Zoom's PC-Card Top-Rated by Italy's PC Professionale Magazine
PC Card Growth in European Market was 66% in 1996

Boston, MA, January 31, 1997 - The Zoom®/PC-Card V.34C FaxModem recently received a top-ranking from Italy's PC Professionale magazine, out-performing 14 competing modems in its review of PCMCIA cards. The review said that the performance of the Zoom V.34C "is good regardless of the disturbances on the telephone connection."

According to the article, the Zoom V.34C offers "a complete package: all at one of the most competitive prices." In addition, PC Professionale noted that the documentation for Zoom's product included "very well designed manuals in English."

The article stated that purchases of PC-Cards in Europe are expected to increase 35% this year. Last year's growth rate was 66% as PC cards first became widely available. The percentage of users in Europe accessing the Internet is expected to reach 51% in 1997, up from 44 percent last year, according to PC Professionale.

The Zoom V.34C has also received high ratings by the North American trade press, winning "Best Buy"status from PC World Magazine for eight straight months.

Zoom Telephonics designs, produces, and markets products that link people and their personal computers through the world's largest network, the international telephone network, and connected networks including the Internet and corporate local area networks. Zoom products are currently distributed in 45 nations around the world.

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

The Zoom Internet Web Site is www.zoomtel.com