Zoom® Announces Distribution Agreement with MicroAge®
Fortune 500 Company Added to Zoom's Distribution Team

Boston, MA, February 12, 1997 - Zoom Telephonics, a leading manufacturer of computer communications equipment, recently signed a distribution agreement with MicroAge, a leading distributor of microcomputer-based information technology products and services. In addition to Zoom's broad line of faxmodems, MicroAge will distribute Zoom's new, higher-end Zoom Business Products line targeted to Value Added Resellers (VARs).

"We are pleased to announce this mutually beneficial agreement," said Terry Manning, Zoom's Vice President of Sales and Marketing. "MicroAge is an important new addition to Zoom's distribution team. MicroAge has a strong customer base of value added resellers (VARs). MicroAge and its VAR customers are very important to Zoom as we introduce Wide Area Networking products like remote access servers, ISDN, and PCMCIA faxmodems with LAN connectivity."

"MicroAge is delighted to be a Zoom distributor," said MicroAge Senior Vice President of Strategic Alliances Warren Mills. "Because MicroAgeis both a full-line distributor and a global systems integrator, the relationship brings added value to our mutual corporate and reseller customers."

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 distributed worldwide. Zoom Telephonics is publicly traded on NASDAQ (NASDAQ: ZOOM). The Zoom Web Site is www.zoomtel.com.

MicroAge, Inc., a Fortune 500 company, is a global technology services company providing distributed computing solutions and ISO 9001-certified multivendor integration services to large organizations and computer resellers worldwide. The company serves corporate America and government agencies through its MicroAge Infosystems Services network of branches and alliance partners spanning 29 countries, and offers computer resellers over 20,000 products from more than 500 suppliers backed by a suite of technical, financial, distribution and account management services. ECadvantage, MicroAge's new electronic commerce architecture, is utilizing the Internet to streamline the delivery of services to its customers. Headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, the company's annual revenues exceed $3.5 billion. Information about MicroAge is available on the World Wide Web at www.microage.com