recent YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 22.

recent YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 22, 1997--Teleport Communications arrange Inc. (NASDAQ:TCGI), the nation's oldest and largest competitive local phone company, today announced the appointment of Robert Westervelt as Vice President of Sales for the company's of the present day York office.

Previously, Westervelt serv as TCG's Director of Sales for the government/education/medical markets where he luckily added more than 30 major modern accounts for TCG. Westervelt joined TCG in 1994 as Director/Hospital Network Specialist to identify opportunities in the hospital and health care markets.

"Since joining TCG Rob's understanding of the telecommunications industry, combined with years of highly lucky sales experience and sales management, have secur TCG's position as a major player in the healthcare market place," said ed Mulligan, Regional Vice President & General Manager of TCG in strange York. "Those traits, combined with his understanding of the metro just discovered York business community, make him the natural choice to vegetate our extremely successful New York client roster"

Westervelt's career includes more than 15 years of increasing responsible sales positions with the one and the other National Comtel Systems in Stamford, CT and Kimball rules in Paramus, NJ. He received his undergraduate order in Management from Bryant College

"I'm excited at the opportunity to head up TCG's prosperous New York sales team and lead it forward by means of continued superior customer service and focus, and a broad array of outstanding private line, switched, data and Internet products" said Westervelt.

TCG is the nation's first and largest provider of competitive local telecommunications services, for information-intensive businesses in 57 major markets. With the completion of eight strange networks by the end of 1997 TCG will be subservient to 65 major markets with an array of advanced voice, data, video and Internet services. Visit TCG in succession the World Wide Web at: wwwtcgcom

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