Zoom FaxModem Wins Ziff-Davis Award in Germany
Zoom V.34XE FaxModem named price/performance leader by PC Professionell magazine

Boston, MA, Feb. 12, 1996 - The Zoom FaxModem V.34XE has been chosen as the price/performance leader by PC Professionell magazine in a comparison of 14 competing V.34 external faxmodems selling in Germany. The award was announced in the February 1996 issue of PC Professionell, a leading German monthly computer trade magazine published by Ziff Verlag GmbH, a subsidiary of Ziff-Davis Publishing Company.

In its review, PC Professionell commented: "The V.34XE FaxModem, a first-time participant, skyrocketed to the front of the pack." The review concluded that the V.34XE's high connectivity and throughput performance, extended status reporting lights, and reasonable cost, plus Zoom's service and 7-year warranty "left the competition behind."

"We at Zoom are very pleased to be recognized by PC Professionell for the quality and value of our V.34XE faxmodem," said Terry Manning, Zoom's Director of Marketing. "We know that the German PC market pays close attention to the results of reviews in the technical press. This award from Ziff-Davis, which which we understand to have the best editorial benchmark testing laboratory in Germany, clearly differentiates Zoom from the rest of the pack."

Zoom faxmodem products are available through major European retail chains including Vobis, the largest PC retailer in Germany. Zoom Telephonics products are also retailed in Germany by Aera, Schadt, Brinkmann, Conrad, and PC Specialist.

Zoom products are also available in over 5,000 retail locations in North America and through distribution channels in Argentina, Brazil, the Czech Republic, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Poland, Republic of South Africa, Russia, Singapore, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom.

Established in 1977, Zoom designs, manufactures and markets a wide range of telecommunications products that link people and their personal computers to each other through the telephone network. Zoom's product family includes internal, external, PCMCIA (PC-Card), and pocket models for PC-compatible and Macintosh computers. Features include full-duplex speakerphone, voice mail, caller ID, and voice-plus- data capabilities. PCMCIA models can be used on landlines or plugged into a cellular telephone for wireless fax and data communications.

Zoom Telephonics is publicly traded on NASDAQ (NASDAQ: ZOOM).