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Targets Nearly 9,000 Companies With $5 Billion Turnover
-- ALO, as a supplier of broadband services, will offer the customers
data connectivity solutions, voice and Internet-related services.
-- The metropolitan fiber optic networks that ALO has developed in
Barcelona and Valencia will link the customers to the company's
domestic network and RSL COM's worldwide network.
MADRID, Spain, Aug. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- ALO Comunicaciones S.A., a
subsidiary of RSL Communications, Ltd. (Nasdaq: RSLC), has today announced
that the first phase of its fiber optic metropolitan area networks in
Barcelona and Valencia are now operative.
The areas covered by the metropolitan network means that nearly
9,000 companies, with a turnover of 870146 million pesetas a year (about
$5 billion, U.S.), can enjoy ALO's services. Using its multi-service
networks, ALO will be able to offer its customers data, voice and
Internet-related services (access, hosting, e-commerce, ASPs, etc.). The SMEs
will also be able to enjoy the advantages of a fiber optic network where the
security and the high capacity of the network will provide global and integral
communications.
In addition to the fiber, ALO offers other access technologies such as
point-to-point and, by the end of the year, ISDN, ADSL, and LMDS, in order to
cover more extensive areas. ALO provides efficient, functional, rapid and
flexible solutions, adapted to the customers' needs.
The metropolitan fiber optic networks that ALO has developed in Barcelona
and Valencia will link the customers to its Genesis network, ALO's domestic
trunk network, and to RSL NET, RSL COM's worldwide network.
ALO Comunicaciones S.A., is the first American telecommunications operator
in Spain that provides direct services under a national B1 license. The
company has its own infrastructure of over 3,460 Km in fibre optic trunk
rings, as well as metropolitan networks in over 18 cities. ALO offers
long-distance telephone services, pre- and post-payment cards, private lines,
intelligent network services, Broadband and Internet for companies, private
customers and carriers. It also offers access to the subscriber's local loop
in order to provide high-speed permanent Internet connection at a flat rate,
free local telephone services between subscribers, designing, developing and
hosting web pages, together with a wide range of new services aimed at meeting
the demands of the Spanish market.
RSL COM U.S.A. is a subsidiary of RSL Communications, Ltd. facilities-
based communications company that provides a broad range of data and Internet,
voice and value-added service solutions primarily to small and medium sized
businesses and residential customers in selected markets around the globe.
Through its subsidiary, deltathree.com, RSL COM also owns and operates a
privately managed Internet Protocol telephone network with 71 points of
presence in 36 countries. For additional information on RSL Communications,
Ltd. visit the website at www.rslcom.com .
SOURCE RSL Communications, Ltd.
-0- 08/07/2000
/CONTACT: Alan Garratt of RSL Communications, 212-445-7438, or fax,
212-445-7528, or agarratt@rslcom.com/
/Web site: rslcom.com
(RSLC)
CO: ALO Comunicaciones S.A.; RSL Communications, Ltd.
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