February 20, 2002 -- Yipes Communications, Inc., a provider of scalable Ethernet services, announced that it is extending its services across Europe and the United Kingdom in partnership with Storm Telecommunications, one of Europe's providers of "on-demand" international network services, and Neos, a national provider of Gigabit Ethernet services in the United Kingdom.

By combining network access, the partnership between Storm, Yipes and Neos offers U.S., U.K. and European businesses Ethernet connections from 1 Megabit per second to 1 Gigabit per second to major commercial centers in the United States and Europe. Storm's Ethernet On-Demand service currently operates between London, New York, Paris, Frankfurt and Amsterdam, increasing to 8 European cities during 2002. The Neosnet national network covers Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Reading, Cambridge, Leeds, Leicester, Southport and 30 metro POPs covering the City of London, Metro London and the Thames Valley. The Yipes national network covers 21 U.S. cities including Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.

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