Microsoft and Bandwidth.com Announce Response Point Collaboration

Bandwidth.com partnership with Microsoft Response Point empowers small
business telephony
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK and CARY, N.C., Sept. 24 /PRNewswire/ --- Bandwidth.com
and Microsoft Corp. have entered into a strategic marketing alliance agreement
to enable Response Point customers to take advantage of Bandwidth.com's
superior availability and quality. As the second largest internet provider of
business voice service in the U.S., Bandwidth.com offers industry-standard
Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) based phone lines that seamlessly provide
dial tone to small businesses using Response Point across one of the largest
and most advanced IP networks in North America.

"Bandwidth.com's advanced network capabilities and ubiquitous U.S. coverage
will greatly expand the IP service options available to Response Point
customers," said Xuedong Huang, general manager of Microsoft Response Point.
"Bandwidth.com's exceptional quality standards, focus on small businesses and
ability to deliver a complete IP-based solution will benefit our Response
Point customers from coast to coast."

"Bandwidth.com plans a nationwide roll out to train Microsoft's small-business
specialists, On-Line retailers and other value added Microsoft resellers on
the simplicity of connecting Response Point to Bandwidth's bundled voice
service portfolio this fall," said Jeff Uphues, VP of Sales, Partner Services
of Bandwidth.com. Further details on the roll out will be presented at the
SMB Nation 2008 conference in Seattle beginning on October 3rd.

"The combination of Microsoft's Response Point and Bandwidth.com's complete
communication offerings is the natural progression from product to solution,"
said David Morken, CEO and President of Bandwidth.com. "Leveraging our
respective competencies means the customer wins."

About Bandwidth.com
Bandwidth.com is a nationwide, complete business communications provider
offering advanced VoIP, SIP trunks, Internet and Managed Network Services to
small and medium businesses. The company delivers its services across one of
the most advanced networks in North America, and, backed by lifetime support,
has become one of the most trusted partners nationwide. Inc Magazine
recognized Bandwidth.com as the #1 fastest growing private telecommunications
service provider for the third year in a row.

About Microsoft
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in
software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their
full potential.

Bandwidth.com Press Contact
Samuel Schneider, 919.439.4724
sschneider@bandwidth.com

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Samuel Schneider of Bandwidth.com, +1-919-439-4724, sschneider@bandwidth.com