Office Depot Launches New ‘Wireless Office Service’

DELRAY BEACH, Fla., Oct. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Office Depot , a leading global provider of office products and services, today announced the availability of its new Wireless Office Service. The Office Depot Wireless Office Service enables small and medium-sized businesses to centralize all employee phone numbers (whether in-office, cell phones or home office numbers) with one single main number — giving customers faster, easier access to anyone in the company. Wireless Office Service is powered by AccessLine Communications, a provider of hosted and managed voice services exclusively for the business marketplace.

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In this age of wireless technology, the Wireless Office Service takes the virtual office one step further, allowing not just individual phones, but entire phone systems, to go wireless. The service provides a business with one main phone number that immediately connects all members of the organization and aggregates individual employee cell phone numbers and land lines under one umbrella.

Wireless Office Service — How It Works

With Wireless Office Service, when a customer or employee calls the business number, he or she is greeted with a menu of options, and immediately directed to the person, department or information they need, without having to know individual phone numbers or extensions. The service easily reaches every employee, even when they are working in different physical locations, or using a cell phone, work phone or other phone. Callers also have the option of going back to the main menu to reach other members of the company without making another call. In addition, Wireless Office Service allows employees using multiple cellular phone carriers to easily share important voicemail messages with each other.

Business Continuity Feature

Wireless Office Service from Office Depot features an important Disaster Recovery capability, which is a standard part of the service. If a business is located in an area where its local phone company service or cell phone service has been disrupted or its main landline number is not functioning, the business phone number can be seamlessly redirected to through Wireless Office Service to a landline phone, cell phone or another phone anywhere in the country, without changing the phone number. This enables a business to continue with minimal disruption to its customers or employees needing to communicate with each other.

“Wireless Office Service is an exciting new service that offers business customers a viable alternative to the costs and infrastructure involved with setting up a phone system,” said John Lostroscio, Vice President of Merchandising for Office Depot. “A phone system for a small office, even one that is limited to the ‘four walls’ of a physical office, can be prohibitively expensive to purchase, install and maintain. With Wireless Office Service, a business gets next generation features and functionality, seamless wireless integration, no maintenance contract, and unlimited local calling.”

During Office Depot’s 19th Anniversary sale, users can subscribe to unlimited Wireless Office Service for as little as $90.95 a month. Details are available at Office Depot stores or online at http://officedepot.telecomsvc.com/wireless .

About Office Depot

With annual sales approaching $14 billion, Office Depot provides more office products and services to more customers in more countries than any other company. Incorporated in 1986 and headquartered in Delray Beach, Florida, Office Depot conducts business in 23 countries and employs 47,000 people worldwide. The Company operates under the Office Depot(R), Viking Office Products(R), Viking Direct(R), Guilbert(R), and Tech Depot(R) brand names.

Office Depot is a leader in every distribution channel — from retail stores and contract delivery to catalogs and e-commerce. With $3.1 billion in online sales in FY’04, the Company is the world’s number three Internet retailer. As of June 25, 2005, Office Depot has 1,011 retail stores in North America in addition to a national business-to-business delivery network supported by 22 delivery centers and more than 60 local sales offices. Internationally, the Company conducts wholly-owned operations in 14 countries through 76 retail stores and 26 distribution centers, and operates 153 retail stores under joint venture and license arrangements in another seven countries.

The company’s common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol ODP and is included in the S&P 500 Index. Additional press information can be found at: http://mediarelations.officedepot.com/ .

About AccessLine

AccessLine Communications provides hosted and managed VoIP services for large and small businesses nationwide. The company offers a complete set of easy to implement, cost-effective managed voice services, available via either traditional phone or VoIP networks and through nationwide local access. With a customer base of more than 100,000 business users, AccessLine provides unprecedented application quality, functionality and customer support. AccessLine recently won the “Pulver100″ Award for top VoIP growth companies, and the “Red Herring 100″ award for the best 100 private companies in America. For more information, please visit http://www.accessline.com/ .

The term “Wireless Office Service” describes the service of providing wireless-related telecommunication application services in an office environment. Neither AccessLine Communications nor Office Depot claim any trademark or service mark rights in the descriptive phrase “Wireless Office Service.”

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CONTACT: Mindy Kramer, Office Depot, +1-561-438-4276, ormkramer@officedepot.com; or Rachel Berry, Sterling PR, +1-253-853-5030, orrberry@sterlingpr.com, for AccessLine

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