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ACT Conferencing Signs SHI to Channel Program

Multi-billion dollar VAR to resell ACT's on-demand audio and web conferencing services

Lakewood, Colorado — June 22, 2010 ACT Conferencing has added SHI, a $3 billion global provider of information technology products and services, to its expanding list of channel partners. The company is headquartered in Piscataway, New Jersey with offices located throughout the world, and ranks number 49 on Everything Channel's 2010 VAR 500 list. Initially, SHI will resell ACT's ReadyConnect® audio and web conferencing services in the U.S. with plans to expand internationally.

"SHI is a phenomenal force in the VAR industry, carrying long-standing relationships with many of the Fortune 1000 companies," said Paul Vick, director, channel and strategic sales, ACT Conferencing. "This relationship signals significant growth potential for both SHI and ACT because we're bringing a streamlined solution to SHI's knowledgeable sales reps. Coupled together SHI and ACT will give clients enormous value in their audio and web conferencing services."

SHI has a high standard when selecting partners and therefore the company thoroughly evaluated ACT's conferencing solutions for quality and its commitment and investment in serving its channel partners. SHI chose to work with ACT because of solid commitment around providing partners with unified communications support both pre and post sale. ACT's Unified Communications Team is working with SHI's more than 1,000 person sales force to provide services, sales and marketing training. ACT will also provide customer support to SHI's conferencing services clients.

"SHI is proud to maintain a 99 percent customer retention rate. We accomplish this by listening to our customers and addressing their pain points with cost-effective, high quality solutions," said Marc Malafronte, services manager for SHI. "By adding ACT's reservationless audio and web conferencing services to our product portfolio, we are addressing our clients' needs with what we believe are the industry's highest quality conferencing services and support available."

ACT's ReadyConnect self-managed audio and ReadyConnect Web Meeting conferencing services enable customers to schedule conference calls on-demand, 24 x 7,using one convenient dial-in number and passcode. VClients and their meeting participants have access to high-quality audio conferencing anytime and from anywhere. With ReadyConnect Web Meeting, clients can easily share presentations, documents, web content or applications instantly.

See more information about ACT's channel program.

About ACT Conferencing
Established in 1989, ACT Conferencing is a global provider of corporate audio conferencing, web conferencing and video conferencing services. ACT's integrated platforms provide managed, international and local-language services. The company is headquartered in Lakewood, Colorado, with operations in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore and the UK. For more information, visit www.actconferencing.com.

Cautionary Statements
Statements made in this news release that are not historical facts, such as those discussing future plans and management's beliefs, are forward-looking statements. Actual results may differ materially from those projected in any forward-looking statement. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated by any forward-looking information include, but are not limited to, future economic conditions, competitive services and pricing, new competitor entry, availability of financing, the delivery of services under existing contracts and other factors. Such statements are based on management's current expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections about our industry and business and include statements about markets for our products and services, and development and expansion of products. ACT does not expect and disclaims any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

Contact:
Michelle Chase Baum
Chase Communications
303.284.8440
michelle@chasecomm.net