Covad Voice-Optimized Access Powers Industry's Leading VoIP Services

  
    
  
  
    
      Covad Communications Group Inc., (AMEX:DVW), a leading national provider 
      of integrated voice and data communications, announced several wholesale 
      service provider partners that are using its unique voice-optimized 
      broadband access to power their bundled service solutions. The 
      announcement was made at the Spring VON Conference & Expo, where Lisa 
      Graham, general manager of wholesale services for Covad, presents today 
      at 1:00 p.m. PT in a discussion entitled, “Delivering 
      VoIP – A Better Model: Bundling with Carrier 
      Partners for Single Service Solutions.” Ms. 
      Graham, responsible for managing Covad’s 
      nationwide network of 450 wholesale partners, will discuss Covad’s 
      Voice-Optimized Access (VOA) product and the increasing demand for its 
      use with partners’ VoIP services. Covad’s 
      VOA product powers VoIP services from over fifty partners, including 
      Bandwidth.com, CommX, and Thinking Phones Networks, enabling them to 
      provide customers with leading, business-class voice and data services.
    
    
      “Covad’s unique 
      voice-optimized broadband access enables us to provide true 
      business-quality voice and data services from our VoIP platform,” 
      said Michael Rogers, CommX Vice President. “Combined 
      with Covad’s award-winning partner systems 
      and tools, this service puts us far ahead of our competition in serving 
      our demanding and savvy business customers.”
    
    
      Covad Voice-Optimized Access is an award-winning broadband access 
      service that prioritizes voice packets over data on Covad’s 
      managed nationwide network all the way through the last mile. The 
      resulting connection minimizes packet loss, maximizes network 
      utilization, and is designed to provide a superior voice service. VOA is 
      available with several of Covad’s broadband 
      access products, including T1, SDSL, and dedicated ADSL. Covad VOA fits 
      within the existing regulatory framework and is an excellent way for 
      voice providers looking to reduce overall costs and complexity and to 
      differentiate their VoIP service from competitors.
    
    
      In addition to VOA, Covad offers partners a broad portfolio of DSL and 
      T1 services, including bonded T1 and next generation ADSL services that 
      operate through the nation’s largest 
      next-generation ADSL 2+ network. For more information on Covad services, 
      please visit www.covad.com.
    
    
      About Covad
    
    
      Covad is a leading nationwide provider of integrated voice and data 
      communications. The company offers DSL, Voice Over IP, T1, broadband 
      wireless, Web hosting, managed security, IP and dial-up, and bundled 
      voice and data services directly through Covad's network and through 
      Internet Service Providers, value-added resellers, telecommunications 
      carriers and affinity groups to small and medium-sized businesses and 
      home users. Covad broadband services are currently available across the 
      nation in 44 states and 235 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) and 
      can be purchased by more than 57 million homes and businesses, which 
      represent over 50 percent of all US homes and businesses. Corporate 
      headquarters is located at 110 Rio Robles, San Jose, CA 95134. 
      Telephone: 1-888-GO-COVAD. Web Site: www.covad.com.
    
    
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      Act of 1995:
    
    
      The foregoing contains "forward-looking statements" which are based on 
      management's current information and beliefs as well as on a number of 
      assumptions concerning future events made by management. Examples of 
      forward-looking statements include expectations regarding Covad’s 
      sale of its VOA access services to Bandwidth.com, CommX, Thinking 
      Phones, and other VoIP providers. Readers are cautioned not to put undue 
      reliance on such forward-looking statements, which are not a guarantee 
      of performance and are subject to a number of uncertainties and other 
      factors, many of which are outside Covad's control that could cause 
      actual results to differ materially from such statements. These risk 
      factors include our ability to rapidly expand and deploy these services, 
      the impact of increasing competition, pricing pressures, consolidation 
      in the telecommunications industry, uncertainty in telecommunications 
      regulations and changes in technologies, among other risks. For a more 
      detailed description of the risk factors that could cause such a 
      difference, please see Covad's 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K and other filings with 
      the Securities and Exchange Commission. Covad disclaims any intention or 
      obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether 
      as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. This 
      information is presented solely to provide additional information to 
      further understand the results of Covad.