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NuVoxs Private Network Delivers Secure Data Communications for Multi-Location Businesses

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NuVox's Private Network Delivers Secure Data Communications for Multi-Location
Businesses

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

ST. LOUIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 17, 2002--Businesses that have multiple
locations can benefit from having a fast, secure network that enables them to
share data applications among those sites.
NuVox Communications, a rapidly growing, facilities-based integrated
communications provider, delivers just such a service through its NuVox Private
Network(TM) offering.
Speed, security, and cost are primary factors for businesses to consider
when implementing a data network to connect their various locations. Such a
network enables a business to share data from one location to another quickly,
securely, and efficiently. A business can benefit from sharing access to
centralized software or hardware platforms rather than having to duplicate
expensive applications and servers at each location. The NuVox Private
Network(TM) service addresses these concerns by empowering business customers
with a cost-effective way to share and manage data services among locations.
NuVox Private Network's secure and fast connection for transferring data is
available within its 30 metropolitan service areas and across multiple NuVox
cities. "Our NuVox Private Network is really a hybrid data service that
features the reliability of private line service with a simplified pricing plan
that is more flexible for business customers than frame relay service," said
Rich Sikora, Executive Director of Product Marketing. NuVox Private Network
enables a more efficient method of implementing individual data applications
like e-mail, software updates, access to company servers, and shared access to
the Internet at each site.
Unlike virtual private networks (VPNs) that typically use IP protocol via
the public Internet, NuVox Private Network utilizes NuVox's own reliable and
dedicated network with frame relay protocols, affording business customers an
extra level of security. This type of service has proven extremely beneficial
to a wide range of businesses: grocery stores send daily sales information to
their main location; real estate offices share a centralized access gateway to
the Internet; manufacturing branches communicate production schedules; and
group medical offices share patient information and schedules.
Businesses utilizing NuVox Private Network also include car dealerships
with multiple locations - such as Adams Automotive Group in the Kansas City
metropolitan area. The Adams Group has found the NuVox Private Network useful
for sending information in a secure, cost effective manner. According to
president Scott Adams, his business uses a centralized server to manage the
data for five car dealerships, making the business more efficient and
productive. "We were using a point-to-point peer network," said Adams. "It just
got so very expensive. NuVox's network plan was dramatically less and, as
importantly, offered us a secure network over which to conduct our business."
In addition, businesses that need a router in their network can purchase a
turn-key router service as part of their NuVox Private Network. With this
optional service, NuVox installs, configures and maintains routers at each
customer site.
According to J. P. Gownder, an analyst with the Yankee Group's Small and
Medium Business Technologies research and consulting practice, site-to-site
data connectivity has become a critical business tool for end users. "Today,
more than half of small and medium businesses with multiple sites employ wide
area data solutions, and demand continues to grow," he said. "These business
customers seek secure, easy-to-manage, and affordable services. The NuVox
Private Network service has the opportunity to address an important need in the
marketplace."
NuVox delivers a wide range of voice, data, and Internet services designed
for today's growing businesses with the added convenience of providing all
services on one bill from one company. For more information on NuVox and
services such as NuVox Private Network, visit www.nuvox.com.

About the Yankee Group (www.yankeegroup.com)

The Yankee Group is a global leader in technology research and consulting.
Our customers, which include technology vendors and users, benefit from our
accurate, reliable, and trusted research, consulting, and personalized
one-to-one client interaction covering communications and IT products and
services. Now in our fourth decade, the company is headquartered in Boston and
maintains offices throughout North America, Europe, Latin America, and the
Pacific Rim.

About NuVox Communications

NuVox Communications is the integrated communications provider of choice,
delivering superior broadband services and customer care to business customers
in 30 markets in 13 Southeast and Midwest states. NuVox offers businesses and
other end-users advanced integrated voice, data and Internet products and
services. The Company provides dedicated and dial-up high-speed Internet
access; Web page design, development and hosting; "traditional" local and long
distance telephone services; and unified voice, e-mail, and fax messaging as
well as advanced data services. NuVox's growing product portfolio also includes
LAN and WAN management, audioconferencing and remote access. NuVox provides its
integrated voice and data services to over 15,000 on-net customers with more
than 210,000 on-net access lines in service. NuVox has raised $600 million of
equity capital for its operations and its annualized revenue run rate is in
excess of $140 million. NuVox, Inc. is privately held, and its headquarters are
located at 16090 Swingley Ridge Road, Suite 500, in Chesterfield, MO 63017. The
NuVox Communications Web site URL is www.nuvox.com.

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CONTACT: NuVox Communications
Randy McDougald, 864/331-8133, rmcdougald@nuvox.com

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