31.01.2011 13:30:00

iMeet® Tells People Everywhere: Your Room is Waiting

PGi (NYSE: PGI), a global leader in virtual meetings for almost 20 years, today announced general availability of iMeet, its new innovation that gives people their own personal meeting room online.

After rigorous beta testing and a soft launch last fall, iMeet’s general availability brings to market the benefits of video conferencing, social networking, and media and file sharing – all in one place. iMeet enables face-to-face meetings for anyone connecting over the web, with enhanced group video that is as easy as flipping on a webcam – with no upfront capital costs or software downloads. No technical support or user manual required, either.

"When the conferencing industry began, the service was expensive, hard to use and largely reserved for the executive suite. Over a decade ago, PGi introduced automated, reservationless conferencing, bringing conference calls into the daily lives of busy professionals everywhere,” said Boland T. Jones, PGi founder, chairman and CEO. "PGi helped change the way people do business by improving the way they meet. Now, we intend to do the very same thing with video conferencing. With iMeet, we are bringing video conferencing to the masses, without the costly, dedicated video rooms that are currently reserved for a small segment of the workforce.”

"iMeet offers the richness and enhanced value of group video to anyone with a webcam, without clunky software downloads or capital investment,” continued Jones. "It is delivered in a refreshingly simple, wide open space – the iMeet room – that users can personalize to their liking. Unlike other video solutions, in iMeet, people can connect with popular social networks and get to know the people they are meeting with in a more personal and complete way.”

iMeet rooms come equipped with a robust file cabinet feature that enables hosts and their selected guests to store, show and share videos, pictures or documents. Users can even email files into their room from their desktop or mobile device. iMeet conversations flow over PGi’s enterprise class, global audio network – or through users’ computers from anywhere in the world, with any web phone.

"iMeet is refreshingly simple, intuitive and fun. Its multi-point desktop video, permanent, personalized meeting rooms and integration with social media technologies make meetings more friendly and human,” said Roopam Jain, senior analyst, Frost & Sullivan, Inc.

To join the community of over 5,000 current iMeet users, get your own personal iMeet meeting room by visiting www.imeet.com.

About Premiere Global Services, Inc. ¦ PGi

PGi is a global software and services company that enables real-time, virtual meetings. For almost 20 years, we have innovated technologies to empower people to connect, collaborate and come together in more enjoyable and productive ways. Every month, we bring together over 15 million people in nearly 4 million virtual meetings. Headquartered in Atlanta, PGi has a presence in 24 countries worldwide. For more information, visit us at www.pgi.com.

Statements made in this press release, other than those concerning historical information, should be considered forward-looking and subject to various risks and uncertainties. Such forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the "safe harbor” provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and are made based on management’s current expectations or beliefs as well as assumptions made by, and information currently available to, management. A variety of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated in Premiere Global Services, Inc.’s forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, the following factors: competitive pressures, including pricing pressures; technological changes; the development of alternatives to our services; general domestic and international economic, business or political conditions; risks associated with challenging global economic conditions or a prolonged recession, including customer consolidations, restructuring, bankruptcies or payment defaults; market acceptance of our new services and enhancements, including iMeet® and GlobalMeet®; our ability to complete acquisitions and successfully integrate acquired operations; concerns regarding the security of sending information over the Internet and public networks; our ability to upgrade our equipment or increase our network capacity; service interruptions; our dependence on telecommunications supply agreements; our increased financial leverage; our dependence on our subsidiaries for cash flow; future write-downs of goodwill or other intangible assets; assessments of income, sales and other taxes for which we have not accrued; our ability to attract and retain key personnel; our ability to protect our proprietary technology and intellectual property rights; our ability to successfully manage the post-sale aspects of the divestiture of our PGiSend business, including any financial effect from the loss of PGiSend revenue or earnings; possible adverse results of pending or future litigation or infringement claims; federal, state or international legislative or regulatory changes, including further government regulations applicable to traditional telecommunications service providers; risks associated with international operations and fluctuations in currency exchange rates; changes in and the successful execution of restructuring and cost reduction initiatives and the market reaction thereto; the effect the tender offer will have on our earnings per share; and other factors described from time to time in our press releases, reports and other filings with the SEC, including but not limited to the "Risk Factors” sections of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2009, our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2010 and our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2010. All forward-looking statements attributable to us or a person acting on our behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement.

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