VIATEL ENTERS EUROPEAN CLEC BUSINESSVIATEL ENTERS EUROPEAN CLEC BUSINESS

New York, NY - February 1, 1999 - Viatel, Inc. (Nasdaq: VYTL) - the owner, operator and builder of Europe's most advanced cross-border, fiber-optic broadband network - today announced that it has entered the European CLEC business - through a combination of self-constructed and swapped metropolitan fiber optic networks in London, Amsterdam, Paris, Berlin, Frankfurt and Dusseldorf as well as throughout the New York metropolitan area. Viatel is now able to link its pan-European, North American and trans-Atlantic broadband networks with high-speed local fiber networks to offer its customers a wide array of local and long-distance services over a single integrated network.

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