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Verizon Online Selects InfoSpace Platform to Deliver Comprehensive Set of Broadband and Dial-Up Applications and Services for Dynamic New Destination Pages InfoSpace's platforms of personalized services and applications to be available to more than one million Verizon Online DSL and dial-up customers nationwide
BELLEVUE, Wash. & NEW YORK, Sep 5, 2001 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- InfoSpace, Inc. (NASDAQ: INSP chart, msgs) and Verizon Online Services, the Internet group of Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ chart, msgs), today announced an agreement for InfoSpace to provide comprehensive broadband and dial-up platforms and applications to Verizon Online.
Verizon Online soon will introduce dynamic new destination pages, powered by InfoSpace, to its more than one million digital subscriber line (DSL) and dial-up customers nationwide.
"Today's announcement is a big win for InfoSpace in the broadband space and is an excellent example of our efforts to extend our infrastructure technologies to our partners in multiple business areas. In this case, Verizon, one of the world's leading providers of communication services, has partnered with InfoSpace on its wireless, merchant and now, ISP initiatives," said Naveen Jain, chairman and CEO of InfoSpace, Inc. "Our broadband services are designed to take advantage of the high-speed connections DSL providers, like Verizon, deliver to customers nationwide, as well as next generation wireless networks, especially the rollout of packet-based, GPRS networks by several wireless carriers in the U.S. this year."
"Our new destination pages will provide the foundation for the development of a richer, more exciting online experience for our dial-up and DSL subscribers," said Veronica Pellizzi, group president - Internet and data services for Verizon. "We are aggressively moving to expand upon our Internet access services by offering a compelling range of personalized, broadband-based value-added enhancements that will appeal to a vast spectrum of Internet users. This is a key part of our customer acquisition and retention strategy and we're excited about working with InfoSpace, a tested and proven partner of the most demanding providers in the wireline, wireless and ISP industries."
A new look for Verizon Online's destination pages is scheduled to debut in mid-September and will include new services and applications, with more to come over the coming months.
Some of the features InfoSpace will be supplying for Verizon Online's new destination pages include:
-- dynamic, rich, automatically updated flash and HTML
information;
-- streaming ticker featuring personalized headline news
capsules, stock quotes and sports scores;
-- media center, including up-to-the-minute streaming video and
audio clips for news, sports, entertainment, finance and
reference;
-- entertainment channel, including movie videos, trailers and
clips, as well as music downloads and Internet radio;
-- finance channel, including message boards, personalized
portfolio tracker and array of investing tools;
-- comprehensive news, sports, weather and shopping channels;
-- extensive multi-media search capabilities and reference
channel;
-- personalization services and integrated account management
tools;
-- platform of single and multi-player games
About Verizon Online
Verizon Online is a full-service Internet service provider, offering a complete suite of dial-up, DSL and dedicated Internet access services for residential consumers and small and medium-size businesses. Dial-up and dedicated Internet access from Verizon Online is available in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. DSL Internet access services are available in 28 states and the District of Columbia. Verizon Online also offers businesses a robust portfolio of Web hosting and outsourced Email services across the country. |
