Mr. Mark Roberts

Mark Roberts, the founder of Achieve Networks was central to facilitating the three-way agreement."This is only the beginning," states Mr. Roberts.

Mark Roberts, the founder of Achieve Networks was central to facilitating the three-way agreement."This is only the beginning," states Mr. Roberts."The value created by the combined resource of these three companies is tremendous for the collective customers and shareholders as well as a telecommunications industry gravely in need of smart, creative, partnerships to overcome the prevailing capacity glut.Stay tuned for more to come."Additional information is available at http://www.ipvoice.com/ or http://www.vergetech.com/ and at http://www.integriss.com/ .

In this press release references to IPVoice Communications and VergeTech Inc. are used interchangeably as a result of the April 2nd announcement regarding the merger of the two companies.This press release contains statements (such as projections regarding future performance) that are forward-looking statements as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

"As a competitive long distance provider, we needed an IDC that could meet the rigorous demand for uninterruptible service our customers require," said Mark Roberts, president and CEO for Achieve Networks."Inflow's technical staff has allowed us to concentrate on running our business and leave our day to day support to the local experts."

XXI Technologies needed a data center that could house its servers used to develop products and services for the travel industry, human resource management and marketing services.

"Our selection of the NetCentrex platform has enabled us to rapidly launch our new service and offers us a powerful platform for our future plans," stated Mark Roberts, CEO of Achieve Networks.

Pipeline has the strong customer support , billing , and IT department that is necessary to successfully deploy the VoIP product , stated Mark Roberts , CEO and founder of Achieve.

Pipeline and Achieve have reached an agreement in principle to combine their businesses through the exchange of common stock of Pipeline for the common stock of Achieve.The agreement outlines the terms under which Pipeline would acquire up to 100% of Achieve's stock , but no less than 81%.

Completion of the acquisition is subject to a number of contingencies , including execution of a definitive agreement , continuing due diligence , approval of each company's Board of Directors and the consent of achieve's shareholders.Pipeline and Achieve hope to prepare and sign a Definitive Agreement no later than September 7 , 2001.