Level 3 to Provide Voice Services to Charter

BROOMFIELD, Colo., Aug. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Level 3 Communications, Inc. today announced that it is has been awarded a contract to provide cable operator Charter Communications, Inc. with long distance voice services and local interconnection services in select markets.

Under the terms of the agreement, Charter will utilize Level 3′s (3)Voice(R) Termination services to complete long-distance telephone calls made by Charter broadband subscribers. Level 3 will also provide (3)Link(R) Private Line services to facilitate local interconnection. Charter currently offers voice telephone service in three markets and has previously announced that its telephony offering will pass one million households by year’s end.

“This agreement with Level 3 will enable us to improve our cost structure and help accelerate our deployment of telephone services,” said Tom Cullen, Executive Vice President of Advanced Services for Charter. “As a recognized VoIP leader and backbone operator, Level 3 has the network, technical expertise and experience we were looking for in an underlying provider.”

“We’re very pleased that Charter has elected to use our VoIP services,” said Sureel Choksi, president of Softswitch Services for Level 3. “We look forward to enabling Charter, one of the cable industry’s most technically innovative operators, as it deploys residential phone service.”

Level 3 has been providing VoIP termination service since December 1999 to PTTs, inter-exchange carriers, enhanced service providers, cable operators and other companies in the U.S. and abroad. Today, Level 3 offers a full range of wholesale, residential and business voice services over a robust softswitch-based network platform that carries more than 30 billion minutes of IP-based voice and data calls every month.

For more information about Level 3′s portfolio of VoIP services, please visit http://www.level3.com/.

About Level 3 Communications

Level 3 is an international communications and information services company. The company operates one of the largest Internet backbones in the world, is one of the largest providers of wholesale dial-up service to ISPs in North America and is the primary provider of Internet connectivity for millions of broadband subscribers, through its cable and DSL partners. The company offers a wide range of communications services over its 23,000 mile broadband fiber optic network including Internet Protocol (IP) services, broadband transport and infrastructure services, colocation services, and patented Softswitch managed modem and voice services. Its Web address is http://www.level3.com/.

The company offers information services through its subsidiaries, Software Spectrum and (i)Structure. For additional information, visit their respective Web sites at http://www.softwarespectrum.com/ and http://www.i-structure.com/.

The Level 3 logo, (3)Voice and (3)Link are registered service marks of Level 3 Communications, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. (3)Voice Termination and (3)Link Private Line services provided by Level 3 Communications, LLC, a subsidiary of Level 3 Communications, Inc.

Forward Looking Statement

Some of the statements made by Level 3 in this press release are forward-looking in nature. Actual results may differ materially from those projected in forward-looking statements. Level 3 believes that its primary risk factors include, but are not limited to: changes in the overall economy relating to, among other things, the September 11 attacks and subsequent events, substantial capital requirements; development of effective internal processes and systems; the ability to attract and retain high quality employees; technology; the number and size of competitors in its markets; law and regulatory policy; and the mix of products and services offered in the company’s target markets. Additional information concerning these and other important factors can be found within Level 3′s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Statements in this release should be evaluated in light of these important factors.

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