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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

LINX COMMUNICATIONS SPONSORS REVERE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT AT CAMP TELECOM

Massachusetts Telecommunications Council's Camp Telecom Offers Summer Program For Students Interested In Technology

Newton, MA - August 7, 2000 - Linx Communications, Inc., a leading communications Application Service Provider (ASP) delivering unified communications and messaging services to businesses and individuals, was one of 18 sponsors at the 2nd Annual Camp Telecom, a program for high school students to explore Java programming, Flash computer animation, and wireless and broadband technology. Created by the Massachusetts Telecommunications Council and held in conjunction with UMASS Boston, Northeast Center for Telecommunications Technologies and the Metropolitan School-to-Career Partnership, the three-week program was held July 10-28, 2000.

Camp Telecom provided a unique opportunity for high school juniors and seniors with an ardent interest in telecommunications, computer science, and technology to explore these areas with experts from the industry. Linx joined Comverse Network Systems, Brooktrout Technology, Fidelity Investments, Genuity, RCN, Sun Microsystems, and others in sponsoring the participation of 26 local high school students and four teachers.

"Linx is proud to sponsor a second year of Camp Telecom," said Jeff Schlueter, vice president of marketing and product development at Linx Communications. "Anything we can do to create a stronger alliance between industry and education is important to Linx. We believe it's critical to mold the future workforce and to encourage students' interest in telecommunications. We hope the students who participated in Camp Telecom will become tomorrow's leaders in telecommunications and computer science.

"I wish the program could have been six weeks instead of three," said Veasna Chan, Linx' sponsor student who is a senior at Revere High School. "I am so thankful that Linx gave me the opportunity to study and learn about computer animation and programming. The HTML/Java area is particularly interesting to me - it is pretty neat what you can create. This was my first year with computers and I plan to continue my studies in the coming school year. The Camp Telecom experience has really increased my interest in technology."

As part of this program, students spent time in the computer labs at UMASS Boston and participated in classroom work, career exploration and field trips to local telecommunications companies. "A fast-paced, young, leading-edge telecom company like Linx is what excites these students - unified communications is interesting and inspiring to high school students with a thirst for technology," said the Massachusetts Telecommunications Council's Executive Director Katherine Raphaelson. "The support of our sponsor companies has meant so much to these students, and hopefully has influenced the future direction for many of our students who departed with a great knowledge and interest in telecommunications."

Linx Services
As an ASP, Linx offers outsourced communications and messaging services to small to medium businesses, large organizations and mobile professionals. This enables companies to take advantage of a full suite of basic and advanced communications and messaging solutions without incurring the capital costs of procuring and maintaining internal systems and equipment. Linx' suite of customizable services includes enhanced voice mail/fax, follow-me, automated attendant and one-number unified communications.

About Linx Communications
Headquartered in Newton, Mass., Linx Communications (www.linxcom.com) is a communications Application Service Provider (ASP), providing comprehensive unified communications services and virtual office solutions for small to medium businesses and mobile professionals. Linx' suite of unified communications services enables businesses to quickly and easily deploy voice, fax and messaging solutions and to expand those services as their business needs evolve. Linx partners with leading service providers including Digital Broadband, Focal, Network Plus, and TeleGea. Its customers include 3Com, Agilent, Apple Computer, AristaSoft, EMC, Fidelity, iVillage.com, and Juniper.

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