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Filed by NorthPoint Communications Group, Inc.
Pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act of 1933 and Deemed Filed Pursuant
to Rule 14a-12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Subject Company: NorthPoint Communications Group, Inc.
Commission File No. 000-29828
THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION WAS PLACED ON THE WEBSITE OF NORTHPOINT COMMUNICATIONS
GROUP, INC. BEGINNING ON AUGUST 8, 2000:
THE "NEW" NORTHPOINT
[LOGO OF VERIZON] [LOGO OF NORTHPOINT-]
[MAP APPEARS HERE]
. Metropolitan Statistical
Area (MSAs)
The combined operations of NorthPoint and Verizon will serve 163 MSAs,
passing approximately 63 million homes and businesses by the end of 2000.
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Major metropolitan areas covered by the combined operations of NorthPoint
and Verizon Year-end 2000
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Alabama Delaware Maine Nevada Oklahoma Utah
Dothan Dover Auburn Las Vegas Oklahoma City Provo
Wilmington Bangor Tulsa Ogden
Arizona Lewiston New Hampshire Orem
Mesa Florida Portland Manchester Oregon Salt Lake City
Phoenix Boca Raton Nashua Portland
Tucson Bradenton Maryland Portsmouth Salem Washington DC
Clearwater Baltimore Rochester
Arkansas Fort Lauderdale Pennsylvania Vermont
Texarkana Lakeland Massachusetts New Jersey Allentown Burlington
Miami Barnstable Bergen Altoona
California New Haven Boston Bridgeton Bethlehem Virginia
Bakersfield Orlando Brockton Hunterdon Carlisle Newport News
Fairfield Sarasota Fall River Jersey City Easton Norfolk
Fresno St. Petersburg Fitchburg Middlesex Erie Richmond
Lodi Tampa Lawrence Millville Harrisburg Petersburg
Lompoc West Palm Leominster Monmouth Hazleton Virginia Beach
Los Angeles Beach Lowell Newark Johnstown
Long Beach Winter Haven New Bedford Ocean Lancaster Washington
Napa Pittsfield Passaic Lebanon Bellevue
Oakland Georgia Springfield Somerset Philadelphia Bellingham
Orange County Athens Warwick Trenton Pittsburgh Bremerton
Riverside Atlanta Worcester Vineland Reading Everett
Sacramento Yarmouth Scranton Kennewick
Salinas Hawaii New Mexico State College Olympia
San Bernardino Honolulu Michigan Albuquerque Wilkes-Barre Pasco
San Diego Ann Arbor Santa Fe York Richland
San Francisco Illinois Detroit Seattle
San Jose Bloomington East Lansing New York Rhode Island Tacoma
Santa Barbara Chicago Flint Albany Fall River Vancouver
Santa Cruz Kankakee Grand Rapids Buffalo Providence
Santa Maria Normal Holland Dutchess County West Virginia
Santa Rosa Lansing Glen Falls South Carolina Ashland
Stockton Indiana Muskegon Nassau Myrtle Beach Charleston
Watsonville Elkhart Newark Rock Hill Huntington
Vallejo Fort Wayne Minnesota Newburgh
Ventura Gary Minneapolis New York Tennessee Wisconsin
Yolo Goshen St. Paul Niagara Falls Memphis Kenosha
Indianapolis Rome Madison
Colorado Lafayette Missouri Schenectady Texas Milwaukee
Boulder Terre Haute Columbia Suffolk Arlington Racine
Colorado Springs Kansas City Syracuse Austin Sheboygan
Denver Kansas St. Louis Troy Brazoria Waukesha
Fort Collins Wichita Utica Bryan Wausau
Greeley North Carolina College Station
Longmont Kentucky Chapel Hill Ohio Dallas
Loveland Lexington Charlotte Akron Denison
Louisville Durham Cincinnati Fort Worth
Connecticut Gastonia Cleveland Galveston
Bridgeport Louisiana Raleigh Columbus Houston
Danbury Baton Rouge Dayton San Angelo
Hartford New Orleans Nebraska Elyria San Antonio
Meriden Omaha Hamilton San Marcos
New Haven Lorain Sherman
Norwalk Middletown Texarkana
Stamford Springfield Texas City
Waterbury Toledo
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Major metropolitan areas covered by the combined operations of NorthPoint
and Verizon Year-end 2000
NorthPoint Communications Group, Inc. and Bell Atlantic Corporation (d/b/a
Verizon Communications) will file a joint proxy statement/prospectus and other
documents regarding the proposed business combination transaction referenced in
the foregoing information with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Investors
and security holders are urged to read the proxy statement/prospectus, when it
becomes available, because it will contain important information. A definitive
joint proxy statement/prospectus will be sent to stockholders of NorthPoint
Communications Group, Inc. seeking their approval of the proposed transaction.
Investors and security holders may obtain a free copy of the definitive joint
proxy statement/prospectus (when it is available) and other documents filed by
NorthPoint Communications Group, Inc. and Bell Atlantic Corporation (d/b/a
Verizon Communications) with the Commission at the Commission's web site at
www.sec.gov. The definitive joint proxy statement/prospectus and these other
documents may also be obtained for free by NorthPoint stockholders by directing
a request to: NorthPoint Communications Group, Inc., 303 Second Street, South
Tower, San Francisco, CA 94107, Attn: Investor Relations, (415) 403-4003, email:
[email protected].
Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995: The statements contained in this release which are not historical facts
may be deemed to contain forward-looking statements. Such statements are
indicated by words or phrases such as "anticipate," "estimate," "projects,"
"believes," "intends," "expects" and similar words and phrases. Actual results
may differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward-looking
statement as a result of certain risks and uncertainties. Some of these risks
and uncertainties include, without limitation: NorthPoint's dependence on
strategic third parties to market and resell its services, intense competition
for NorthPoint's service offerings, dependence on growth in demand for DSL-based
services, ability to raise additional capital, the inability to obtain, or meet
conditions imposed for, governmental approvals for the proposed merger with
Verizon Communications' DSL business, the failure of NorthPoint's stockholders
to approve the merger, costs related to the merger, the risk that NorthPoint's
and Verizon's DSL businesses will not be integrated successfully, the failure of
NorthPoint to realize anticipated benefits of the merger and other economic,
business, competitive and/or regulatory risks and uncertainties detailed in the
company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings. Prospective investors are
cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements. The
Company disclaims any obligation to update any of the forward-looking statements
contained herein to reflect future events or developments.
