Centennial Announces New Director.

Business/High Tech Editors

WALL, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 8, 2002

Centennial Communications Corp. (Nasdaq:CYCL) ("Centennial") announced today that Mark T. Gallogly, a Senior Managing Director of the Blackstone Group, has resigned from the Centennial board of directors.

Lawrence H. Guffey has been named to serve the remainder of Mr. Gallogly's term. Mr. Guffey previously served as a Centennial director from January 1999 to March 2001. He is a Senior Managing Director of the Blackstone Group, L.P., with which he has been associated since 1991.

"On behalf of our management team, I would like to thank Mark for his many contributions to Centennial," said Michael J. Small, Chief Executive Officer. "I am delighted to welcome Larry back to the Centennial board."

Centennial is one of the largest independent wireless telecommunications service providers in the United States and the Caribbean with approximately 17.1 million Net Pops and approximately 883,800 wireless subscribers. Centennial's U.S. operations have approximately 6.0 million Net Pops in small cities and rural areas. Centennial's Caribbean integrated communications operation owns and operates wireless licenses for approximately 11.1 million Net Pops in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and provides voice, data, video and Internet services on broadband networks in the region. Welsh, Carson Anderson & Stowe and an affiliate of the Blackstone Group are controlling shareholders of Centennial. For more information regarding Centennial, please visit our websites at www.centennialcom.com and www.centennialpr.net.