ATX/CoreComm Continues Network Expansion With Purchase of State-of-the-Art Operations and Control Center in Philadelphia

ATX/CoreComm, a leading integrated communications provider, announced today that a subsidiary of CoreComm Holdco, Inc. (Nasdaq: COMMD) has acquired a fully-equipped, advanced switching facility in Center City Philadelphia. The multi-million dollar switch center was purchased at an extremely small fraction of its original price through a bankruptcy proceeding. The new center will supplement the Company's existing infrastructure in order to provide services to its expanding customer base.

New York, NY - July 10, 2002 - ATX/CoreComm, a leading integrated communications provider, announced today that a subsidiary of CoreComm Holdco, Inc. (Nasdaq: COMMD) has acquired a fully-equipped, advanced switching facility in Center City Philadelphia. The multi-million dollar switch center was purchased at an extremely small fraction of its original price through a bankruptcy proceeding. The new center will supplement the Company's existing infrastructure in order to provide services to its expanding customer base.

"With this tremendous addition, we're now poised for further growth," says Jeff Coursen, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of ATX's Commercial Division. "The site was a great opportunity for us to acquire best-of-breed equipment and premier space in what has been the region's leading site for carriers' network operations. This is the second example in the past month of our ability to capitalize on the challenges our industry has met by securing attractive yet distressed facilities at substantial cost savings."

The new center also enhances ATX's network assets and ability to maintain industry-leading reliability and service metrics.

"Our commitment to delivering the best customer experience in telecom is evident in our network control centers and personnel," says Coursen. "We're proud of these critical components of our business, and we regularly invite our customers and prospects to visit our facilities and learn about what makes us different."

ATX recently announced the acquisition of a fully-equipped, state-of-the-art voice, data, and LEC switching platform site in Herndon, VA through a similar proceeding, which enabled the Company to expand its facilities-based network throughout the southern states of Virginia and Maryland, and the District of Columbia.

In addition to the new facilities in Center City Philadelphia and Herndon, ATX has other Technology Centers (TCs) located in Philadelphia, Cleveland, Columbus, Chicago, Milwaukee, and East Lansing, MI, with each TC serving as the primary regional, customer-centric Network Operations Center (NOC) and Cleveland serving as the master Technology Management Center (TMC). All Centers are manned around-the-clock, 365 days-a-year with redundant and diverse back up, power distribution, and bandwidth facilities. Further, all Centers are backed up via the TMC for uninterrupted networking monitoring and management.

ATX's Presidential Command Center, located in Philadelphia, is a state-of-the-art facility designed to help proactively monitor the Company's entire network throughout its footprint by providing vision into all parts of its voice and data network, as well as allowing the Company to quickly respond to connectivity and CPE (Customer Premise Equipment) device issues. Certain elements and functions of the Command Center will migrate to the new Philadelphia facility in the coming months to further diversify the Company's network operations.

About ATX
Founded in 1985, ATX is a subsidiary of CoreComm Holdco, Inc., a facilities-based integrated communications provider offering local exchange carrier and inter-exchange carrier telephone, Internet, e-business, high-speed data, and wireless services to business and residential customers in targeted markets throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest regions of the United States. ATX/CoreComm currently serves approximately 400,000 business and residential customers. For more information on ATX, please visit www.atx.com.

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In addition to the historical information presented, this release also includes certain forward-looking statements concerning the future development of the business. Such statements represent the Company's reasonable judgment on the future and are based on assumptions and factors that could cause actual results to differ materially. The Company assumes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect actual results, changes in assumptions or changes in factors affecting such statements.

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