This Note has not been registered  under the Securities Act of 1933, as
         amended  (the  "Act"),  and may not be sold,  transferred,  assigned or
         otherwise  disposed of unless the person requesting the transfer of the
         Note shall  provide an opinion of counsel to  Preferred  Telecom,  Inc.
         (the  "Company")  (both counsel and opinion to be  satisfactory  to the
         Company)  to  the  effect  that  such  sale,  transfer,  assignment  or
         disposition   will  not  involve  any  violation  of  the  registration
         provisions of the Act or any similar or superseding statute.


                                 PROMISSORY NOTE


$222,154.21                                               November 1, 1996
                                                          Wichita, Kansas


         PREFERRED  TELECOM,  INC.  (herein  called  the  "Maker"),   for  value
received,  promises and agrees to pay to the order of BRITE VOICE SYSTEMS,  INC.
at 7309 East 21st Street North, Wchita,  Kansas 67206, or such other place as it
may designate,  in lawful money of the United States of America,  in immediately
available  funds,  the  sum of  Two  Hundred  Twenty-Two  Thousand  One  Hundred
Fifty-Four Dollars and 21/100 ($222,154.21),  bearing interest at the Note Rate,
payable in twelve (12) monthly installments, with the first one of such payments
being in the amount of One Hundred Thousand Dollars  ($100,000.00)  and the next
eleven of such  payments  being  equal  amounts  based upon the  amortized  loan
balance and the then  applicable  Note Rate. As used herein the term "Note Rate"
shall vary monthly on the  twenty-first  day of each month and shall be 2% above
the prime rate as listed in the Money Rates  section of the Wall Street  Journal
published  on the  twenty-first  day of each  month,  or on the next  date  such
publication is published,  if not published on the  twenty-first day of a month.
The initial Note Rate  applicable  under this  Promissory  Note shall be 10.25%.
Payment of the first installment shall be due on January 21, 1997 and subsequent
payments shall be due on the twenty-first day of each of the next 11 consecutive
months, as shown in the following schedule:


    Payment No.            Payment Date              Amount
    -----------            ------------              ------
         1                   01/21/97                      $100,000.00
         2                   02/21/97                      $ 12,162.44
         3                   03/21/97                      $ 12,162.44
         4                   04/21/97                      $ 12,162.44
         5                   05/21/97                      $ 12,162.44
         6                   06/21/97                      $ 12,162.44
         7                   07/21/97                      $ 12,162.44
         8                   08121/97                      $ 12,162.44
         9                   09/21/97                      $ 12,162.44
         10                  10/21/97                      $ 12,162.44
         11                  11/21/97                      $ 12,162.44
         12                  12/21/97                      $ 12,162.49


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         At the time of any  change in the Note  Rate,  the  amount of  payments
numbered 2 through 12, due after the date of such change,  shall be recalculated
to reflect the amortized amount necessary to fully pay off the remaining balance
due hereunder,  at the new Note Rate, in equal payments on the remaining payment
due dates.

         All payments shall be applied first to the payment of accrued  interest
and then to the payment of principal.

         In the event  default is made in any  payment  hereof,  then all of the
unpaid  indebtedness  hereunder shall, at the option of the holder,  immediately
become due and payable  and bear  interest at the rate of 18% per annum from the
date of such  default.  Failure to exercise  this option shall not  constitute a
waiver of the right to declare all of the unpaid indebtedness due and payable at
once at any subsequent time.

         Maker shall have the right to prepay any and all amounts due  hereunder
without penalty for the privilege of doing so.

         Should  there  be  a  default  in  the  payment  of  the   indebtedness
represented  by this Note or any part thereof,  and thereafter  amounts  payable
under  this  Note  should  be  collected  at  law,  in  equity,  in  bankruptcy,
receivership  or other  court  proceeding,  or should this Note be placed in the
hands of an attorney  for  collection  after  default,  the Maker  agrees to pay
reasonable  attorneys'  fees and  litigation  costs in addition to principal and
interest due and payable thereon.

         The provisions hereof shall bind and the benefits and advantages hereof
shall  inure to the parties  hereto and their  respective  successors,  assigns,
personal or legal representatives,  trustees, heirs, beneficiaries, legatees and
devisees.

     This Note shall in all respects be governed by and  construed  and enforced
in  accordance  with the  laws of the  State  of  Kansas  and  Maker  agrees  to
jurisdiction and venue in the Sedgwick County, Kansas District Court in Wichita.
Kansas and the United States District Court in Wichita. Kansas

                                    MAKER:           PREFERRED TELECOM, INC.


                                                     By

                                                     Name

                                                     Title


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