Sports Teams, Ice Centers to Receive Upgraded Communications Solution, Cost Certainty DALLAS and RESTON, Va., Jan. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- XO Communications, Inc. (OTC:XOCM.OB) (BULLETIN BOARD: XOCM.OB) today announced it has secured a three-year agreement to provide voice and data services to the Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars. Under terms of the agreement, XO will deploy communications solutions for the Rangers at Ameriquest Field in Arlington, for the Stars at their Frisco headquarters and at three Dr Pepper StarCenters located across the Metroplex. As a result, the combined entities will consolidate from four service providers to one. "First and foremost, we were looking for a partner that could address our near-term and future communications requirements," said Casey Shilts, executive vice president, Hicks Holdings. "We were most impressed with the quality of XO's service offerings, which will deliver improved functionality and performance over our current environment. At the same time, we benefit from communications cost certainty with a budget that is virtually unchanged." At Ameriquest Field, XO will give the Rangers a 25 percent increase in voice capacity, while doubling available data bandwidth. Stars headquarters will experience a similar increase in data bandwidth. XO's award-winning VoIP solution, XOptions Flex, will be installed at the three Dr Pepper StarCenters. Because Flex works with the existing communications infrastructure, there will not be a need to invest in new VoIP equipment to benefit from Flex's dynamic bandwidth allocation across a shared voice and data connection, producing a minimum of three times the currently available bandwidth at those locations. "Businesses throughout the Metroplex want four things from their communications provider -- product, performance, predictability and price," said James McLendon, XO Communications' general manager for the Dallas market. "We look forward to delivering all four to the Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars for the next three years -- and beyond." About XO Communications XO Communications is a leading provider of national and local telecommunications services to businesses, large enterprises and telecommunications companies. XO offers a complete portfolio of services, including local and long distance voice, dedicated Internet access, private networking, data transport, and Web hosting services as well as bundled voice and Internet solutions. XO provides these services over an advanced, national facilities-based IP network and serves more than 70 metropolitan markets across the United States. For more information, visit http://www.xo.com/. DATASOURCE: XO Communications, Inc. CONTACT: Chad Couser of XO Communications, +1-703-547-2746, ; or Alan Gilbert of Crawford PR, +1-703-255-3835, , for XO Communications Web site: http://www.xo.com/

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