Bandwidth Market, Ltd. announced today sales of high speed Internet access at $99 per megabit per second (Mbps) per month. The prices are available in the largest US cities for users at the 100 Mbps and higher speeds.

"The prices for enterprises and large web users continue to drop," said Howard Holme, President of Bandwidth Market, the largest Internet based telecommunications brokerage in the world. "Just two months ago, we announced monthly prices of $150/Mbps for the DS3 speed of 45 Mbps. Now, we have broken the $100 barrier for the popular enterprise circuits operating at 100 Mbps using fast Ethernet," Holme continued. The service is available in numerous locations, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, Boston, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Seattle, San Francisco, San Diego, Miami, Philadelphia, Denver, Kansas City, Orlando, and Tampa. These metropolitan areas make up about half of the United States population.

"Businesses and Internet Service Providers continue to increase their dependence on the Internet as they build ever larger web sites, do more business on line with customers, use the Internet to store and back up data, and move toward streaming video," said Barbara Shaw, Vice President of Bandwidth Market. The Internet continues to be the fastest growing telecommunications segment. This reduction in Internet access prices makes Bandwidth Market more important to carriers and large businesses."

Bandwidth Market has recently increased the number of intercity and intracity (or local loop) fast Ethernet and Gigabit offerings, stating lower prices connecting more than 15,000 location pairs at speeds of 100, 200, 700 and 1000 Mbps. Intercity bandwidth is available at 100 Mbps speed for $12,000 per month. "We also have excellent intracity Ethernet offerings at even lower prices," according to Holme. "Companies use Ethernet for their Local Area Networks. Ethernet is often the carriers' protocol within data centers or switching locations. Businesses can save large amounts on switching equipment as well as bandwidth costs by using these new services."

"Bandwidth Market lists more telecommunications offers for Internet access, point to point private lines, collocation, dark optical fiber and long distance voice minutes than any other web site in the world," Shaw said. Bandwidth Market helps companies buy, sell, and lease telecommunications services, including Internet access, private communications lines from 1 Million bits per second (Mbps) to 10,000 Mbps, collocation services, long distance minutes, and dark optical fiber," explained Holme. Bandwidth Market has hundreds of thousands of products listed in 500 U.S. cities and 300 countries-"the most telecom listings in the world," according to Holme. The site uses a complex search engine to sort offers and bids by city or country of origin or destination.

Earlier this year, 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."

November 21, 2001 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Bandwidth Market, Ltd. (bandwidthmarket.com) announced yesterday sales of high speed Internet access at $99 per megabit per second per month. The prices are available in the largest US cities for users at the 100 Mbps and higher speeds.

"The prices for enterprises and large Web users continue to drop," said Howard Holme, president of Bandwidth Market, an Internet-based telecommunications brokerage. "Just two months ago, we announced monthly prices of $150/Mbps for the DS3 speed of 45 Mbps. Now, we have broken the $100 barrier for the popular enterprise circuits operating at 100 Mbps using fast Ethernet," Holme continued. The service is available in numerous locations, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, Boston, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Seattle, San Francisco, San Diego, Miami, Philadelphia, Denver, Kansas City, Orlando, and Tampa. These metropolitan areas make up about half of the United States population.

"Businesses and Internet Service Providers continue to increase their dependence on the Internet as they build ever larger Web sites, do more business on line with customers, use the Internet to store and back up data, and move toward streaming video," said Barbara Shaw, vice president of Bandwidth Market. The Internet continues to be the fastest growing telecommunications segment. This reduction in Internet access prices makes Bandwidth Market more important to carriers and large businesses."

Bandwidth Market has recently increased the number of intercity and intracity (or local loop) fast Ethernet and Gigabit offerings, stating lower prices connecting more than 15,000 location pairs at speeds of 100, 200, 700 and 1000 Mbps. Intercity bandwidth is available at 100 Mbps speed for $12,000 per month. "We also have excellent intracity Ethernet offerings at even lower prices," according to Holme. "Companies use Ethernet for their Local Area Networks. Ethernet is often the carriers" protocol within data centers or switching locations. Businesses can save large amounts on switching equipment as well as bandwidth costs by using these new services."