Digex Announces Special Promotional Offer to Transition Businesses As Hosting Market Consolidates [9th June 2003]

LAUREL, Md., Jun 9, 2003 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- Digex, Incorporated, a leading provider of enterprise hosting services, announced today a special promotional offer for organizations seeking to transition to Digex from other hosting providers or from internal corporate data centers. Digex has the expertise to quickly and seamlessly migrate e-business applications and infrastructure from one environment to another. The promotion offers assistance and incentives to ease the transition to our professional hosting environment within any Digex SmartCenter(R).

Digex Enterprise Hosting offers businesses a high-performance, ready-to- run operations environment specifically designed for business-critical Web sites, enterprise applications and secure Web Services. Digex's comprehensive service platform provides Information Technology (IT) departments with extraordinary agility and cost advantages while leveraging the company's economies of scale, skill and highly automated management and monitoring infrastructure. All Digex hosting solutions are supported by the unrivaled reach, performance and reliability of MCI's facilities-based global IP network.

The 'Empower Your Enterprise' promotion includes project management assistance, migration services, and short-term use of equipment at no charge. The company recognizes that lowering total cost of operations (TCO) is a top priority for businesses today; therefore, additional special pricing discounts are included to further offset migration impacts and associated expenses.

The 'Empower Your Enterprise' Promotion includes:

* Digex Migration Assistance. Digex will provide project migration
consultation at no charge to the customer;

* Digex No-Downtime Offer. Digex will provide a short-term production
environment during migration to support an uninterrupted migration at no
cost;

* Digex Lower TCO Incentives. Sign a 12-month contract for Digex
Enterprise Hosting and customers receive a credit equal to one month's
recurring hosting services fee; Sign a 24-month or 36-month contract and
receive an additional one or two month credit, respectively.

* Digex No-Risk Guarantee. At anytime within the first six months of
partnering with Digex, customers can freely elect to terminate their
contract;

* Flexible Financing Options. Digex Financial Services offers custom
financing options to cover related expenses and any necessary additional
equipment.

"Our 'Empower Your Enterprise' promotion will help businesses take advantage of enterprise hosting faster," said Bobby Patrick, chief marketing officer at Digex. "This is a great incentive to help companies leverage our experience and value. Digex has been providing hosting services for businesses for more than 10 years, longer than any other hosting provider. And, last month we were the only hosting provider listed in the 'Leaders' quadrant in Gartner, Inc.'s 2003 North American Web Hosting Magic Quadrant* for the third year in a row."

"This offer is especially useful for C&W hosting customers, given the company's announcement last week to exit the U.S. market," continued Patrick. On June 4, 2003, Cable and Wireless said in a company issued press release referring to their U.S. Operations: "Both hosting and IP services are businesses which have limited interaction with the rest of the Group and are not central to our plans ... It is our intention to withdraw from the U.S. ..."

The 'Empower Your Enterprise' promotion starts today and runs through September 30, 2003. For more information contact Digex directly at 1-888-88- DIGEX or visit our web site at www.digex.com/promotions.

About Digex

Digex (OTC Bulletin Board: DIGX) is a leading provider of enterprise hosting services. Digex customers, from Fortune 1000 companies to leading Internet-based businesses, leverage Digex's trusted infrastructure and advanced services to successfully deploy high-performance Web sites, mission- critical enterprise applications and secure Web Services on the Internet. Additional information on Digex is available at www.digex.com.

About the MCI-Digex Affiliation

The MCI-Digex affiliation strategically combines the custom managed Web and application hosting expertise of Digex with the shared, dedicated and colocation hosting technologies of MCI (WCOEQ, MCWEQ) to offer businesses of all sizes the full continuum of secure, dependable hosting services. Powered by the reach and reliability of the facilities-based MCI global network, the MCI-Digex affiliation rapidly delivers scalable, high-availability outsourced solutions that enable companies throughout North America, Europe and Asia to better focus on their core business.

Terms & Conditions:

1) Enterprise Hosting Services must be installed within 90 days of contract signature, but no later than December 31, 2003.

2) For new enterprise hosting customers only or for existing enterprise hosting customers installing an entirely new hosted application.

3) Monthly recurring charges for the first full month of service will be credited back to the customer after the first 90 days of service, provided the customer account is in good standing. One-time charges are excluded from this offer.

4) Short-term production environment equipment is subject to availability.

5) Additional termination charges may apply toward the pay-off or reduction-in-costs of any hardware or software purchased as a part of any service agreement.

This promotion is subject to the terms and conditions of any applicable agreements. Digex reserves the right to modify or withdraw this promotion at any time.

* The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted May 2003 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission, which permission should not be deemed to be an endorsement of any company or product depicted in the quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is Gartner, Inc.'s opinion and is an analytical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It measures vendors against Gartner defined criteria for a marketplace. The positioning of vendors within a Magic Quadrant is based on the complex interplay of many factors. Gartner does not advise enterprises to select only those firms in the "Leaders" quadrant. In some situations, firms in the Visionary, Challenger, or Niche Player quadrants may be the right matches for an enterprise's requirements. Well-informed vendor selection decisions should rely on more than a Magic Quadrant. Gartner research is intended to be one of many information sources including other published information and direct analyst interaction. Gartner, Inc. expressly disclaims all warranties, express or implied, of fitness of this research for a particular purpose.

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CONTACT: Media: Nicole Fachet of Manning, Selvage and Lee, +1-212-213-7140, or nicole.fachet@mslpr.com, for Digex, Incorporated, or Investors: Tania Almond of Digex, Incorporated, +1-240-456-3800, or tania.almond@digex.com.

SOURCE Digex, Incorporated

Media: Nicole Fachet of Manning, Selvage and Lee,
+1-212-213-7140, or nicole.fachet@mslpr.com, for Digex, Incorporated, or
Investors: Tania Almond of Digex, Incorporated, +1-240-456-3800, or
tania.almond@digex.com