10/2/00
XO Launches Service in Portland, Oregon
XO Communications Launches Commercial Broadband Communications Services in Portland
PORTLAND, OR - XO Communications. (Nasdaq:XOXO), one of the world’s fastest growing providers of broadband communications services, announced that it began offering local businesses broadband communications services in the greater Portland metropolitan area on September 29, 2000. With the launch of services in Portland, as well as the concurrent launch of services today in Austin, XO now serves 53 markets.
XO provides small and medium-sized businesses a wide range of broadband communications services including local and long distance voice, Internet access, e-mail, and Web hosting/e-commerce capabilities. The Company also provides services for larger enterprises such as virtual private networks (VPN’s), global transit and application infrastructure services for delivering applications over the Internet or a VPN.
“Businesses are calling out for a simple, reliable means to address their communications needs,” said XO Vice President and General Manager for Portland, Neil Grubb. “We plan to bring Portland-area businesses a single source of accountability, that will allow them to focus on what’s important…their business.”
Last week, XO introduced XOptions™, a set of revolutionary flat rate service combinations in the United States for small and medium-sized businesses. The Company also announced that the XO Communications name would replace the NEXTLINK and Concentric brands in the marketplace and would be supported in the U.S. by an extensive fall advertising campaign. Additionally, XO said it would begin offering Gigabit Ethernet services throughout the United States by mid-2001, and that XO would be the preferred provider of Ethernet services to Internet giant Yahoo!
“The network investment that XO has made in Portland provides us with a large footprint in which we can provide service,“ said Michael S. Ruley, President of XO’s Western Region. “We are building a full-service, integrated broadband communications company, and we look forward to introducing Portland to the future of telecommunications that we are creating.”
XO is constructing an extensive underground fiber optic network serving Portland and the surrounding metropolitan areas. Within the next 12 months, the locally operated network will be connected to more than 60 other XO local networks in the United States via XO’s 16,000-mile, IP-centric long-haul fiber network. Portland will also begin deploying services from its high-capacity broadband wireless assets by the end of this year to bring added diversity, bandwidth and reliability to customers.
About XO Communications
XO Communications is one of the world’s leading providers of broadband communications services offering local and long distance voice communication services, Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) access, Web hosting and e-commerce service, Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), dedicated access, global transit and application infrastructure services for delivering applications over the Internet or a VPN.
XO has assembled an unrivaled set of facilities-based broadband networks and Tier One Internet peering relationships that, when complete, will serve much of the United States, Canada and Europe. In the United States, XO has more than 430,000 metro fiber miles in operation and a 384,000 fiber-mile inter-city network under construction. The Company is also North America’s largest holder of fixed broadband wireless spectrum, with licenses covering 95 percent of the population of the 30 largest U.S. cities and a partnership with licenses covering all of the top cities in Canada. XO has also agreed in principle to acquire more than 80,000 metro fiber miles in Europe to serve the London, Frankfurt, Brussels, Amsterdam and Paris markets and an 88,000 fiber-mile pan-European fiber network connecting 21 major European cities and transatlantic capacity that will eventually expand to 10 Gbps. For more information about XO, visit www.xo.com.
XO Communications, Portland Market:
Phone: 503-277-1400
Fax: 503-277-1590
Address: 9000 SW Nimbus, Beaverton, OR 97008
For more information contact:
Paula Frisina / XO™ Communications
Local Media
602-324-6232 / 303-539-7754
Emily White / XO™ Communications
Local Media
503-277-1440
Lisa Miles / XO™ Communications
Financial Analysts
703-547-2440
