Startec Activates Global IP Network - Startec Global Communications Corporation - Company Business and Marketing

Cambridge Telcom Report, March 20, 2000

Startec Global Communications Corporation (Nasdaq: STGC), an integrated communications company providing voice, data and Internet services to the emerging economies, Friday announced that it has completed the activation of its Internet Protocol ("IP") network, providing it with extensive connectivity into the emerging economies.'

In 1999, Startec embarked upon an aggressive expansion of its IP network with the goal of deploying 30 IP gateways by year end. Startec surpassed that goal by deploying 50 IP gateways with access to 20 countries. Startec had anticipated that it would begin activating its IP network by the end of the first quarter 2000. With Friday's announcement, Startec has also achieved that goal. Startec can now transmit voice over IP ("VoIP") to ten countries and expects to turn up VoIP to ten additional countries in the near future.

Startec's IP network supports multiple platforms, including Clarent and Cisco, and broadly accesses the emerging economies in the Asia Pacific Rim, the Middle East, Africa and Central Europe. Startec has deployed command centers utilizing SS7 signaling in Los Angeles, Miami and New York and routes traffic between the command centers on an ATM backbone.

Startec's Global Network Monitoring Center ("GNMC") has full visibility to the IP network and monitors quality 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The network is capable of carrying data and voice on either a managed network or the public Internet and utilizes HP Open View as the primary tool for monitoring all gateways and routers.

"Startec is taking advantage of the convergence of voice and data traffic by establishing a world-class IP network. We can now offer our customers toll quality voice service, as well as high speed transmission of data and Internet traffic," said Ram Mukunda, founder and chief executive officer of Startec. "The IP network improves our margins and expands the range of services we offer, thereby increasing and diversifying our revenue sources. "We expect to transmit approximately four million minutes in March and steadily increase the level of IP traffic as we activate the remaining gateways and expand the amount of available capacity on the network."

"Startec Global Communications Corporation is an integrated communications provider of voice, data and Internet services. Startec is building a state-of-the-art network, equipped with Internet Protocol technology, allowing it to integrate voice, data, Internet, and video services on a single network to the emerging economies. Startec's network now consists of eight domestic and international switches, 50 IP gateways, 20 Points of Presence, 50 international termination agreements and ownership interests on 15 undersea fiber optic cables. Startec also features four ethnic Web communities, which can be accessed at www.estart.com . The Company's class of common stock is traded on The Nasdaq National Market under the symbol "STGC."