WorldCom's UUNET Wins Network Magazine's Product Of The Year Award For Best Worldwide ISP Service

FAIRFAX, Va., April 7, 1998 - UUNET Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of WorldCom, Inc. and a global leader in Internet communications solutions, today announced it won Network Magazine's 1998 Product of the Year Award for best worldwide ISP service. In selecting UUNET, Network Magazine wrote: "When searching for an ISP with worldwide coverage, a variety of access options, and high customer satisfaction, UUNET tops the chart."

The independent awards program focuses on the networking/IT field. Awards are presented to products, services and technologies that have shown to be of extraordinary value and significance to networking/IT executives and their enterprises. The editors of Network Magazine select nominees with consultation by impartial technical experts; the winners are chosen by the editors.

"We are very pleased to be recognized for the variety and quality of services we offer worldwide," said Alan Taffel, vice president of marketing and business development at UUNET. "UUNET continually strives to advance the Internet to new levels of performance and usefulness to business."

The Product of the Year Awards will be featured in Network Magazine's April issue and will be honored at the Networld+Interop conference, May 3-8 in Las Vegas.