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Rollout highlights key advancements in integration of regional leaders

RYE BROOK, N.Y.- May 30, 2007 - Broadview Networks Holdings, Inc., a leading provider of integrated communications, has announced continued momentum in its integration with recently acquired ATX Communications, including the expansion of a premier product offering and the implementation of enhanced customer experience initiatives.

The Company has extended its ATX FrontLineSM suite of managed security services to additional Broadview markets including the New York and Boston metro areas, as well as Upstate New York and Rhode Island. Combining technology and expertise that establish best practices for customers' e-mail filtering, firewall management, and secure remote access - all for a single, predictable monthly fee - the FrontLine solution set is now available to organizations throughout Broadview's extensive Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic footprint.

"FrontLine answers a real need among small and mid-size businesses," stated Lou Sommi, Senior Vice President of Product Marketing for Broadview. "Partnering with Broadview lets customers defend their businesses against threats that require more than just a basic firewall or one-size-fits-all software. Plus, deploying these security measures as an outsourced IT solution lets them concentrate on their own objectives and core competencies, rather than worrying about issues like employee Internet usage and productivity, network access, or compliance and other legal exposure."

Key benefits of FrontLine's security services include blocking malicious and unwanted activity at the network level, long before it ever reaches a customer's server or threatens its operations, as well as providing web-based tools for access to performance reports and controls, keeping customers informed and involved without dedicating staff resources to maintain the applications.

To serve the new Northeast markets, the Company has deployed a new Cisco Catalyst switch at its New York City data center. Since its initial rollout in ATX's Mid-Atlantic footprint in late 2004, FrontLine has had a considerable impact: surpassing an estimated 50,000 commercial end-users in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and the Baltimore-Washington corridor in its first year on the market, and earning the 2006 Product of the Year Award from TMCnet/Communications Solutions magazine.

In another significant step, the Company has initiated the migration of ATX customers to Broadview's best-in-class billing system. As a result, legacy ATX customers are benefiting from a new bill layout and access to an online "e-Care Center." With a clear, easy-to-read format, the enhanced bill features quick-reference summaries and graphs to help customers track usage trends and by location, while the e-Care Center lets customers view bill detail, review service choices, and make electronic payments via a secure online tool at their convenience.

"A shared customer-oriented culture is one of the characteristics that make ATX and Broadview such a complementary pairing," said Brian P. Crotty, Chief Operating Officer of Broadview Networks. "These billing enhancements add a valuable new layer to the exceptional customer support the ATX team has delivered for more than 20 years, while the expansion of the FrontLine suite lets us deliver crucial security services to augment the voice and data services already utilized by Broadview customers."

"Our ability to leverage each company's respective strengths," added Crotty, "means that the completion of the Broadview-ATX integration will solidify our ability to serve small and mid-size businesses with even more capabilities than before, while ensuring high levels of quality, attention, and care that they simply wouldn't find anywhere else."

About Broadview Networks (www.Broadviewnet.com)

Broadview Networks is a network-based integrated communications provider serving approximately 70,000 small and mid-sized businesses throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions of the U.S. Broadview makes it easy for organizations to implement technologies that solve their infrastructure, security, and productivity challenges. The Company delivers total solutions, integrating local and long distance voice communications; hosted and premise-based VoIP systems; data services encompassing VPN- and MPLS-enabled applications; traditional telephone hardware; high-speed Internet services; and a full suite of managed network security services. Broadview customers benefit from award-winning customer service including a web-based account management tool and a primary point-of-contact for real-time, personal customer care.

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