For release Friday August 10, 2001 11 AM EDT

Bandwidth Market, Ltd., a leading telecommunications services broker, has now released to the public its huge collection of telecommunication resources and information. Company officials claim BandwidthMarket.com is now the biggest and the best telecommunications web site in the world. Bandwidth Market helps companies buy and sell private lines, Internet Access, Co-location services, dark optical fiber, and long distance minutes. Bandwidth Market has hundreds of thousands of products listed in 500 U.S. cities and 40 countries—the most telecom listings on the Internet.

In the past three weeks, Bandwidth Market has expanded its web site’s content more than ten times. "We measured the AT&T web site with 300 megabytes of information," said Howard Holme, President of Bandwidth Market, Ltd. from Denver, Colorado. "Our site now makes publicly available more than 100 times as much information. Without any charge, users can search Bandwidth Market to find Securities and Exchange Commission filings of more than 500 telecom companies, over 80,000 patents, hundreds of telecommunications and antitrust court cases, white papers, speeches, articles, presentations, and links to thousands of telecom related companies and resources. We are also using excellent search engines that make finding specific information much easier."

Leah Pearlman, company spokesperson said, "Our goal was to consolidate the public telecom related information on the Internet on one fast and easy-to-use website. One major source of information is government information, from 50 foreign countries, several federal government agencies, 50 states, and many cities." Andrew Carter of Bandwidth Market added, "The Securities and Exchange Commission, the US Patent Office, and the FTC Antitrust Bureau of Competition have excellent information, but only fairly good search engines. We combine these separate sources of federal government information, and have detailed indexes built by our excellent search engine."

Google ranks Bandwidth Market 15th among US Communications Providers in its PageRank order. As Google explains, "Important, high-quality sites receive a higher PageRank, which Google remembers each time it conducts a search. Of course, important pages mean nothing to you if they don't match your query. So, Google combines PageRank with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant to your search."

John McCullough, Chief Technical Officer of Bandwidth Market said, "We hope and expect to rise yet higher in the respected Google ranking. Since the new BandwidthMarket.com site’s release over the past three weeks, many additional users and search engines have found our expanded site. We have seen a fourfold increase in the number of daily hits and unique visitors."

In April of 2001, Frost and Sullivan awarded Bandwidth Market, Ltd. with the 2001 Internet Marketing Strategy Leadership Award, and concluded that "BandwidthMarket.com’s website provides a wealth of information to its service provider sellers, and corporate and carrier buyers, and is effectively using the Internet as a key marketing strategy that will continue to drive company growth."

The Federal Communications Commission and 50 state public utilities commissions published telecommunications carriers’ tariffs, but implementation of a detariffing rule will eliminate much of that information from those or other sources. Bandwidth Market will keep more than 10,000 documents including the word tariff found in .17 seconds, on its web site, along with the 418 documents discussing "detariffing." Holme said, "The Internet grows exponentially in value as more information is available somewhere on the web. A network grows exponentially more valuable as more people connect to it. Our site is now extremely valuable as people can find, in one place, information from inventors, manufacturers, carriers, and users, on thousands of subjects, in a dozen languages."

Buyers and sellers of telecom services find maps, real time reports, industry standards, and company presentations about a specific product. Then, without leaving BandwidthMarket.com, buyers can make an informed buying decision. Bandwidth Market thus attracts buyers to its site, and additional sellers to join the more than 100 major carriers listed as customers of the company.