"This recognition from XO Communications is the punctuation mark on an outstanding year" stated Adam Edwards, president of Telarus, Inc. "The award came from the combined efforts of our agents, our sales support staff, and the awesome two-tiered support structure XO has in place for our agents. As XO continues to work with us to automate quoting of its new IP portfolio, we'll continue to reap the huge advantage of knowing where their services are available and at what price point."

"XO has big plans for 2008" added Tom Gorey, Director of XO Communications’ Business Partner Program. "As we add more products in more markets, we expect our top partners like Telarus to be able to hit the ground running with all of their automation and sales systems."

XO Communications is the proud co-sponsor of the annual Telarus Agent Conference in Las Vegas on March 10, 2008. During the conference Telarus agents will hear first hand from XO management regarding the release of XO's new IP-centric products and market expansion activities.

"We are very excited about our 2008 sales outlook with XO Communications" add Lance Akins, VP of Sales for Telarus, Inc. "New products such as Ethernet over Copper and SIP trunking will open doors to accounts that we previously wouldn't be able to touch. As we bring in new partners who specialize in larger enterprise solutions, Ethernet and SIP will be a natural fit. We are very excited about the future of our respective companies."

Telarus has been a master agent of XO Communications since 2003 and was their first partner to test and utilize their automated XML quoting system: Click2Quote.

"XO has been a great partner, allowing us to quote not only their lower end products such as data T1 and PRI, but now we're quoting Ethernet over copper in real-time, with SIP just around the corner" commented Andrew Morgan, VP of Internet Development for Telarus, Inc. "The investment XO has made in this technology (Click2Quote) has drastically improved our ability to make sales into their footprint."

"I would be remiss if I didn't congratulate all of our online marketing / referral partners who send us leads and our sales agents who close those leads" added Patrick Oborn, co-founder and VP of Marketing of Telarus. "Unlike some other agents you see in XO's top ten, we sold over $100,000 in new business with our own unique business model, without simply pooling our volume with other master agents - which makes this accomplishment even that much more meaningful and special to us."

About XO Communications

XO Communications, a subsidiary of XO Holdings, Inc., is a leading provider of 21st century communications services for businesses and communications services providers, including 50 percent of the Fortune 500 and leading cable companies, carriers, content providers, and mobile operators. Utilizing its unique and powerful nationwide IP network and extensive local metro networks and broadband wireless facilities, XO offers customers a broad range of managed voice, data and IP services in 75 metropolitan markets across the United States. For more information, visit www.xo.com.

About Telarus

Telarus is a premier master agency whose goal is to make agents more successful than they can be on their own or with any other master agency. Telarus provides agent tools, automation, and superior support in an atmosphere of cooperation and ethical community. One example of the tools Telarus provides its agents is real-time voice and data price quoting through its patent-pending GeoQuote technology. GeoQuote makes it possible for business shoppers to access instant pricing and availability information for over 30 broadband data and voice service providers which include ACC Business, AireSpring, AT&T, Cavalier, Covad, Level3, MegaPath, Network Innovations, NewEdge Networks, Nuvox, PAETEC, One Communications, PowerNet Global, Qwest, TelePacific, Telnes, Time Warner Telecom, UCN, and XO Communications.