Choice One Expands Bundled Services Portfolio by Offering Nextel Products and Services.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

ROCHESTER, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 8, 2004

Choice One Communications Inc. (OTCBB: CWON)

-- Addition of wireless services solidifies Choice One's position

as a single-source provider of voice and data

telecommunications solutions for small and medium-sized

businesses

-- First landline telecommunications provider to become a Nextel

National Authorized Representative (NAR)

Choice One Communications (OTCBB: CWON), an Integrated Communications Provider offering facilities-based voice and data telecommunications services, including Internet solutions, to clients in 29 Northeast and Midwest markets, today announced that it is authorized to sell digital wireless products and services for Nextel Communications, Inc. (NSDQ: NXTL).

"Our clients have said they want access to a full range of landline and wireless telecommunications services through one point of contact," stated Kevin Stephens, senior vice president of marketing. "As an authorized representative for Nextel, Choice One can respond to the growing demand for wireless service among the small and medium-sized business segment we serve. Nextel's high quality service and the unique functionality of their Direct Connect(R) digital walkie-talkie service complements Choice One's existing bundle of high quality, competitively priced voice and data services to create a total telecommunications solution for this under-served client segment."

"Our introduction of Select Savings.free last year was an important step toward convergence of voice and data telecommunications," added Mr. Stephens. "The addition of wireless services to our portfolio, enabled by our new relationship with Nextel, puts us one step closer to the ultimate integration of landline and wireless telecommunications and positions Choice One to be the local telecommunications provider of choice in the markets we serve."

Effective immediately, Choice One is offering wireless service in Pennsylvania and Ohio with plans to expand into additional states later this year.

About Choice One Communications

Headquartered in Rochester, New York, Choice One Communications Inc. (OTCBB: CWON) is a leading Integrated Communications Provider offering voice and data services including Internet solutions, to businesses in 29 metropolitan areas (markets) across 12 Northeast and Midwest states. Choice One reported $323 million of revenue in 2003, has more than 100,000 clients and employs approximately 1,400 colleagues.

Choice One's markets include: Hartford and New Haven, Connecticut; Rockford, Illinois; Bloomington/Evansville, Fort Wayne, Indianapolis, South Bend/Elkhart, Indiana; Springfield and Worcester, Massachusetts; Portland/Augusta, Maine; Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo, Michigan; Manchester/Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Albany (including Kingston, Newburgh, Plattsburgh and Poughkeepsie), Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse (including Binghamton, Elmira and Watertown), New York; Akron (including Youngstown), Columbus and Dayton, Ohio; Allentown, Erie, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh and Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, Pennsylvania; Providence, Rhode Island; Green Bay (including Appleton and Oshkosh), Madison and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

The company has intra-city fiber networks in the following markets: Hartford, Connecticut; Rockford, Illinois; Bloomington/Evansville, Fort Wayne, Indianapolis, South Bend/Elkhart, Indiana; Springfield, Massachusetts; Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo, Michigan; Albany, Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse, New York; Columbus, Ohio; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Providence, Rhode Island; Green Bay, Madison and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

For further information about Choice One, visit our web site at www.choiceonecom.com or contact us at 1-888-832-5800.

Forward-Looking Statements

Certain statements contained in this press release constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, and the company intends such forward-looking statements be subject to the safe harbors created thereby. The words "believe", "believes", "expects", "estimates", "anticipates", "will", "will be", "could", "may" and "plans" and the negative or other similar words or expressions identify forward-looking statements made by or on behalf of Choice One Communications Inc. ("the company"). These forward-looking statements are subject to many uncertainties and factors that may cause the actual results of the company to be materially different from any future results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Examples of such uncertainties and factors include, but are not limited to, continued compliance with covenants for borrowing under our bank credit facility, availability of financing, availability of significant operating cash flows, continued availability of regulatory approvals, the number of potential customers and average revenue for such customers in a market, the existence of strategic alliances or relationships, technological, regulatory or other developments in the company's business, changes in the competitive climate in which the company operates and the emergence of future opportunities, all of which could cause actual results and experiences to vary significantly from the company's current business plan and to differ materially from anticipated results and expectations expressed in the forward-looking statements contained herein. These and other applicable risks are summarized under the caption "Risk Factors" and elsewhere in the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2003, Registration No. 000-29279, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 30, 2004.