APEX Voice Communications Announces Strategic
Partnership with NEC America.

APEX customers now have access to industry-standard, high-density, fault-tolerant enhanced services and billing solutions.

SHERMAN OAKS, CA, September 14, 2003 - APEX Voice Communications, a leading supplier of enhanced services and billing solutions to telecommunications carriers, service providers and enterprises worldwide, announced that it had signed a strategic partnership agreement with NEC Solutions America to integrate NEC's fault-tolerant servers with its enhanced services and billing solutions.

"We are very pleased to have found a class of fault-tolerant servers that provide continuous availability for our customer's mission critical applications," said Elhum Vahdat, Executive Vice President of APEX Voice Communications. "NEC's high-density servers not only raise the bar in performance, but also meet both space and budget constraints, which are key to service providers around the world today."

The NEC servers will be immediately available to work with a number of APEX solutions, including the APEX Enhanced Switch, Billing System, Prepaid System and Messaging System. By providing continuous availability using industry-standard components, APEX and NEC have opened the doors to fault-tolerant enhanced services and billing solutions to small- and medium-sized carriers and service providers.