Astrolink Appoints Chuck Liggett as Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer.

Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers

BETHESDA, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 28, 2000

Astrolink International, LLC announced today that Chuck Liggett will join its senior management team as Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer.

Liggett served as the Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Pathnet Telecommunications, a pre-IPO telecommunications startup. During his tenure there, Liggett built a marketing and product development team which secured customer contracts and a back-log of over $150M in less than nine months.

Prior to joining Pathnet, Liggett spent six years at Concert/ATT and nine years at BT Tymnet/BT North America. In his most recent role at Concert, Liggett and his team defined and sponsored development of the company's global next generation voice, data and applications services portfolios and the cross-product network and systems infrastructure.

"Chuck's breadth and depth of experience in marketing, strategy development, and product development in the global telecommunications market is ideally suited to the business needs of Astrolink," said Bill Gerety, Chief Operating Officer of Astrolink.

As Chief Marketing Officer, Liggett will manage Astrolink's core marketing functions as well as play a key role in defining the strategic business plan as Astrolink prepares for service launch.

Mr. Liggett holds a BA from Dartmouth College and a MBA from New York University.

Astrolink, based in Bethesda, MD, is a wireless broadband venture scheduled to become the first global, satellite-based broadband service provider in 2003. Astrolink has commitments totaling US1.33 billion from Liberty Media, Lockheed Martin Global Telecommunications, TRW, and Telespazio, a company of Telecom Italia Group. For more information about Astrolink, visit www.astrolink.com.