Time Warner Telecom Calls on FCC to Support Competitive Telecom Market by Imposing Conditions to AT&

Time Warner Telecom (NASDAQ: TWTC) , a leading provider of voice and
data networking solutions to businesses across the country, today
called on the FCC to rigorously review the proposed AT&T-BellSouth
merger and not approve such a merger, absent regulatory conditions that
fully address the consequences of the merger for business customers.

"The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) approved the AT&T-BellSouth
merger without conditions that would have addressed the consequences of
the merger for business customers," said Paul Jones, Senior Vice
President and General Counsel, Time Warner Telecom. "This makes it
all the more important that the FCC thoroughly review the merger and
impose appropriate conditions.

"Time Warner Telecom is an innovative competitor that derives most of
its revenue from services delivered over its own fiber network. We are
one of the largest competitive service providers of business-class
services with over 6,400 commercial buildings directly connected to our
own fiber network. In contrast, AT&T and BellSouth have local
facilities serving literally hundreds of thousands of commercial
buildings. In the situations where we must use incumbent carrier local
transmission facilities to reach distant customer locations, we, and
other industry competitors, need regulatory checks on incumbent
monopoly power to enable competition while protecting business
customers from higher prices and degraded service quality.

"I therefore urge the FCC to thoroughly review the proposed merger
and not to approve the merger without conditions that fully address the
merged firms exercise of market power," Jones added.

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