Global Crossing Telecommunications Announces Zoned Frame Enhancement to Regional Frame Relay Service at Discounted Prices - Company Business and Marketing

Cambridge Telcom Report, March 13, 2000

Global Crossing Telecommunications, Inc., a subsidiary of Global Crossing Ltd. (Nasdaq: GBLX), the world's first independent provider of global telecommunications services and facilities, Monday launched Zoned Frame, a product enhancement to its Frame Relay Service. Zoned Frame offers companies with three or more locations in the same LATA attractively priced frame relay connections at up to seventy percent off the price for existing frame relay services.

Global Crossing's Frame Relay Service provides unparalleled domestic and international broadband connectivity using its state-of-the-art, fiber-optic network. Zoned Frame is designed to provide a low-cost solution to customers in 23 major market areas nationwide. The frame relay network itself is flexible and fully scalable, able to meet growing customer needs and various speeds.

"Zoned Frame offers customers the benefits of lower prices and flexibility to expand their network as their needs grow," said David Pugliese, vice president of marketing. "We designed Zoned Frame for customers to link clusters of three or more locations within a LATA cost-effectively to Global Crossing's fast, reliable data network, ultimately making service more manageable and scalable. Business customers get the same speed and flexibility of frame relay at a fraction of the cost for national service."

Zoned Frame is currently available in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Dallas, Houston, Cleveland, Toledo, Buffalo, Rochester, Newark, Delaware Valley, Springfield, Sacramento, San Diego, Bakersfield, Monterey, and St. Luis Obispo. It will be available in the District of Columbia and other major metropolitan areas of Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Utah, Washington, and Wisconsin in April.

"This value added service, available to the financial service community, represents another move by Global Crossing to provide a more comprehensive suite of offerings tailored to that sector," said Pugliese. "Global Crossing recently announced a definitive agreement to purchase IXnet (Nasdaq:EXNT) and IPC (Amex: IPI), companies that provide a global extranet as well as trading systems for the financial services community."

Global Crossing Telecommunications will demonstrate its Zoned Frame product at its Booth No. 112 at the Independent Community Bankers of America Convention and Techworld in San Antonio this week.

Global Crossing Telecommunications, Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Global Crossing Ltd. (Nasdaq: GBLX) and one of the leading providers of integrated communications solutions -- including Internet, IP and data applications, long distance, local telephone and conferencing -- to business customers. Global Crossing Telecommunications utilizes the Global Crossing Ltd. global fiber optic network with 97,200 announced route miles, serving five continents, 24 countries and more than 200 major cities. The Global Crossing Network and its telecommunications and Internet product offerings will be available to over 80% of the world's international communications traffic. Global Crossing Telecommunications has 50 offices in 26 states with principal offices in Rochester, New York. FMI: www.globalcrossing.com on the Web.