URBANMEDIA SELECTS SCC COMMUNICATIONS TO MANAGE 9-1-1.(Company Business and Marketing)

SCC Communications Corp. (Nasdaq: SCCX ) has signed an agreement to provide data management services to support 9-1-1 access for clients of UrbanMedia. SCC is the country's leading provider of enhanced 9-1-1 (E9-1-1) database management services. UrbanMedia partners with property owners and managers across the United States to offer businesses personalized communications, including free Internet connectivity, managed e-mail, enhanced voice and data services, and e-business services that are delivered straight to the desktop.

SCC signed a five-year contract to supply UrbanMedia with its leading-edge TelConnectSM suite of services. TelConnect enables competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) such as UrbanMedia to provide customers with reliable access to E9-1-1 services. SCC manages the data that allows routing of 9-1-1 calls to the appropriate answering point and delivers accurate information about the caller's location. By outsourcing this critical task, CLECs can focus on entering the competitive communications marketplace quickly and effectively.

Mark Davis, UrbanMedia's vice president, engineering, said, "UrbanMedia' s contract with SCC will enable us to concentrate on a full range of communications services while knowing we are also offering the most reliable voice access to 9-1-1 emergency help."

"People today have access to more and more sophisticated communications channels, but when someone gets hurt or feels threatened, the link to 9-1-1 and the help it offers is what really counts," said Kim Reid, director of operations for SCC's CLEC business unit. "Our TelConnect services perform the complex and time-consuming tasks required to validate, correct, update and format customer data so that emergency services dispatchers are able to offer effective assistance to 9-1-1 callers."

UrbanMedia's services are available to companies in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas/Fort Worth, Jacksonville, Philadelphia, the San Francisco Bay Area and the Washington, DC-metro area. The company's e-business and communications solutions will support 12 markets by the end of 2000.

About SCC

SCC Communications Corp. (Nasdaq: SCCX) is a provider of 9-1-1 data management services to incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs), competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs), integrated communications providers (ICPs) and wireless carriers in the United States. SCC manages the data that allows routing of 9-1-1 calls to the appropriate answering point and delivers accurate information about the caller's location wit h the call. SCC provides 9-1-1 services to 15 leading wireless telecommunications carriers and 35 leading wireline telecommunications carriers. SCC currently manages the records for approximately 95 million wireline and wireless telephone subscribers, including 4.1 million CLEC subscribers, and 1.6 million revenue-generating wireless subscribers. The company also develops innovative, value-added information technology systems and software products for the public safety industry.

About UrbanMedia

UrbanMedia creates and manages a network of business customers through t he deployment of communications and commerce services. The company provides subscribers with comprehensive e-business solutions to the desktop, including dynamic content, e-commerce applications, and advanced voice* and data services. Affiliated with the nation's leading real estate in vestment trusts (REITs) and property owners and managers, UrbanMedia is the first service provider to deliver free broadband access-a service giving property owners and managers a valuable new amenity for their tenants. UrbanMedia's flagship real estate partners are Liberty Property Trust (NYSE: LRY), Jones Lang LaSalle (NYSE: JLL), Prentiss Properties (NYSE: PP) and Trammell Crow Company (NYSE: TCC). Collectively, these partners own or manage a total of 900 million square feet and support more than 4.5 million office users. Incorporated in June 1999, UrbanMedia was founded by executives from the @Home Network. (Nasdaq: ATHM).

For more information, visit http://www.urbanmedia.com (650)566-2384.

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