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To: TLindt who wrote (882)	5/6/1998 9:51:00 PM
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AT&T, Excite To Launch Online Service NEW YORK (Reuters) - AT&T and Internet media company Excite said they will launch "Excite Online Powered by AT&T WorldNet Service," a new online service that may rival a similar service run by Yahoo! Inc. and MCI Communications. Excite Online, set to open in June, will pair AT&T's WorldNet Internet access service with Redwood City, Calif.- based Excite's search and directory content. The service will prominently feature Excite's personalized "front-door" to the Internet. Members of the service, which will be "competitively priced, " will also receive special online access to AT&T personal communications services, the companies said. "The powerful combination of AT&T's Internet access service and penetration of the consumer marketplace, combined with Excite's leading Internet service, provide the opportunity to build the largest online service for accessing the Internet," George Bell, president and chief executive of Excite, said in a statement. In March, Yahoo! and MCI -- industry rivals respectively to AT&T and Excite -- unveiled "Yahoo! Online powered by MCI Internet." Similar online services are in the works by Internet information programmer CNET, paired with Sprint, and by Microsoft. This is the second major Internet deal this week for both AT&T and Excite. On May 5, Excite and Netscape Communications Corp. agreed to collaborate on Internet content and search services. And on May 4, AT&T and Lycos set a plan to offer Web- based consumer communications services and to sell AT&T offerings via Lycos' Web site.