DSLExtreme Adds Qwest Coverage to Its Expanding Nationwide Network

DSLExtreme, a Los Angeles-based provider of high-speed and traditional Internet services, has expanded its coverage to include the Qwest DSL network in its growing residential and business broadband platform. As of October 1st, DSLExtreme's Qwest coverage area, ranging from speeds of 256Kbs to 7Mps, now includes Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. The expansion helps DSLExtreme offer a highly competitive stand-alone broadband solution to customers without requiring traditional residential telephone services. DSLExtreme will also continue to offer hosting, dedicated connections, dial-up access, email, and exchange hosting to customers throughout the country.

"Adding Qwest services to our network gives us a quick fourteen state expansion and competitive DSL access product for potential new customers in those territories," said Jim Murphy, DSLExtreme President. IKANO Communications, a leading provider of private-label Internet services, recently acquired the operations of DSLExtreme. "IKANO's network infrastructure and strong relationship with Qwest meshed well with our existing network and DSL provisioning system. The platform allows us to expand our retail and wholesale business simultaneously."

Since the acquisition, IKANO has leveraged DSLExtreme to expand coverage and build additional network relationships that will allow its existing customer base to benefit from the acquired solutions. "The new growth of our DSL network is part of IKANO's present strategy to ramp wholesale DSL services across the country while continuing to service our existing dial footprint," said George Naspo, IKANO CEO. "Our company will keep on the expansion push in order to provide our customers with even larger consolidated networks at reduced rates." IKANO's recently upgraded wholesale DSL services, restructured pricing, and expanded territory with Bell Canada will be announced at the upcoming tradeshow ISPCON, taking place November 7-9 in Santa Clara, California.

About IKANO

IKANO Communications (www.ikano.com) was founded over 10 years ago as a regional Internet service provider in the Intermountain West and since then has flourished to become the industry leader in private-label, wholesale, and retail Internet services. IKANO leverages its ISP platform to provide outstanding services at highly competitive prices. The company's rapid growth and excellence in the field have resulted in IKANO's ranking in the Inc. 500, Technology Fast 500, Inner City 100, Utah 100, and Call Center of the Year.

About DSLExtreme

DSLExtreme (www.dslextreme.com) is the largest private DSL provider in the California region and is a leading provider of high-speed and traditional Internet services. Founded in May 1999 and headquartered in Los Angeles, DSLExtreme offers a suite of online products and services for consumer and business customers throughout the United States. Services include DSL and dial-up service, Web hosting and data circuits, with superior quality connectivity and minimal drop-off. The DSLExtreme network serves tens of thousands of clients in over twenty-one major metropolitan areas across the country.