Primus BEX Expands to Vancouver, Edmonton, Brampton and London After High Demand

 Primus BEX Expands to Vancouver, Edmonton, Brampton and London After
High Demand BEX - BUSINESS ETHERNET XTENDEDTM - Set for
Additional Expansion in First Half of 2012

TORONTO, ON, April 25 , 2012 - Primus Telecommunications Canada Inc.
(Primus Canada), a wholly owned subsidiary of PTGi (Primus
Telecommunications Group, Incorporated)<http://www.ptgi.com/> (NYSE:
PTGI), today announced it has expanded the availability of BEX -
BUSINESS ETHERNET XTENDEDTM to Vancouver, Edmonton, Brampton and
London in order to better support the significant customer demand for
the service. The company also intends to expand the reach of BEX into
four additional Ontario markets in the coming months.

BEX delivers high bandwidth at affordable rates to companies over
Ethernet-in-the-First-Mile protocols that enable them to support
Internet-intensive applications and technology while creating greater
opportunities for efficiency and success. With BEX, businesses can
save 47 percent compared to fibre for the same reliable dedicated
access their business needs.  Additionally, given three quarters of
Canadian businesses don´t have access to fibre based Internet, BEX
enables small and medium businesses to get the quality and speed of
connection that they otherwise could not access or afford.

"We have seen greater than a 250 percent increase in demand for our
BEX technology over the last six months, which is phenomenal for a
service that launched a little over one year ago.  At the same time,
we have had many companies who are outside of our current footprint
letting us know that they want access to the service.  Today we are
able to meet part of this demand by expanding to four new cities and
committing to additional growth later this year," said AJ Byers,
Executive Vice President of Primus Business Services. "With this BEX
expansion, more companies are now able to take advantage of increased
bandwidth as well as upload and download speeds of up to 20 Mbps at
prices that are more affordable than traditional services."

BEX is delivered over existing infrastructure making it an easy and
fast deployment for customers.  With the rapid migration of voice and
computing services to the cloud as the driving force, Primus Canada is
providing a symmetrical Internet solution that, unlike a DSL or cable
connection, provides customers with the same 20 Mbps speeds when
uploading as they get downloading. These fast upload speeds ensure
business applications in the cloud, VOIP, VPN and video streaming run
smoothly, and eliminate poor voice quality, jittery video, and  cloud
application slowness, that are typically associated with slow upload
speeds. Given that customer bandwidth is not shared, slower speeds due
to congestion are also no longer an impediment to the consistent and
reliable performance of business critical online applications.

Unison Health and Community Services, a non-profit, community-based
organization that assists 22,000 individuals through four Toronto
locations, uses Primus BEX to connect two of its locations to each
other and the communities it serves.

"It´s critical for our teams to be able to quickly and easily
reach each other and the clients we help. The speed and service
quality delivered by BEX is a dramatic improvement that solved the
network issues we experienced with our old traditional Internet
provider. This major improvement in speed and quality, combined with
the cost savings achieved with BEX helps us operate much more
efficiently," said Jamal Alqadi, Information Technology Specialist
with Unison Health and Community Services.

Since launching BEX in March 2011, Primus now services seven cities,
and plans to continue growing the footprint with coverage launching in
Brantford, Hamilton, Kingston, and Windsor by mid-2012. These
expansions underscore the company´s ongoing commitment to
substantially invest in broadband network infrastructure. With the
continuing increase of digital communications and technology-based
business transactions, the demand for an infrastructure to support
such activities also continues to grow. With Primus Canada´s BEX -
BUSINESS ETHERNET XTENDEDTM, users are able to experience better
quality, improved support lead time and faster time to resolution.
"PTGi understands that organizations of all sizes download
information from the Internet, run online business applications and
upload content to customers around the world and therefore must have
access to reliable, fast Internet service," said Primus Canada CEO
Andrew Day. "This is a cornerstone of our company´s ongoing
commitment to being a leading provider of advanced communication
solutions, including traditional and IP voice and data services."


About Primus Business Services
Primus Business Services<http://www.primuspbs.ca/> is a leading
national data centre and managed services solutions provider, offering
services that include virtual storage and security, disaster recovery
and cloud computing, voice, and IP connectivity solutions. Primus
Business Services owns and manages eight world-class, state-of-the-art
data centres across Canada.  Primus Business Services is a division of
Primus Telecommunications Canada Inc<http://www.primustel.ca/>. Visit
www.primuspbs.ca<http://www.primuspbs.ca/> for more information.

About PTGi
PTGi (Primus Telecommunications Group, Incorporated) is a leading
provider of advanced communication solutions, including broadband
Internet, traditional and IP voice, data, mobile services,
collocation, hosting, and outsourced managed services to business and
residential customers in the United States, Canada, and Australia.
PTGi is also one of the leading international wholesale service
providers to telecommunications carriers worldwide. PTGi owns and
operates its own global network of next-generation IP soft switches,
media gateways, hosted IP/SIP platforms, broadband infrastructure,
fiber capacity, and data centers located in Canada, and Australia.
Founded in 1994, PTGi is headquartered in McLean, Virginia.

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