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Frontier Communications Chooses Yahoo! for Co-Branded Home Page, Search and Toolbar

Posted on: Monday, 4 August 2008, 09:00 CDT

Frontier Communications Corporation (NYSE: FTR), one of the nation's largest rural local exchange carriers, today announced the launch of a new co-branded personalized home page with useful online services, search capabilities and robust content selections. The Frontier/Yahoo! co-branded home page is available at www.Frontier.My.Yahoo.com.

Through the Yahoo!-powered home page, users will soon have access to Frontier Mail using the Zimbra Collaboration Suite, complete with email, calendar, voice, instant messaging, documents and Web 2.0 technologies including tagging, self-organizing mailboxes, and advanced search capabilities. Zimbra, a Yahoo! company, is the leader in open source, next-generation email messaging and collaboration software.

Beyond next-generation collaboration technologies, the co-branded home page will include Yahoo!'s renowned search engine as well as news, weather and stock updates. The co-branded home page also provides one-click access to Frontier customer service, tech support, directory advertiser selection, online bill payment and many other convenient service features.

"By collaborating with Yahoo!, Frontier provides High-Speed users with an enhanced and expanded Web experience which truly sets us apart from other Internet service providers," said Melinda White, Senior Vice President, New Business Operations. "The new co-branded home page, serving as the Customer's entry point into the Internet, combines Frontier's personalized local services and community presence with Yahoo!'s best-in-class global online products. It's the best of both worlds."

Simply by going to www.Frontier.My.Yahoo.com, anyone can install the Frontier/Yahoo! toolbar, even if they live outside an area served by Frontier. The toolbar simplifies users' Web routines by providing quick access to Yahoo! Search as well as customizable buttons for a variety of online services, Frontier features, content and bookmarks.

"This partnership combines Frontier's valuable local services with Yahoo!'s leading personalized home page, downloadable Web toolbar, and email experience," said Jim Schinella, Senior Vice President, Corporate Partnerships, Yahoo!. "With our new Frontier/Yahoo! co-branded home page, we are pleased to deliver the best place for Frontier users to start on the Internet."

"As the leader in High-Speed Internet access in our markets, we know that the best tools, features and Internet partners are important to our customers," said Ms. White. "The co-branded Frontier/Yahoo! home page and toolbar are just a few examples of several new products we will be launching in the months ahead, including Frontier Mail powered by the Zimbra Collaboration Suite. It's an exciting time at Frontier."

About Frontier Communications Corporation

Frontier Communications Corporation (NYSE:FTR) was previously known as Citizens Communications Company. Frontier Communications is a full-service communications provider and the second largest rural largest local exchange telephone company in the country. Additional information about the company is available at www.frontieronline.com

This press release contains forward-looking statements that are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are made on the basis of management's views and assumptions regarding future events and business performance. Words such as "believe,""anticipate,""expect," and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements (including oral representations) involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such statements. These risks and uncertainties are based on a number of factors, including but not limited to: reductions in the number of our access lines and high-speed internet subscribers; competition from cable, wireless and other wireline carriers; greater than anticipated competition; general and local economic, business, industry and employment conditions on our revenues; our ability to effectively manage service quality; our ability to successfully introduce new product offerings, including bundled service packages; our ability to sell enhanced and data services in order to offset ongoing declines in revenue from local services, switched access services and subsidies; ongoing changes in the regulation of the communications industry; our ability to effectively manage our operations, operating expenses and capital expenditures, to pay dividends and to reduce or refinance our debt; adverse changes in the credit markets and/or in the ratings given to our debt securities by nationally accredited ratings organizations; bankruptcies in the telecommunications industry, which could result in potential bad debts; technological changes and competition on our capital expenditures and product and service offerings, including the lack of assurance that our ongoing network improvements will be sufficient to meet or exceed the capabilities and quality of competing networks; increased medical, retiree and pension expenses and related funding requirements; changes in income tax rates, tax laws, regulations or rulings, and/or federal or state tax assessments; the effects of state regulatory cash management policies on our ability to transfer cash among our subsidiaries and to the parent company; and our ability to pay a $1.00 per common share dividend annually, which may be affected by our cash flow from operations, amount of capital expenditures, debt service requirements, cash paid for income taxes (which will increase in the future) and our liquidity. These and other uncertainties related to our business are described in greater detail in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our reports on Forms 10-K and 10-Q and the foregoing information should be read in conjunction with these filings. We do not intend to update or revise these forward-looking statements to reflect the occurrence of future events or circumstances.

Source: Business Wire

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