) 902-2835
(571) 265-2295
rbhatia@primustel.com
ATS Contact: Bruce Hahn, CEO
(310) 871-9904
(404) 261-7466
Bruce.Hahn@atsphone.com
ATS Investor Contact: Brett Maas, Principal
Hayden Communications
(646) 536-7331
brett@haydenir.com
ATS Media Relations: Danielle Ross
Comunicano, Inc.
(858) 314-2958
dross@comunicano.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
McLean, Va. and City of Industry, Calif.--December 20, 2006-- Lingo, Inc., a
leading broadband phone service provider, and American Telecom Services, Inc.,
(AMEX: TES) a leading provider of converged communications solutions, today
announced the launch of a program to sell Lingo's broadband phone service
bundled with American Telecom Services' Digital Clear Internet phones through
office superstores and mass market retail channels.
Lingo offers several competitive and high quality Internet phone service rates
plans for consumers and small businesses. The first bundle to be offered through
leading national retailers will be the new and recently Lingo certified ATS
X10001P Digital Clear DECT 6.0 Internet phones and the X10002P extensions. The
combination of ATS' Digital Clear Internet phone and Lingo's broadband phone
service plans offer consumers the ability to save hundreds of dollars a year on
their total phone expense using interference-free cordless technology. Lingo and
ATS intend to expand their service offerings and Digital Clear telephones to
provide consumers and small businesses with a wide selection of offers and
savings.
"We are very excited to be working with Lingo to bring their offering into the
retail channel," said Bruce Hahn, ATS CEO. "The addition of Lingo gives us
increased diversity at retail where we will now have three consumer and small
business service offerings to package with our broad product selection. We look
forward to further expanding our hardware line to complement Lingo's service
offering. Lingo offers a savings opportunity for consumers and small businesses
that we haven't been able to offer previously, such as international phone
numbers and a variety of small business plans. We believe Lingo's broad and
competitively priced, high quality service offerings are highly complementary to
our current product offering, and we expect to expand our distribution from this
strategic partnership."
"Bundling our competitively priced, high quality Lingo broadband phone service
offerings with ATS's diverse product lineup at retail represents a tremendous
new initiative for Lingo and a new opportunity for consumers to experience
significant savings and feature enhancements offered through our services," said
Ravi Bhatia, President of Lingo. "This is a great opportunity for Lingo to bring
its services to the retail market and we look forward to working together with
ATS to continue to enhance our value propositions to consumers and small
businesses."
The combined Lingo-ATS offering will launch in the first quarter of 2007 with a
bundle that combines the X10001P with Lingo's service offerings. We expect the
bundles to be made available at a select number of ATS' 14,000 national retailer
stores as well as e-tailers.
About Lingo
Lingo, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of McLean, Virginia-based Primus
Telecommunications Group, Incorporated (OTCBB:PRTL), is a leading supplier of
consumer and business VoIP and broadband phone service. Primus is a global
communications company with operations in North America, Europe, Australia and
Asia. Founded in 1994, Primus first entered the VoIP market in 1999 and owns and
operates an extensive global network, including a VoIP network which spans 150
countries and carries over 2 billion minutes of worldwide VoIP traffic annually.
For more information on Lingo or Primus, visit http://www.lingo.com or
www.primustel.com.
About American Telecom Services
American Telecom Services, a leading provider of traditional and internet phones
bundled with service offerings, currently offers Digital Clear Internet phone
bundles powered by SunRocket and Lingo, Inc (Voice-over-Internet-Protocol or
"VoIP") and Pay N' Talk prepaid residential long distance communications
services powered by IDT. These services are bundled with ATS' diverse line of
custom-designed digital cordless multi-handset phones. ATS sells its
phone/service bundles through major retailers under the "American Telecom",
"ATS", "Pay N' Talk" and "Digital Clear" brand names.
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cause actual results to differ materially from historical results or those the
Company anticipates. Factors that could cause actual results to differ from
those contained in the forward-looking statement include, but are not limited
to, those risks and uncertainties described in the Company's prospectus dated
February 1, 2006 and the other reports and documents the Company files from time
to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Statements included in this
press release are based upon information known to the Company as of the date of
this press release, and the Company assumes no obligation to (and expressly
disclaims any such obligation to) publicly update or alter its forward-looking
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future events or otherwise, except as otherwise required by applicable federal
securities laws.
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