Global Crossing Offers Carriers Integrated T-1 Service.

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ROCHESTER, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 21, 2000

Packages long distance, 1+ and toll-free services

with dedicated Internet access 

Provides resellers with a solution to play

in the high-growth Internet Protocol (IP) market

Global Crossing, which is building and offering services over the world's first global fiber optic network, today announced that its Carrier Services Division has begun offering Integrated T-1 service designed especially for its wholesale customers. The service will initially package voice (long distance, 1+ and toll-free services) and dedicated Internet access across the same T-1 dedicated access circuit.

Global Crossing is offering this service in response to demand from switchless resellers, carriers and competitive local exchange carriers looking to enhance their existing product lines and expand their geographic service footprint. With Integrated T-1, wholesale customers will realize a number of benefits:

- Provides a data service offering for their end-users

- Aggregates services allowing end-users to meet volume

commitments

- Fully utilizes T-1 facilities by combining voice and data

- Minimizes customer churn by securing services on a dedicated

facility

- Reduces pricing from dedicated versus switched access

"In the past year we've seen a rapid acceleration in the convergence of voice and data, driven primarily by the extraordinary demand for IP services. IP revenues are expected to increase at a compound annual growth rate of more than 100 percent over the next four years, so Integrated T-1 provides our resellers with a solution to participate in this high-growth, high-profit market," said Tony Palma, vice president, Carrier marketing.

"Global Crossing's integrated T-1 product fits our target market of small to medium-sized businesses perfectly," says Gene E. "Skip" Lane, president and chief executive officer of Network One, an Atlanta-based integrated communications provider and one of Global Crossing's premier Integrated T-1 customers. "It's a robust product that's priced competitively and very much needed in a wholesale marketplace with few nationwide integrated T-1 alternatives."

Global Crossing is establishing itself as an end-to-end provider by combining its recently launched local loop service with its Integrated T-1. Customers receive flat-rate, mileage-based pricing for their local loop services. They also receive access to uCommand, Global Crossing's Web-based service portal, which allows for online, real-time account management. Carriers can look forward to the progression of Global Crossing's Integrated T-1 product as additional services are introduced throughout the year.

About Global Crossing:

Global Crossing Ltd. (NASDAQ: GBLX) is building, and offering services over, the world's first global fiber optic network with 97,200 announced route miles, serving five continents, 24 countries and more than 200 major cities. The Global Crossing Network and its telecommunications and Internet product offerings will be available to more than 80% of the world's international communications traffic. Global Crossing hosts more than 300 of the top Internet brands at its Web hosting division, GlobalCenter. Among the brands are some of the largest and most densely trafficked sites on the Web, including Yahoo!, The Motley Fool, Ziff Davis, MP3.com and eToys. Global Crossing's operations are headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda, with principal offices in Los Angeles, California; London, England; Morristown, New Jersey; and Rochester, New York.

Statements made in this press release that state the Company's or management's intentions, beliefs, expectations, or predictions for the future are forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks, assumptions and uncertainties that could cause the Company's actual results to differ materially from those projected in such forward-looking statements. These risks, assumptions and uncertainties include: the ability to complete systems within currently estimated time frames and budgets; the ability to compete effectively in a rapidly evolving and price competitive marketplace; changes in the nature of telecommunications regulation in the United States and other countries; changes in business strategy, the successful integration of newly-acquired businesses; the impact of technological change; and other risks referenced from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.