NEW YORK, September 21, 2000 - Verizon Online now offers consumers in markets across the country a Web-based e-mail service powered by Mail.com, Inc., (NASDAQ: MAIL), a leading global Messaging Service Provider for businesses and end users. Verizon Online is the online division of Verizon Communications, the national telecommunications company formed by the merger of GTE and Bell Atlantic (NYSE: VZ). The partnership brings together Mail.com's reliable, feature-rich and scalable WebMail architecture and Verizon's state-of-the-art telecommunications network, to provide consumers access to e-mail anytime, anywhere online.
The Verizon Mail service offers a feature-rich, reliable e-mailbox with a "@VerizonMail.com" address. Users can send and receive e-mail from any computer connected to the Internet and take advantage of convenient features like an address book, an online help section and the ability to file e-mail in custom folders. Customers can access the Verizon Mail WebMail site at www.VerizonMail.com, and from links on www.Verizon.net, www.GTE.net and home.bellatlantic.net. Mail.com currently provides the WebMail service for users of both the former GTE and Bell Atlantic Internet Access services, now combined to form Verizon Online.
"Verizon Online customers demand high reliability and quality of service, which was a key driver behind our decision to expand our relationship with Mail.com to include the Verizon Mail.com feature," said Alex Coleman, vice president and general manager of Verizon Online. "Mail.com's WebMail service provides our customers with the 'anywhere, anytime' e-mail access they require, and neatly complements our company's extensive selection of communications solutions."
"The opportunity to work with Verizon Online, a company whose leadership in meeting the telecommunications needs of home, business, and government customers is unmatched in the marketplace, is a tremendous opportunity to provide an ever-expanding customer base with the best in Internet Messaging services," said Courtney Nichols, president-Mail.com Personal Communications Services.
About Mail.com Personal Communication Services
Mail.com's Personal Communication Services (PCS) provides reliable and scalable e-mail and related messaging solutions to Web sites, ISP's, carriers and consumers around the world. Mail.com serves the high-end market with a full service ASP solution, which includes 24/7 customer service and an industry leading full service ad network. Mail.com's top-branded Web site partners include NBCi, CBS SportsLine and C-NET. Mail.com also partners with several of the world's top Internet Service Providers. Internet marketers offer products and services to Mail.com's significant network of users though online advertising, Mail.com's e-commerce site and Mail.com's permission-marketing platform. PCS also offers serves the consumer market directly through the Mail.com flagship site at www.mail.com.
About Mail.com
Mail.com Inc. is a one-stop resource for Internet messaging services, providing reliable feature-rich e-mail and Internet fax services to businesses, ISPs, Web sites and direct to consumers through its flagship Web site: http://www.mail.com. Mail.com has a technology infrastructure of IP network facilities in 20 key countries and currently serves more than 18 million seats and 9,000 corporate customers worldwide.
About Verizon
Verizon Online is an Internet access service offered by Verizon Internet Services Inc., and GTE.net LLC, which together comprise the retail online division of Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ), which was formed by the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE. Verizon's Internet division is one of the world's leading providers of broadband and dial-up Internet access services. Verizon companies are the largest providers of wireline and wireless communications in the United States, with more than 100 million access line equivalents and 25.6 million wireless customers. A Fortune 10 company with more than 260,000 employees and approximately $60 billion in 1999 revenues, Verizon's global presence extends to 40 countries in the Americas, Europe, Asia and the Pacific. For more information on Verizon, visit www.verizon.com.
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