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VIATEL: Viatel launches reseller services in Western Europe
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OCT 10, 2000, M2 Communications - Brighton -- Viatel, Inc. today announced the launch of its reseller channel in Europe, offering UK resellers the chance to provide voice services in France, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium.
The European Reseller Service will build on the success of Viatel's UK operation, which recently ranked number one in an NOP survey of resellers' attitudes to communications companies. Commencing in France, Viatel will provide a switched access, national, international and mobile voice service and national ISDN employing its own network.
Viatel provides a secure, Web-based provisioning system that enables resellers to provision new customers and make changes to existing customers' telephone numbers. Resellers will also be able to download fully-rated billing data on a daily basis over the Web. Full call itemisation is available on a monthly basis and billing is available in the relevant currency. Viatel will provide Customer Care support at local level in each country.
Symphony Telecom - part of the 365 Corporation - is a UK Reseller that is currently trialing Viatel's reseller service in France. Mark Jones, Managing Director of Symphony Telecom, said: "We chose the Viatel Reseller Service in France because of the world class service we receive from Viatel in the UK. We find that by being able to offer Viatel's services in the French marketplace,
our own operations are enhanced and our European expansion is facilitated."
About Viatel
Viatel, Inc. is the All Distance, All Services telecommunications provider.
The Company provides local and long-distance, voice and data, bandwidth and Web-centric solutions to end-users, including corporations, ISPs, ASPs and other carriers in Western Europe and North America. Furthermore, Viatel is the owner-operator-builder of a state-of-the-art global network that includes a multi-conduit, cross-border, fiber-optic network that will soon link 59 major cities in Western Europe. Over 8,700 route kilometres of the announced 10,400 route kilometres are fully constructed. Metropolitan networks are also being built in London, Amsterdam, Paris, Berlin, Frankfurt, Dusseldorf and New York. In addition, Viatel has significant trans-Atlantic capacity, including the fibre pair that the Company will own and operate on the Yellow Submarine cable.
Viatel in the UK Viatel owns and operates a 2,200 kilometre advanced fibre-optic network linking 20 cities in the UK -- a network that enables it to provide voice, data, Internet and mobile services throughout the UK. Viatel has more than 4,000 corporate clients in the UK, including 300 of the country's 500 largest blue chip companies. Through its affiliate company, Telco Global Communications, Viatel also provides international and national calling services, carrier services, mobile traffic, pre- and post-paid calling cards to over 500,000 customers.
For more information about Viatel and the products and services that it offers, visit www.viatel.com
The matters discussed in this release are forwarding-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties detailed from time to time in Viatel's registration statements and reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including those contained in its 1999 Annual Report on Form 10-K. Viatel undertakes no duty to update such forward-looking statements.
