Teleglobe unveils streaming of Milan fashion shows and pioneers the commercial 
applications for Content Distribution Services in Italy

Milan February, 23, 2001 – Teleglobe (NYSE, TSE: BCE), a leading provider of 
global communications and e-Business services, today announced its first 
commercial offering of content distribution services, demonstrating live audio 
and video streaming capabilities in Milan, Italy.  Teleglobe indicated that it 
will stream -live or on demand- a number of Italy’s Fashion Week shows, 
February 24 thru March 7, for FashionWeb.net, the leading international fashion 
portal for targeted web casting.  

“Teleglobe’s content distribution services illustrate how the Internet has and 
continues to evolve as a global vehicle that equips users with the resources to 
address a wide range of needs, increasing productivity, expanding choices and 
delivering the very latest information and entertainment,” said Lisa Donnan, 
Teleglobe’s President – United States Sales and e-Business Solutions.  “As the 
Internet continues to evolve, our content distribution capabilities will 
naturally expand.  These rich media management services bring new opportunities 
for businesses which are innovative and creative in their approach to 
communications.”  

Kataweb, a leading Italian news, audio and video portal, and Trip Multimedia, a 
leader in multi-media interactive communications, are also among Teleglobe’s 
initial customers for its streaming services. Internet content providers 
(ICPs), such as FashionWeb.net, Kataweb and Trip Multimedia, can now distribute 
content such as fashion shows, radio programming and other audio and video 
products to audiences worldwide. Other potential streaming applications include 
on-line trading, e-commerce as well as private radio and TV broadcasts.

ICPs can focus on creating content, while Teleglobe manages and operates a 
reliable global content distribution network. Teleglobe’s streaming media 
services support both live and on-demand content using Real, Windows Media 
Technology (WMT), or QuickTime formats.  

The company provides content delivery to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in 
more than 110 countries by deploying servers around the world, enabling end 
users to obtain local access to streamed content.

“We are using a new medium to reach out to a broader professional audience and 
better serve the fashion industry,” said FashionWeb.net CEO Corrado 
Ricciardi.  “With Teleglobe’s streaming media services, we have the ability to 
deliver rich images, present designer fabrics and illustrate how designs flow.  
This provides designers, retailers and the media new and improved methods to 
evaluate the designs and make selections.   The fashion industry is steeped in 
tradition, yet we can 
now use the most current technology to bridge the distance between these 
influential groups.  In essence, we can bring new collections to a much larger 
audience, in a controlled and targeted way as requested by the designers.” 

“Through Teleglobe we are now able to provide the first production center for 
streaming audio and video contents for WEB TV, general packet radio standard 
(GPRS), universal mobile telephone standard (UMTS) in Italy, said Paolo Monesi, 
Trip Multimedia’s CEO.  “Our service portfolio is now complete and oriented to 
meet the new communication and on line advertising needs, with sophisticated 
products and services for interactive multi-media communication.”

Teleglobe is also addressing the complex demands of the music industry, by 
streaming music files and a live radio station broadcast for Kataweb’s portal.  
Kataweb originates its audio signal locally in Milan.  Teleglobe receives these 
audio streams from Kataweb and delivers them to listeners throughout Italy and 
Spain.  The online radio station is a substantial part of Kataweb’s robust 
portal offering, which also includes e-commerce and advertising.

FashionWeb.net, headquartered in Milan, Italy, offers innovative web services 
that permit fashion industry professionals online access to shows and expects 
to offer intra-firm services on demand, such as remote training, confidential 
press conferences, video conferences, targeted advertising, financial 
reporting, store presentations, etc.  Given an exclusive agreements with the 
Italian “Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana” and the main international 
fashion houses, FashionWeb.net will be able to broadcast on the Internet 
fashion shows- live or on demand - available only to users certified by 
FashionWeb.net and selected by the Fashion Houses. Most of FashionWeb.net’s 
audience is in United States, Japan and Europe For more information, visit 
www.FashionWeb.net.

Kataweb, with approximately three million unique users and 253 million monthly 
page views as of January 2001, is among the most developed webcasting portals 
in Italy, both for its video and audio products.  Kataweb Radio is the major 
European Internet radio, with 80 specialized channels (10 of which are for 
ADSL). 95% of Kataweb is owned by Gruppo Editoriale L’Espresso S.p.A and 5% by 
Unicredito Italiano. La Repubblica, the second largest Italian  daily paper, 16 
local daily publications and three national radio stations - Radio Deejay, 
Radio Capital and Italia Radio - belong to the Gruppo Editoriale L’Espresso.  
For more information, visit www.kataweb.it

A leader in interactive multimedia communication, TRIP Multimedia Group is the 
first international “creative factory” for e-communication. Founded in Milan in 
1994 as a creative boutique by Paolo Monesi, a well known radio personality and 
multimedia advertising creator, and the company’s CEO; the company is a leader 
in the integration of radio and television post production processes, graphic 
design and web design technology. For more information, visit www.trip.it 	
								 
Teleglobe, an established and leading provider of global communications and 
Internet services, enables its customers to maximize the potential of the 
Internet through its delivery of  hosting services, content distribution and 
global connectivity.  With a maximum lit capacity of 10 million+ Gbps-miles, 67 
major POPs  and 400,000 square feet of next generation hosting facilities (year-
end 2001) Teleglobe is one of the world's largest international Internet 
backbone serving broad base of enterprise, ICP, ISP  and  carrier customers, 
Teleglobe is expanding its network with its GlobeSystem initiative, a multi-
billion dollar IP network and hosting deployment that will increase current 
capacity 200-fold and provide a robust platform for a portfolio of Internet and 
data services.  For more information, visit www.teleglobe.com.