Broadview Networks Inaugurates New Electronic Interface for Working With Verizon to Handle Customer Orders.

Business and Technology Editors

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 14, 2000

Broadview Networks, a network-based integrated communications provider to business and residential customers, today announced that it is the first company to use a new electronic interface with Verizon Communications to process customer orders.

The Verizon electronic interface provides the first uniform guidelines for system-to-system transactions between Verizon and competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) spanning the entire former Bell Atlantic service area - a territory that encompasses Broadview Networks' market footprint.

Broadview Networks is using the new guidelines to perform a range of functions, including those required to initiate service, add and change service features, and install and move customer lines.

"Inaugurating this unified standard is a milestone in our history of electronic integration with Verizon and Bell Atlantic," said Vern M. Kennedy, president, chief executive officer and chairman of Broadview Networks. "The day our company launched service in October 1996, we became the first carrier to establish software systems capable of automatically and electronically processing information from Bell Atlantic and incorporating that data directly into its own systems. Our company's proprietary OPENnet software systems have enabled us to forge direct electronic links with Verizon, fostering cooperation to support timely, efficient customer service and provisioning."

"We are delighted to have Broadview Networks as the first user of our LSOG 4 electronic interface for the former Bell Atlantic Region," said Virginia Ruesterholz, senior vice president - Wholesale Service for Verizon. "Broadview Networks' leadership in adopting this standard reflects the company's continuing investment in innovative technologies to enhance the way we do business together."

Broadview Networks is a network-based electronically integrated communications provider of data, Internet and voice services to small and medium-sized businesses and communications-intensive residential customers. The New York City-based company serves approximately 93,000 customer access lines in New York City, Long Island, Albany, the Buffalo-Niagara Region, Syracuse/Central New York, and Westchester and Rockland counties in New York State, as well as the Boston and Philadelphia areas.

For more information, visit the Broadview Networks website at www.broadviewnet.com.

OPENnet is a service mark of Open Support Systems, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Broadview Networks Holdings, Inc.

(c)2000 Broadview Networks, Inc.