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To: Patricia Meaney who wrote (111901)1/9/2003 9:09:11 AM
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CHTR - Microsoft, Charter Ink MSN 8 Partnership

SEATTLE, Jan 08, 2003 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- Charter Communications Inc.
will offer its broadband Internet subscribers access to Microsoft's MSN 8
content in a partnership announced Wednesday evening.

Under the agreement, Charter Pipeline customers may sign up for access to MSN
8's Web-browsing tools and network of entertainment, news and financial Web
sites for $9.95 a month. The two companies will each get a share of the revenue,
but terms of the split were not released, MSN marketing director Bob Visse said.

The package will be available in the second quarter of 2003 and will be free for
the first two months.

In addition to expanded parental controls, junk e-mail filtering and
customizable Web-browsing features, MSN 8 includes specialized financial
information and other content available only to subscribers.

MSN offers customers both broadband and dial-up Internet access services as well
as a "bring-your-own-access" option in which customers with other carriers can
sign up for the software tools and content, similar to the Charter deal.

The announcement comes as MSN has embarked on an aggressive campaign to increase
its subscriber base - to those wanting Internet access, or those who just want
the software tools and specialized Web site access. With 9 million subscribers,
the company is trying to narrow the gap between it and industry leader America
Online, which has 35 million.

The deal expands on an existing agreement between the two companies in which
Charter subscribers are directed to a Charter-MSN home page when they log on to
the Internet.

St. Louis-based Charter, the nation's third-largest cable television company, is
controlled by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and has 6.7 million customers in
40 states.

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On the Net:

charter.com
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