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February 4, 1997 Contact: NYNEX - Boston, John Johnson, (617) 743-3677 or your local NYNEX PR contact; C-TEC Investor Relations, Valerie Haertel, (609) 734-3816 NYNEX Reaches Agreement with RCN Telecom Services To Interconnect Telephone Networks in New England BOSTON (Feb. 4, 1997) -- NYNEX announced today that it has signed new interconnection agreements in Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont with RCN Telecom Services, a subsidiary of C-TEC Corporation. The agreements are designed to help meet the requirements for NYNEX's entry into long-distance. The new agreement expands on similar arrangements NYNEX reached with RCN for New York in September and Massachusetts in October to connect the companies' networks. "This brings us much closer to realizing the opportunities envisioned by the Telecommunications Act, including the development of a robust wholesale market for communications services throughout New England," said Jack Goldberg, NYNEX Vice President - Wholesale Markets. "The agreements further demonstrate that when someone is ready to be a new local telephone company they can get what they need from NYNEX. Unlike others, whose interests also lie in protecting their current markets from NYNEX competition, RCN is fully committed to bring competition to this market." NYNEX has been engaged in negotiations with more than 40 telecommunications carriers in order to complete interconnection agreements designed to open local telephone markets to competition. Opening those markets is one of the requirements for NYNEX's entry into long-distance in the Northeast. NYNEX has signed 19 comprehensive interconnection / resale agreements with competitors in its home territory to date. NYNEX is a global communications and media corporation that provides a full range of services in the northeastern United States and high-growth markets around the world, including the United Kingdom, Thailand, Gibraltar, Greece, Indonesia, the Philippines, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. The corporation is a leader in telecommunications, wireless communications, directory publishing and video entertainment and information services. NYNEX is also managing sponsor of FLAG -- Fiberoptic Link Around the Globe -- the world's longest undersea fiber optic communications cable. FAX copies of recent NYNEX news releases are available free of charge, 24 hours a day. Call 1-800-331-1214 and an automated system will provide instructions. go to news archive