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                                                                    EXHIBIT 99.1

      CTC COMMUNICATIONS GROUP, INC. ANNOUNCES VOLUNTARY CHAPTER 11 FILING


         WALTHAM, MA, October 3, 2002 -- CTC Communications Group, Inc. and its
main operating subsidiary, CTC Communications Corporation (the "Company" or
"CTC") today announced a voluntary Chapter 11 filing in the United States
Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. The filing allows CTC to operate
in the normal fashion under court protection while it reorganizes its business
and continues discussions with its major creditors and other parties in interest
on the terms of a comprehensive restructuring.

         Concurrently with developing a stand-alone plan of reorganization, CTC
is continuing its discussions with certain of its existing institutional
investors and other parties toward potential investments of new capital or a
sale of the Company.

         CTC also announced that it has reached an agreement with its secured
lending group to enable CTC to utilize its cash to fund operations during the
Chapter 11 case, and CTC believes that it has sufficient cash to pay its
obligations throughout the reorganization process. The Company anticipates that
it will complete its restructuring and emerge from Chapter 11 as expeditiously
as possible, during the first half of 2003.

         The filings by the Company state that, as of July 31, 2002, on a
consolidated basis, the Company had assets of approximately $307 million and
liabilities of approximately $394 million. The Company's assets consist
primarily of its telecommunications networks, including its Cisco Powered IP+ATM
packet network (the CTC PowerPath(R) Network), and its telecommunications, data
center and web hosting customers. The Company's liabilities of $394 million
include primarily borrowings under its $225 million secured revolving credit
agreement from a syndicate of banks and other lenders, capital lease obligations
of $104 million, and unsecured trade liabilities to telecommunications providers
and others.

         CTC's filing was precipitated by the overall deterioration in the
telecommunications market, coupled with the inability of competitive
telecommunications service providers like CTC to access the financial markets to
fund growth and expansion capital.

         "Today's Chapter 11 filing enables CTC to restructure its debt and
other financial obligations of the business," commented Michael Katzenstein,
recently appointed interim CEO of CTC and a Principal of the restructuring and
crisis management firm CXO, L.L.C. "We will continue operating and supporting
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customers, and have on hand the cash and other resources that we believe will be
sufficient to take us through the Chapter 11 process."

         Richard Santagati, Chairman of the Company's Board of Directors, said,
"The Chapter 11 reorganization process allows CTC to preserve the value of its
business and continue providing first-class service to its customers. We believe
we have embarked on a course of action that will benefit our customers,
suppliers, creditors, and employees."

         CTC also reported that as part of its comprehensive restructuring
process it had this week eliminated over 300 positions throughout the Company
and that it had initiated the process of consolidating operations into 14
branches. "These actions make CTC financially stronger and more self-sufficient.
They improve CTC's ability to continue to offer its full range of
telecommunications services and to provide excellent and responsive service to
customers" Katzenstein said.

         In addition to the retention of CXO, the Company has retained the
investment banking firm of Miller, Buckfire Lewis & Co., L.L.C. to assist in
capital markets activities, and the law firms of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue in
New York and Young, Conaway, Stargatt & Taylor in Delaware.

ABOUT CTC

CTC is a "next generation" Integrated Communications Carrier utilizing advanced
technology and providing its customers with converged voice, data, Internet and
video services on a broadband, packet-based network, called the PowerPath(R)
Network. The Company serves medium and larger business customers from Virginia
to Maine, which includes the most robust telecommunications region in the
world--the Washington D.C. to Boston corridor. CTC's Cisco Powered IP+ATM packet
network and its top-tier sales and service teams provide contiguous marketing
and technology coverage throughout the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States. The
Company, through its dedicated commitment to exceptional customer service, has
achieved an industry-leading market share in the Northeast. CTC can be found on
the worldwide web at www.ctcnet.com.


SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT

The statements in this press release that relate to future plans, events or
performance are forward-looking statements that involve risk and uncertainties
that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in the
forward-looking statements including the ability to obtain needed capital,
including any required consents of lenders, lessors, and preferred stockholders
and any necessary restructuring of indebtedness, the attainment of EBITDA
positive, free cash flow and net income positive results, improved margins,
network and fiber deployment plans and schedules, revenue growth, resale

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customer movement to the network, network applications and services development
and deployment, financial results, operating metrics expectations, reduced
operating costs, and the effects of the current economic conditions. Readers
are, accordingly, cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking
statements. Additional information about these risks and uncertainties is set
forth in the Company's most recent report on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q. CTC
undertakes no obligation to release publicly the results of any revisions to
these forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect results, events or
circumstances after the date hereof.