Press Release

2.02.06 -- Upgrades Double Bandwidth, Disk Space and Email Addresses for Concentric Email, Starter, and Clustered Hosting Customers

SAN JOSE, CA - XO Communications, Inc. (OTCBB: XOCM.OB) today announced significant upgrades to its Concentric hosting plans to provide more value to businesses. Concentric is now offering increased bandwidth, disk space and email addresses with its Email Hosting, Starter, and Clustered Hosting plans.

Concentric plans now offer more than double the disk space, up to 160 percent more bandwidth and the ability to support more than double the number of email addresses. The upgraded plans include the following:

• Email Plan: 500MB of disk space and 10 email addresses
• Starter Plan: 1GB of disk space, 5GB of traffic, and 20 email addresses
• Basic Plan: 2GB of disk space, 40 GB of bandwidth, and 80 email addresses
• Professional Plan: 5GB of disk space, 75GB of bandwidth, and 200 email addresses
• Enterprise Plan: 10GB of disk space, 100GB of bandwidth, and 500 email addresses

In addition to the hosting plan upgrades, Concentric plans now also include a complimentary one year domain name registration with Basic, Professional, and Enterprise plans. XO is now also offering Private Domain Registration for customers who register their domain name through Concentric. Just $8.95 a year, this feature makes it more difficult for spammers to obtain contact email address and shields private information from the public, yet which has processes to help ensure that legitimate email, phone contacts or land mail reaches them.

“We are committed to continuously improving our service and ensuring that we have competitive offerings for our customers,” said Barbara Branaman, vice president and general manager of XO’s hosting business unit. “Businesses know Concentric’s reputation for reliability, security, and excellent customer support. With these new upgrades we are confident that small and medium sized business will recognize that Concentric continues to offer the best value in web hosting backed by service guarantees critical to operating a business online.”

The improved Concentric plans provide robust hosting solutions that cost effectively accommodate the budget requirements of small- and medium-sized businesses. Concentric hosting packages enable real-time web site creation, regular and private domain name registration, add value-add services to help businesses fully market and sell online, and offer a variety of features exclusive to its service and because they are designed for the small business:

• Easy-to-use file management, including Netdrive, providing the ability to drag and drop files into a single, secure source online, allowing multiple users to share files, collaborate, and manage version control.
• Secondary MX to allow businesses with their own mail server to use Concentric email as a secondary location to collect and store mail if their server crashes.
• DNS Management tools that allow customers to manage records for their account’s primary domain name as well as any domain aliases.
• The ability to add resources on demand via online instant provisioning tools, such as more disk space, traffic, email, etc., to handle any peaks in traffic and ensure optimum performance at all times.