ATSI Attending Key Global Conference


SAN ANTONIO, TX--(Marketwire - May 29, 2008) - ATSI Communications, Inc. (ATSI) (OTCBB: ATSX) announced today that the Company's wholly owned subsidiary Digerati Networks, Inc. is attending the International Telecoms Week (ITW) 2008 global conference to be held at the Hilton Washington in Washington, D.C. on June 2 through June 4, 2008.

ITW 2008 has been established to provide an alternative meeting for telecom carriers and service providers globally. Created by carriers for carriers, ITW 2008 is the global place to meet and conduct business for both the voice and data markets. ITW 2008 will attract 1000s of participants from all over the world to form bilateral deals and develop new relationships.

ITW 2008 brings to the market a new cost effective and efficient meeting environment that allows Companies to get business done -- taking place in over 100,000 square feet of meeting space with bilateral tables, private meeting suites and function rooms available to all participants.

ITW 2008 is organized by TelCap Ltd, publishers of Capacity magazine and is founded by AT&T Wholesale, Belgacom, BT, Capacity magazine, China Telecom, Chunghwa Telecom, Deutsche Telekom ICSS, iBasis, IDT Telecom, Orange, PLDT, Reach, Rostelecom, Singtel, Sprint, Tata Communications, Telecom Italia Sparkle, Telefonica, TeliaSonera International Carrier, Telekom Austria, Telekom Malaysia and Telecom New Zealand.

ATSI Communications, Inc. operates through its two wholly owned subsidiaries, Digerati Networks, Inc. and Telefamilia Communications, Inc. Digerati Networks, Inc. is a premier global VoIP carrier serving rapidly expanding markets in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America, with an emphasis on Mexico. Through Digerati's partnerships with established foreign carriers and network operators, interconnection and service agreements, and a NextPoint powered VoIP network, ATSI believes it has clear advantages over its competition. Telefamilia Communications provides specialized retail communication services that include VoIP services to the high-growth Hispanic market in the United States. ATSI also owns a minority interest of a subsidiary in Mexico, ATSI Comunicaciones, S.A. de C.V., which operates under a 30-year government issued telecommunications license.

The information in this news release includes certain forward-looking statements that are based upon management's expectations and assumptions about certain risks and uncertainties that can affect future events. Although management believes these assumptions and expectations to be reasonable on the date of this news release, these risks and uncertainties may cause actual events to differ material from managements those contained in this news release. The risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, continuing as a going concern, availability and cost of our present vendors and suppliers, and absence of any change in government regulations or other costs associated with data transmission over the Internet or termination of transmissions in foreign countries.

Contact Information: Contact: Jack Eversull The Eversull Group 972-378-7917 972-378-7981 (fax) E-mail: Web Site: www.atsi.net