US LEC Adds New Sales Team in Florida.

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Oct. 30 /PRNewswire/ --

US LEC Corp. (Nasdaq: CLEC), a telecommunications carrier providing voice, data and Internet services to business customers throughout the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic, has assembled a new sales team to focus primarily on the Ft. Lauderdale area of South Florida.

"Our new team in Ft. Lauderdale is a real asset to our ability to reach more customers in South Florida," said Dino Morra, US LEC's director of sales for Miami. "Customers in this area are choosing US LEC because they are realizing that we are a financially stable and proven provider of excellent voice and data services. They know they can trust us."

"We are very excited about the addition of our Ft. Lauderdale team," said Aaron Cowell, US LEC's president and COO. "Our success in Florida, and customer demand in the Miami to Jupiter corridor in particular, made the decision to add this new team easy. US LEC began serving Florida markets in 1998 when we activated switching centers in Orlando, Tampa, Miami and Jacksonville. Since then, Florida has been our most successful and fastest growing market, and in response to customer demand, we added switching centers in West Palm Beach in 2000 and Ft. Myers earlier this year. We now provide mission critical voice, data and Internet services to approximately 2,000 medium and large-sized businesses in Florida. Same-store sales remain strong, and we have more than doubled our end customer revenue in Florida in the last 12 months."

US LEC's digital switching centers are located in Ft. Myers, Jacksonville, Orlando, Miami, Tampa and West Palm Beach. US LEC provides voice, data and Internet services to business communities throughout Florida including Boca Raton, Clearwater, Cocoa Beach, Daytona Beach, Ft. Lauderdale, Ft. Myers, Gainesville, Jacksonville, Lakeland, Melbourne, Miami, Naples, Orlando, Sarasota, St. Augustine, St. Petersburg, Tampa, Titusville, West Palm Beach, and Winterhaven. US LEC as been serving business customers in Florida since August of 1998.

US LEC is a telecommunications carrier providing voice, data and Internet services to customers throughout the southeastern and mid-Atlantic United States and is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. US LEC's network of 26 digital switching centers consists of Lucent 5ESS(R) AnyMedia(TM) digital switches, Lucent CBX500 ATM data switches, Juniper M20(TM) Internet Gateway routers and an Alcatel MegaHub(R) 600ES. The Company primarily serves telecommunications-intensive business customers. US LEC can be found on the World Wide Web at www.uslec.com.

Except for the historical information contained herein, this report contains forward-looking statements, subject to uncertainties and risks, including the demand for US LEC's services, the ability of the Company to introduce additional products, the ability of the Company to successfully attract and retain personnel, competition in existing and potential additional markets, uncertainties regarding its dealings with ILECs and other telecommunications carriers and facilities providers, regulatory uncertainties, the possibility of adverse decisions related to reciprocal compensation and access charges owing to the Company, as well as the Company's ability to begin operations in additional markets. These and other applicable risks are summarized in the "Forward-Looking Statements and Risk Factors" section and elsewhere in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the period ended December 31, 2000, and in subsequent reports which are on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Media Contact: Jennifer Sharpe

704-319-1135

jsharpe@uslec.com

Investor Contacts: James Stawski

704-319-1189

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