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BroadSoft Selected by BellSouth To Deliver IP Applications And Services To Business Customers

BroadSoft's BroadWorks Helps BellSouth Enhance Its Comprehensive Voice over IP Portfolio

CHICAGO, IL - SUPERCOMM, June 21, 2004 - BroadSoft, Inc., the leading provider of network communications platforms, today announced that BellSouth (NYSE: BLS) has selected the BroadWorksâ network communications platform for its network-hosted VoIP deployment. The BroadWorks platform currently is supporting BellSouth's network-hosted trial offering announced in June.

Designed to provide BellSouth's business customers greater control and flexibility in customizing and managing their communications needs, BroadWorks will provide extended hosted communications capabilities, delivering enhanced voice and data applications in a secure corporate network environment. These capabilities will enable businesses to increase employee productivity both in and out of the office.

"BellSouth is enhancing its network to deliver next generation services, such as VoIP, to its customers and continues to work with technology leaders to facilitate this transformation," said Eric Schwartz, BellSouth vice president of IP Communications. "BroadSoft is a part of BellSouth's network evolution and helps enable voice and data converged applications for our business customers."

Michael Tessler, president of BroadSoft said: "BellSouth is an innovation leader, recognizing the opportunities that converged, IP-based business services bring to customers who must take their productivity to ever-higher levels in order to succeed. BroadSoft has harnessed its market leadership and extensive experience serving incumbent carriers to support BellSouth in creating bottom line and top line value for its business customers through the deployment of IP-based services."

BroadSoft's BroadWorks provides a comprehensive range of applications including hosted PBX, network-hosted VoIP, residential broadband, and the latest in collaborative conferencing fully integrated into a single network communications platform. More than 60 service providers worldwide have selected the BroadWorks platform from BroadSoft, with more than 400,000 licenses shipped.

BroadSoft will demonstrate its latest version of the BroadWorks platform at SUPERCOMM 2004 in Chicago, IL at booth number 11747.

ABOUT BELLSOUTH
BellSouth Corporation is a Fortune 100 communications company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia and a parent company of Cingular Wireless, the nation's second largest wireless voice and data provider.

Backed by award winning customer service, BellSouth offers the most comprehensive and innovative package of voice and data services available in the market. Through BellSouth AnswersSM, residential and small business customers can bundle their local and long distance service with dial up and high speed DSL Internet access, satellite television and Cingular® Wireless service. For businesses, BellSouth provides secure, reliable local and long distance voice and data networking solutions. BellSouth also offers online and directory advertising through BellSouth® RealPages.comsm and The Real Yellow Pages®. More information about BellSouth can be found at www.bellsouth.com.

ABOUT BROADSOFT
BroadSoft is the leading supplier of network communications platforms to service providers and channels in the enterprise and residential markets. BroadSoft's flagship product, BroadWorks, provides a comprehensive range of applications including Hosted PBX, IP Centrex, residential broadband and collaborative conferencing, fully integrated into a single platform. The company has the largest customer base in its space worldwide, including BellSouth, MCI, SingTel and Telstra. BroadSoft is located near Washington, DC, in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and maintains a research and development facility in Montreal, Canada. Additional information can be found at www.broadsoft.com.

For further information contact:

BroadSoft:
Hilary Tomasson
+1 (240) 364-5147
htomasson@broadsoft.com

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