Web Hosting Provider Mpower Rings the Opening Bell on the Amex

Mpower (www.mpowercom.com) Holding Corporation (the parent company of Mpower Communications Corp.), a leading provider of broadband Internet access and telephone services to business customers, today rang the opening bell on The American Stock Exchange ® (Amex ®).

Twelve Mpower employees from the company's Las Vegas, St. Louis, Chicago, Rochester and various California offices and a cross-section of functional areas including customer service, sales and sales support, provisioning, IT, network services and finance, represented Mpower at the Amex today. Mpower's common stock began trading on the American Stock Exchange in May of this year.

"It was both fitting and symbolic to have our employees on the podium ringing the opening bell of the stock exchange this morning," noted Mpower Communications Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Rolla P. Huff.

Mpower Holding Corporation is the parent company of Mpower Communications, a leading facilities-based broadband communications provider offering a full range of data, telephony, Internet access and Web hosting services for small and medium-size business customers. Further information about the company can be found at www.mpowercom.com.

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