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[Michelle Pollak <>]

PAETEC COMMUNICATIONS BECOMES INTERNET2 CORPORATE MEMBER

Fairport, NY, July 28, 2003 -- PAETEC Communications, Inc., an integrated 
communications provider, today announced that it has become a corporate 
member of Internet2(R).  Internet2 is a consortium led by over 200 
universities working in partnership with industry and government leaders to 
develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies, in order 
to help accelerate Internet development.

Internet2's primary objectives include: creating a leading edge network 
capability for the national research community; enabling revolutionary 
Internet applications; and ensuring the rapid transfer of new network 
services and applications to the broader Internet community.

According to Rick Cunningham, PAETEC's vice president of strategic markets, 
"We look forward to the role PAETEC can play in assisting Internet2 in 
achieving its strategic objectives.  We believe that Internet2 plays a 
critical role in furthering the educational opportunities, research and 
network applications needs of the next generation of the Internet, and we 
are excited and proud to be part of the process.  The first pilot program, 
an initiative to develop VoIP technology as a disaster recovery 
alternative, is very promising."

Georgetown University has partnered with BroadSoft and PAETEC to test and 
demonstrate the provisioning of an emergency IP voice service in the event 
conventional communications on the university's campus become inoperable or 
congested.  This system is SIP-based and the system design provides inbound 
and outbound disaster recovery voice service in the event of CO, node, or 
gateway failures.

"Internet2 is excited about PAETEC's membership and involvement," says Ben 
Teitelbaum, program manager for Internet2's voice and integrated 
communications initiatives. "As we look at voice survivability 
architectures that combined the best properties of Internet telephony with 
those of the circuit-switched voice network, it is invaluable to have 
PAETEC at the table.  Their high-level of engineering professionalism and 
experience as a leading provider of voice services to higher education, 
provides a unique perspective."

About PATEC Communications
Based in Fairport, NY, PAETEC Communications, Inc. is an integrated 
communications provider offering broadband services, including advanced 
voice and video, enhanced data, and communications management services to 
medium-sized and large businesses, colleges and universities, hospitals, 
hotels, governmental organizations and affinity groups. PAETEC serves 
customers in 27 markets, including: Albany, Baltimore, Boston, Buffalo, 
Chicago, Connecticut, Fort Lauderdale, Long Island, Los Angeles, Miami, New 
Hampshire, New Jersey, New York City, Orlando, Orange County, Philadelphia, 
Pittsburgh, Rhode Island, Rochester, San Diego, Northern Virginia, 
Syracuse, Washington DC, and Western Massachusetts. PAETEC currently has 
over 975 employees.  For further information, please visit the PAETEC 
website at http://www.paetec.com.

About Internet2(R)
Led by more than 200 U.S. universities, working with industry and 
government, Internet2 is developing and deploying advanced network 
applications and technologies for research and higher education, 
accelerating the creation of tomorrow's Internet.  Internet2 recreates the 
partnerships among academia, industry and government that helped foster 
today's Internet in its infancy.  For more information, visit: 
www.internet2.edu.

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Contacts:       Rick Cunningham, vice president, strategic markets, PAETEC 
Communications, Inc., 734-975-8020
                Michelle Pollak, media relations manager, Internet2, 
202-331-5345


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