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United Online Selects Sprint for Dial-Up Internet Access Service

Posted on: Thursday, 13 May 2004, 06:00 CDT

OVERLAND PARK, Kan., May 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Sprint today announced a multi-year agreement with United Online, Inc. a leading provider of value-priced Internet-access services, to provide Dial Internet Protocol Services. Specific terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Based in Westlake Village, Calif., United Online has built a customer base of over 5.4 million subscribers through its NetZero, Juno and BlueLight Internet brands as of March 31, 2004. With its services available in more than 6,500 cities across the United States and in Canada, United Online turned to Sprint for a top-quality network that had the necessary coverage and support it needed.

"Sprint offers a high-quality network infrastructure with excellent support and has proven to be one of the easiest providers to do business with," said Henry Kim, Vice President, Telecom Services, United Online, Inc. "Sprint enables us to offer top-quality connectivity to our customers through a highly scalable network customized to meet the needs of our user base."

"United Online is truly a leader in the value-priced Internet provider space, and Sprint is proud to play a part in enabling its ability to offer a high-quality service," said Kevin Kunkel, area vice president -- West region, Sprint Business Solutions. "The ISP environment is very competitive and United Online continues to maintain an edge on its competition by working with quality partners such as Sprint."

About Sprint

Sprint is a global integrated communications provider serving more than 26 million customers in over 100 countries. With approximately 65,000 employees worldwide and over $26 billion in annual revenues in 2003, Sprint is widely recognized for developing, engineering and deploying state-of-the-art network technologies, including the United States' first nationwide all-digital, fiber-optic network and an award-winning Tier 1 Internet backbone. Sprint provides local communications services in 39 states and the District of Columbia and operates the largest 100-percent digital, nationwide PCS wireless network in the United States. For more information, visit http://www.sprint.com/ .

About United Online

United Online, Inc. is a leading provider of consumer Internet subscription services through a number of brands, including NetZero and Juno. The company's pay services include Internet access, accelerated dial-up services, premium email, and personal Web-hosting and domain services.

It also offers consumers free Internet access, email and Web hosting. The company's access services are available in more than 6,500 cities across the United States and in Canada. United Online is headquartered in Westlake Village, CA, with offices in New York City, San Francisco, CA, Orem, UT, and Hyderabad, India. For more information about United Online and its Internet subscription services, please visit http://www.untd.com/ .

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CONTACT: David Gunasegaram of Sprint, +1-913-794-3450,david.j.gunasegaram@mail.sprint.com ; Peter Delgrosso of United Online, Inc.,+1-805-418-2388, pdelgrosso@corp.untd.com

Web site: http://www.sprint.com/http://www.untd.com/

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