CLEC People - May 25, 2001

DSL.net, Inc. (NASDAQ NM: DSLN), a provider of high-speed Internet access solutions for small- and medium-sized businesses, announced two recent appointments to its senior management team. Walter R. Keisch has been appointed vice president of finance. Keisch will have responsibility for all day-to-day financial operations of the company and will be heavily involved in the company's financing efforts. As vice president of customer service and support, Ms. Poulicakos will be responsible for all aspects of service operations, customer retention and relationship management. Poulicakos joins DSL.net from Covad Communications, where she was director of customer support, responsible for ISP wholesaling activities.

Net2000 (Nasdaq:NTKK), a provider of broadband telecommunications services, announced executive changes that will restructure the leadership team. Clyde Heintzelman, president, will retire from the company as a full-time executive effective June 1, 2001. Heintzelman will remain on the company's board of directors and also serve as an executive consultant to the company. Duane Albro, a recent addition to Net2000's board of directors and an executive consultant to the company, will replace Heintzelman as president and will also assume the role of chief operating officer. Mark Mendes, a Net2000 executive vice president, will become Net2000's first chief technology officer.

Heintzelman, 62, has served on Net2000's board of directors since 1997 and was named Net2000's president in November 1999. He is recognized as a telecommunications and Internet leader with over 25 years of experience in management, marketing and sales. Prior to joining Net2000, Heintzelman was president and chief executive officer of SAVVIS Communications Corporation, a national Tier I Internet service provider. Before SAVVIS, he was chief operating officer and president of DIGEX, which was acquired by Intermedia Communications in July 1996. Earlier he served in a variety of senior management positions with Bell Atlantic.

Albro, 54, was named to Net2000's board of directors in March 2001. His 30 years of telecommunications executive management and operations experience includes his most recent position as operations vice president and chief operating officer for Bell Atlantic - New York, with responsibility for a $650 million operation, including 8,000 employees providing telecommunications services to 13 million customers. Before that, Albro held several executive positions with Bell Atlantic, New York (NYNEX Corporation).

Mendes, 39, has served as a senior officer of Net2000 since joining in 1997 - through the company's initial public offering and the inauguration of the company's regional network deployment and expansion. Prior to Net2000, he served as chief operating officer for US WATS - a facilities based long distance carrier. He also served as vice president of services and technology for Access Teleconferencing International - which has since become Genesys Conferencing.

New Edge Networks announced the appointment of Allan Jaffe as vice president of sales. Jaffe will be responsible for directing the company's overall strategies for selling broadband DSL and WAN services and managing the company's wholesale, direct and alternate distribution channels. Before joining New Edge Networks, Jaffe was vice president of sales for NorthPoint Communications. Prior to that, Jaffe held various executive, sales and management positions with SBC Telecommunications and Pacific Bell in California. Jaffe has a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of California, Davis and a master's degree in finance from Golden Gate University in San Francisco.

Mpower unveiled a new organizational structure that de-layers the company to reflect its changing management needs and to add accountability for executing the revised business plan.
- Joe Wetzel has been named President and Chief Operating Officer with responsibility for network services, service delivery, information technology, product management and customer service. Wetzel joined Mpower in August of 2000 as President of Operations.
- Gregg Clevenger has been named Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy and Planning Officer with responsibility for overall corporate planning and strategy. He will also be the executive responsible for the process of exiting the markets. Clevenger was formerly Senior Vice President of Strategy, Planning and Business Development and has been with Mpower since January of 2000.
To better manage the company on a market-level profitability basis and to place even more emphasis on its direct sales force, Mpower has realigned it sales organization into two regions, each reporting into the Chief Executive Officer.
- Paul Celuch, formerly President of Sales, has been appointed East Region President, and will oversee the company's markets in Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, North Carolina, Georgia and Florida.
- Brad Terry, West Region President, will continue to manage the company's markets in California and Nevada, and will now oversee the Texas markets as well.