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CopperCom Named 'Investors' Choice' at Technologic Partners' Network Outlook '99 Conference SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 15, 1999--CopperCom Inc., a Silicon Valley company that is Giving Voice to DSL, was one of 10 companies chosen as 'Most Likely to Succeed' at the Network Outlook '99 conference hosted by Technologic Partners last week. CopperCom was selected for the "Investors' Choice" honor from among 87 privately financed technology companies that presented their business plans to an audience of several hundred venture capitalists, money managers, investment bankers, and industry executives. "Voice/data convergence and local loop technology alternatives are two of today's hottest topics, and CopperCom presented a compelling business case," said Richard A. Shaffer, founder of Technologic Partners and the conference's host. Selection of the 10 "Investors' Choice" companies honored at the Network Outlook '99 conference was based on voting by the audience, as well as on the recommendation of a distinguished panel of technology investors that included Harvey Allison, partner at Attractor Investment Management; Farrokh Billimoria, senior technology analyst at Hambrecht & Quist; Ronald Conway, director of strategic relationships at CBT Systems; and James R. Swartz, founding partner at Accel Partners. "We are extremely honored to be selected as 'most likely to succeed' by this distinguished audience," said Cynthia Ringo, president and CEO of CopperCom. "This award is a huge vote of confidence for CopperCom's vision, business strategy, technology and management team from people who understand what it takes for a start-up to be a winner." CopperCom is paving the way for the next generation of high-bandwidth applications -- broadband loop emulation services. The company designs, develops, and markets a new class of DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) products and technology, Complete DSL, that let phone companies deliver high-speed data and multiple telephone lines simultaneously over a single, conventional copper wire pair in the local loop to small businesses and upscale residences. To date, DSL products have delivered miraculously fast Internet access over the existing telephone infrastructure. CopperCom's technology will enhance this capability by stretching the copper even further.