Frontier Communications Doubled Number of Competitive Local Access Lines in 1998

Business Wire, Jan 12, 1999

ROCHESTER, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 12, 1999--Over the last year, Frontier Communications has successfully deployed its local telephone service nationwide, doubling the number of local access lines it serves as a competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) to 200,000. Using a strategy that combines reselling local service from the Regional Bell companies and installing its own local switching equipment, Frontier has amassed one of the largest service footprints in the industry, offering integrated local, long distance and data services to approximately 70 percent of the U.S. business population.

"Frontier's approach with its CLEC deployment strategy clearly leverages the company's existing core strengths. First, it quickly achieved national coverage through its resale initiative, capitalizing on its experience in provisioning local service and the backroom capabilities of its established local service operations," said Gail Jones, a senior telecommunications analyst at The Yankee Group. "Now, by transitioning over to its own facilities in major markets, Frontier is able to offer its customers a wider product portfolio along with the speed, reliability and bandwidth of its optical network."

Frontier resells local service in 32 states and the District of Columbia. Having established itself as a reseller from coast to coast, Frontier is now focusing its efforts on expanding its facilities-based operations, providing data, local and long distance services over the state-of-the-art Frontier Optronics Network(SM). Frontier currently offers integrated local/data/long distance service, using its own facilities, in 13 major metropolitan markets across the country. By the end of the first quarter 1999, it expects to nearly double that number, offering integrated communications solutions on its own facilities to customers in a total of 25 top U.S. markets.

"The ability to offer local service nationwide has been a huge selling point for Frontier," said Bill Hammond, Frontier's vice president of product management for local services. "Because of our nearly universal coverage, customers can save time and money by getting all of their communications services -- for all of their locations -- from one provider, billed on one invoice."

Frontier Communications, a unit of Frontier Corporation (NYSE:FRO), is one of the leading providers of integrated communications services -- including Internet, IP and data applications, long distance, local telephone and wireless -- to business customers nationwide. The self-healing Frontier Optronics NetworkSM provides customers with faster transmission speeds, greater bandwidth capacity and unrivaled reliability. For more information and a map of Frontier's CLEC presence, visit the Frontier web site at www.frontiercorp.com. -0-

     Frontier offers local service as a reseller virtually statewide
in:

Arizona
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Florida
Georgia
Illinois
Indiana
Kansas
Kentucky
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
Nevada
North Carolina
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
Washington
Wisconsin
as well as throughout the District of Columbia

     Frontier resells the services of the following Regional Bell
Operating Companies:

Ameritech
Bell Atlantic
BellSouth
SBC
U S  WEST

     Frontier is a facilities-based provider of local service in the
following markets:

Atlanta
Boston
Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
Denver
Fort Worth
Kansas City
Minneapolis
New York
Portland
Seattle
St. Louis

     Frontier expects to add the following cities to it
facilities-based footprint in 1Q99:

Detroit
Houston
Los Angeles
Milwaukee
Oakland
Orange County, CA
Philadelphia
Sacramento
San Diego
San Francisco
San Jose
Washington, D.C.

You can receive a faxed copy of any Frontier Corporation press release dating back to January 1998, free of charge, 24 hours a day by calling 1-800-448-8533. An automated system will provide you with instructions.