24-Time World Champion New York Yankees Tap Teligent as Hot New Recruit for Telecom Service.

VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 7, 1999--The New York Yankees, the team with the best winning record in baseball history and 24 World Championship titles, today named Teligent, an integrated communications company, as the baseball organization's official communications service provider.

"We are honored that an organization known for superior performance - from its players, to its coaching staff, to its front office selected Teligent's digital SmartWave(tm) service over all the other competitive offerings," said Richard J. Hanna, President of Teligent Field Operations.

"The Yankee organization is the country's most famous mid-sized business. Like many other small and medium-sized businesses, the Yankees are looking for flexible, broadband communications services that can help their company operate more effectively and at the same time, reduce the costs of their operation. That is what Teligent can provide," Hanna added.

"We are looking forward to Teligent's ability to deliver added value services at substantial savings. We were attracted to Teligent's pricing, performance-based business philosophy and especially their understanding of how we can use telecommunications to benefit our marketing efforts," said The Yankees' Joseph M. Perello, Vice President, Business Development.

As part of its agreement with the New York Yankees, Teligent has agreed to sponsor signage in left field at Yankee Stadium. The company also will be featured in a special section on the Yankees website (www.yankees.com).

Teligent's local communications networks represent the marriage of the latest advances in point-to-multipoint microwave technology with proven high-frequency radio transmission equipment and other traditional technologies, including broadband wireline.

The integration of these technologies enables Teligent to increase its local network efficiency and significantly lower network costs.

With its SmartWave(tm) technology, Teligent delivers service by installing small antennas on the roofs of customer buildings. When a customer picks up a telephone, turns on a computer or activates a videoconference, the signal travels over inside wiring to the rooftop antenna. The customer building antenna then relays the voice, data or video signals to a Teligent base station antenna.

The base station antenna gathers signals from a cluster of surrounding customer buildings, aggregates the signals and then routes them to a Teligent broadband switching center.

At the switching center, Teligent uses ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) switches and data routers along with Nortel DMS switches to hand off the traffic to other networks - the public circuit-switched voice network, the packet-switched Internet, and private data networks.

Based in Vienna, Va., Teligent, Inc. (NASDAQ:TGNT) is a full-service, integrated communications company that is offering small and medium-sized business customers local, long distance, high-speed data and dedicated Internet services over its digital SmartWave(tm) local networks in 26 major markets.

Eventually, Teligent will expand service to 74 major metropolitan areas throughout the United States. Teligent's offerings of regulated services are subject to tariff approval.

For more information, visit the Teligent website at: www.teligent.com

Except for any historical information, the matters discussed in this press release contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to economic, key employee, competitive, governmental, regulatory and technological factors affecting the company's growth, operations, markets, products, services, licenses and other factors discussed in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Actual results may vary materially due to these and other risks and uncertainties.