PRIMUS Canada partners with Glentel
to distribute TalkBroadband®

Toronto, Canada (July 12, 2006) - PRIMUS Telecommunications Canada Inc. (PRIMUS Canada) and Glentel Inc. announced today that PRIMUS’s TalkBroadband® home phone service, Canada's first Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone service, is now available in Glentel’s retail mall locations across Canada. 

Consumers can subscribe to PRIMUS Canada’s TalkBroadband phone service by visiting Glentel’s WirelessWave, The Telephone Booth, or La Cabine Téléphonique locations. Consumers can purchase PRIMUS Canada’s start-up kit for only $19.95 which includes the first three months of service free, with no installation fee and no mandatory purchase of the VoIP gateway hardware. The offer also includes a wide selection of features such as voice mail, Call Waiting, Call Display, 5-Way Calling and Caller ID Block. Customers who choose to purchase the gateway will save $4 per month off their monthly bill following the three-month trial period. 

“PRIMUS Canada is dedicated to providing Canadians with leading-edge services, features, and greater savings for home phone services,” said Rob Warden, Vice President, Marketing, Residential Services, PRIMUS Canada. “Teaming up with Glentel, a trusted communications supplier, makes our TalkBroadband Home Phone service available to more Canadians searching for quality, value, enhanced features and an alternative to traditional phone service.”

TalkBroadband service is a leading-edge technology that transforms High Speed Internet Service into a local telephone connection simply and securely. The Internet-based phone service results in significant savings of up to 65 per cent on home phone bills. Customers can choose their own area codes, make free worldwide calls to other TalkBroadband lines, and service can be accessed anywhere there is a High Speed Internet connection.

TalkBroadband subscribers can also receive access to a web portal that allows them to manage calls and service features online, at no extra cost. To name just a few of the options, subscribers can view all call information online, access voicemail online, and set up voicemail notification to e-mail.

About Glentel (TSX: GLN)
Glentel Inc. is an international wireless solutions provider operating more than 160 corporate locations in Canada through its retail and business divisions. Its business division provides integrated wireless solutions for business, industry, and government. Its retail division, doing business as WirelessWave, The Telephone Booth, and La Cabine Téléphonique, provides personal voice and data communications products and services in major retail malls in British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario and Québec. TSX Stock Symbol: GLN. Further company information is available at the company’s website www.glentel.com.

                                                                                                                            
About PRIMUS Canada
PRIMUS Telecommunications Canada Inc. is the largest alternative communications carrier in Canada, with over 1,000,000 customers. The Company offers facilities-based voice, data, e-commerce, Web hosting, VOIP and Internet services utilizing ADSL2+ technology. As a leading Internet service provider in Canada, PRIMUS Canada has over 80,000 Internet subscribers served by a national network of Internet points-of-presence (POPs) for dedicated and dial-up access. PRIMUS Canada also offers local services to businesses, bundling them with its long distance and Internet services. The Company has a fully redundant and diverse SONET network across Canada, extending from Quebec City to Victoria. PRIMUS Canada's national network consists of nationwide switches with international connectivity through its parent company's global network, ATM and IP nodes, and colocation facilities at major cities across the country. These network elements provide an integrated and converged backbone for all of PRIMUS Canada's voice, data, VOIP, Internet private line and bundled services. The local colocation network covers over three million households and businesses in Canada utilizing next generation ADSL2+ technology, delivering download speeds of up to 22 Mbps. PRIMUS Canada is a wholly-owned subsidiary of McLean, Virginia-based PRIMUS Telecommunications Group, Incorporated (Nasdaq: PRTL). PRIMUS Canada news and information are available at the Company's Web site at www.primustel.ca.

For more information, please contact:

Dave Hartman
Vice President, Retail Division
Glentel Inc.    
604-415-6500

Rob Warden                                       Andrea Ellison/Jennifer Alsop-Lee
PRIMUS Canada                                  Media Profile
416-207-7064                                     (416) 504-8464
rwarden@PRIMUStel.ca                      andrea@mediaprofile.com 
                                                           jennifer@mediaprofile.com