New Edge Networks Celebrates 10 Years with $10,000 Donation to Food Bank

VANCOUVER, Wash., June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- New Edge Networks, the business
communications unit of EarthLink Inc., (Nasdaq: ELNK), marked its 10-year
anniversary in the telecommunications industry on June 21, 2009. To help
commemorate this milestone, New Edge employees raised more than $10,000 and
donated over 500 pounds of food for the Oregon Food Bank.

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Today, EarthLink Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Rolla P. Huff presented
a check for $10,656.75 to Barbara Peschiera, Development Director of The
Oregon Food Bank. New Edge employees raised the money and food during a
"Battle of the Sexes" fundraising drive won by the women's team through a
raffle, bake sale, auction, cash donations and other events.

"We are extremely proud of the New Edge employees who worked hard to raise a
significant amount of money for a well-deserved local charitable organization,
and did it in a way that built team work and camaraderie," said Huff. "New
Edge has a tradition of challenging peers to inspire community service and we
can think of no better way to mark the company's 10 year anniversary."

Oregon Food Bank Development Director Barbara Peschiera expressed the
organization's appreciation to New Edge commenting, "Grassroots fundraisers
like the New Edge employee food drive take on an even greater importance in
these tough economic times. We thank the employees of New Edge along with
their friends and families for supporting our mission to fight hunger in
Oregon and Southwest Washington."

Today's donation presentation was part of a week of activities coordinated to
celebrate New Edge Network's decade of success. This year, New Edge will
recognize the 10 year service anniversaries of 19 of its nearly 300 employees
who have been with the company since its first year of inception.

"Over the past decade, New Edge has established itself as a leader in IP
product innovation over a nationwide and MPLS-based network," added Huff.
"With last week's announcement of Cardi Prinzi becoming the new President of
New Edge, we are very excited about its future prospects as it heads into its
next decade."

New Edge Networks was founded in 1999 and installed its first broadband
communications system in Vancouver, Wash. By June 2000, New Edge had completed
a national facilities-based backbone ring and data communications network,
providing broadband service to more than 400 U.S. locations. In November,
2000 New Edge acquired West-Net, Inc. to jump start its foray into advanced
broadband services such as frame relay, Wide Area Networking, and LAN-to-LAN
internetworking. In February 2002, the company purchased AtWork assets and
commercial customers to launch dedicated high speed Internet access in 28
metropolitan areas. EarthLink, Inc. acquired New Edge Networks in April 2006
with New Edge Networks operating as a wholly-owned subsidiary.

About New Edge Networks
New Edge Networks builds and manages private IP-based wide area networks that
do not use the public Internet. Connecting business sites at virtually any
address in the United States, New Edge allows businesses to choose any blend
of available access technologies - from DSL and T1 lines to fiber-optic
connections - for building private and secure MPLS networks with performance
guarantees. A wholly owned subsidiary of Atlanta-based EarthLink Inc.,
(NASDAQ: ELNK), New Edge is based in Vancouver, Wash. For more information
visit www.newedgenetworks.com or call 1-360-693-9009.

About Oregon Food Bank
Oregon Food Bank is a nonprofit, charitable organization. It is the hub of a
statewide network of 919 hunger-relief agencies serving every county in Oregon
as well as Clark County, Washington. Oregon Food Bank recovers food from
farms, manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, individuals and government
sources. It then delivers that food to 20 regional food banks across Oregon.
Sixteen are independent charitable organizations. OFB directly operates four
regional food banks which distribute food weekly to more than 340 food
pantries, soup kitchens, shelters, and other programs helping low-income
people in Multnomah, Clark, Clackamas, Washington, Harney, Malheur and
Tillamook counties. Oregon Food Bank also works to eliminate the root causes
of hunger through advocacy and public education.

SOURCE New Edge Networks

Michele Sadwick, 1-404-748-7255, sadwick@corp.earthlink.net