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Comments• Provides Fully Managed Messaging and Data Services
• Delivers Necessary Business Applications with a Lower Cost of Ownership
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - July 27, 2004 - McLeodUSA Incorporated (Nasdaq: MCLD), one of the nation's largest independent competitive telecommunications services providers, today announced it is now offering Preferred AdvantageSM Hosted Exchange and Shared Web Hosting for business customers. With the addition of these new Preferred Advantage services, McLeodUSA will provide businesses with the capabilities of a fully managed messaging and data communications solution while lowering the total cost of ownership.
"McLeodUSA is committed to providing our customers with enhanced communications solutions that lower cost and improve business productivity," said Chris A. Davis, Chairman and CEO of McLeodUSA. "With Hosted Exchange and Shared Web Hosting, our customers can now outsource the management of these functions to McLeodUSA, thereby reducing IT infrastructure expenditures and eliminating the required resources to support these necessary business applications."
Preferred Advantage Hosted Exchange enables business customers to avoid large and frequent expenditures for updating their email and calendaring software, reduce costly hardware and infrastructure needs, and significantly reduce or eliminate network administration costs.
Customers can pay as they grow by subscribing to Hosted Exchange on a per seat basis and enjoy the flexibility that comes with scalable email and collaboration services utilizing Microsoft
Office Outlook® 2003. Hosted Exchange includes advanced email, company branding, meeting scheduler, shared calendar, shared contacts, collaborative task management, shared folders, and
contact management tools to increase efficiency and productivity. And with a user-friendly web portal, business customers will be able to manage all of their services, and easily add or delete seats to meet their specific business needs.
With Preferred Advantage Shared Web Hosting, business customers will increase brand awareness and expand business reach by providing an Internet presence with a unique domain name ("yourcompanyname.com"), providing a professional image when communicating with its customers, employees, suppliers and vendors. McLeodUSA business customers will also be able to establish an e-commerce website to be used as an additional sales distribution channel.
Additionally, to make it as simple as possible for customers to take full advantage of the Shared Web Hosting product, McLeodUSA is providing an easy to use Site Builder tool to assist customers in the creation and customization of their unique websites.
With both Preferred Advantage Hosted Exchange and Shared Web Hosting, business customers will be able to realize increased performance and user productivity with a cost-effective managed
services solution, offering the additional benefits of ease of use, scalability, reliability and a high level of security. With these services, McLeodUSA is able to provide business customers of any
size company, the opportunity to take advantage of capabilities that were previously reserved only for larger companies that could afford the financial investment in hardware, software and
technical resources.
McLeodUSA Preferred Advantage Hosted Exchange and Shared Web Hosting are available nationwide. For more information on McLeodUSA products and services, please contact a McLeodUSA Customer Care Representative at 1-800-593-1177 or visit the Company's website at www.mcleodusa.com
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About McLeodUSA
McLeodUSA provides integrated communications services, including local services, in 25 Midwest, Southwest, Northwest and Rocky Mountain states. The Company is a facilitiesbased
telecommunications provider with, as of March 31, 2004, 38 ATM switches, 40 voice switches, 667 collocations, 435 DSLAMs and 2,995 employees. As of April 16, 2002, Forstmann Little & Co. became a 58% shareholder in the Company.
Some of the statements in this press release include statements about our future expectations. Statements that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" for the purpose of the safe harbor provided by Section 21E of the Exchange Act and Section 27A of the Securities Act. These forward-looking statements are subject to known as well as unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from our expectations. Our expectations are based on various factors and assumptions and reflect only our predictions. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statement include technological, regulatory, public policy or other developments in our industry, availability and adequacy of capital resources, current and future economic conditions, the existence of strategic alliances, our ability to generate cash, our ability to implement process and
network improvements, our ability to attract and retain customers, our ability to migrate traffic to appropriate platforms and changes in the competitive climate in which we operate. These and other risks are described in more detail in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC. The Company undertakes no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of future events, new information or
otherwise.
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