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Atlantic Telecom Group PLC
27 April 2000


                 Atlantic Telecom Group
   Launch of high speed data services, atlantic-e.com and
         unmetered Internet and telephone calls

Atlantic  Telecommunications  Limited
("Atlantic"  or "Atlantic  Telecom"),  a
wholly  owned  subsidiary  of Atlantic
Telecom  Group PLC, the innovative  telecoms
operator, today announces the launch of its
first high speed  data  service  and  its
own  Internet  Service Provider (ISP),
atlantic-e.com.

Atlantic  is  also announcing a revolutionary
pricing tariff  offering  a  subscription-
based  fixed   price service  which, for the
residential market, is  priced
at #49.99 a month (including VAT). This will
provide:

* Unmetered, "always on", high speed access to
  atlantice.com
* Unmetered fixed line, local and national
  voice calls throughout the UK
* Two voice lines and a high speed data line
  with an Ethernet connection
  
For  the business market, the tariff is
variable based
on  the number of lines taken, and starts
at #100  per month  (excluding  VAT) for
an  equivalent  two  voice lines  and  a
high-speed data line with  an  Ethernet
connection offering unmetered, "always
on", high speed access  to  atlantic-e.com
and unmetered  fixed  line, local and
national voice calls throughout the UK.

Atlantic's high speed service, which will
initially be available  in  parts  of  the
City  of  Glasgow,  will provide
customers  with  a  data  service   at
bidirectional  speeds  of up to 2.4Mbs,
over  20  times faster than basic rate
ISDN.

Atlantic's  high  speed  service  will  be
available throughout Atlantic's existing
networks by the end  of 2000;   however
all  new  networks  beginning   with
Manchester  will  feature  the  service
from  network launch.

atlantic-e.com  will  initially be
available  to  all Atlantic's directly
connected customers with  a  highspeed
connection.  Access will  be  extended  to
all Atlantic customers in the near future.

The  launch  of  Atlantic's  high-speed
service  will greatly  improve  Internet
access for  its  customers. Increasingly,
customers want to have the  ability  to
send  and receive data at high speed, yet
the cost  of conventional services has
acted as a barrier. Atlantic will now
be  able  to  give  these  customers an
affordable,   high   quality   service
which    will revolutionise the speed at
which they can  connect  to the Internet
and transfer data.

atlantic-e.com  has also been developed
to  meet  the requirement from customers
for Internet provision that adds  value.
Atlantic's strategy is  to  see  things
differently,  and atlantic-e.com does
that  with  two
portals  which  open up the possibility of
community based  Business-to-Business  and
Business-to-Consumer trading.
In  the  coming  months  atlantic-e.com
will  develop unique  services  which
will  only  be  available  to Atlantic
customers.   In  particular,  Atlantic has
teamed up with AboveNet UK Ltd, a leading
provider  of high  performance  Internet
capacity  and  reach,  to provide the
following benefits:

* fast, high reliability access to the
  largest number of producers of internet content 
  around the world;
* a co-location service at its maximum resilience
  datacentre in Global Switch;
* direct access to what Atlantic believes is
  the best performing, most scalable IP network in the
  world with the most extensive set of peering
  relationships.
  
Atlantic's  high-speed data service and atlantic-
e.com will  be launched to selected customers
from tomorrow. The  new  subscription
based  tariff,  including  unmetered
voice calls, will be available from June
1st 2000.

Graham   J  Duncan,  Executive  Chairman
of  Atlantic Telecom, said:

"Today's  moves underline our innovative
approach  to the  market with ground-
breaking services and features which  will
provide significant benefits to  all  our
customers, whether businesses or
residential.

We  have  always believed that charging
customers  for the  length of their phone
calls or for how  far  away they  are
calling  will  become  unsustainable. The
introduction of our subscription-based
tariff combined with the removal of
distance-based charging within the fixed
line UK market goes a long way to
achieving  the tariff model for the new
century."

For further information please contact

Atlantic Telecom Group PLC
Graham J Duncan, Executive Chairman
Tel:  (+44) 020 7638 9571(today only) 

Citigate Dewe Rogerson
Patrick Toyne Sewell/Sara Thomas
Tel:  (+44)020 7638 9571



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