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Covad offers high-speed broadband services to 11 more communities

Covad Communications Group, Inc. (OTCBB: COVD), a leading national provider of integrated voice and data communications, today announced completion of the company’s Network Expansion Initiative in Atlanta, Georgia, making digital subscriber line (DSL), frame access, and T1 broadband services available to more homes and businesses. Now, the Atlanta communities of Adamsville, Ben Hill, College Park, Covington, Dallas, East Point, Forest Park, Gainesville, Griffin, Morrow, and Riverdale, have access to Covad’s broadband services.

Under Covad’s Broadband Network Expansion Initiative strategy, Covad has successfully increased broadband accessibility by over 21 percent in the area. An additional 256,000 local households and 20,000 local businesses now have increased choice and availability of broadband services. Covad also has pre-existing broadband services available to over 1.2 million homes and businesses in the cities of Acworth, Alpharetta, Atlanta, Austell, Buford, Carrollton, Cartersville, Chamblee, Clarkston, Conyers, Cumming, Decatur, Douglasville, Duluth, Dunwoody, Fayetteville, Jonesboro, Loganville, Lilburn, Lawrenceville, Lithonia, Marietta, Norcross, Newnan, Panola, Peachtree City, Powder Springs, Roswell, Smyrna, Snellville, Stone Mountain, Stockbridge, Tucker, and Woodstock.

"We are strategically growing Covad’s national network to enable Covad and our partners to deliver broadband services to tens-of-thousands more homes and businesses in the Atlanta market," said Charles Hoffman, president and chief executive officer of Covad. “We will continue to look for innovative ways to provide an alternative choice for broadband in the Atlanta market.”

Covad offers residential and business-class DSL, T1, Voice Over IP, managed security, hosting, and bundled voice and data services directly through Covad and wholesale through partners, value-added resellers, telecommunications carriers and affinity groups. Covad owns and operates the largest national DSL network, reaching more than 45 million U.S. homes and business in 96 of the top Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs). This network expansion will give Covad the ability to reach nearly 50 million homes and businesses in more than 100 of the top Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) by the end of the third quarter of 2004. As a supplement to Covad’s national broadband network, the company also provides business-class broadband services to an additional 139 less populated MSAs through a partnership with New Edge Networks.

Covad's DSL network enables ISPs and CLECs to partner with Covad for their broadband needs. A growing number of companies nationwide including AT&T, AOL, EarthLink, Sprint, Speakeasy, MCI, MegaPath and XO, work with Covad to power their consumer and business broadband offerings.

For more information on Covad broadband services in the Atlanta area, contact Covad directly by visiting www.covad.com or by calling 1-800-636-3500.