Agreemt with Energis Comms

365 Corporation PLC 29 June 2000 365 Corporation announces major partnership with Energis 365 Corporation plc, the digital media and communications company, today announces a major three year agreement with Energis Communications Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Energis plc. A key component of this relationship will be the ability for 365 to take advantage of Energis' high quality broadband network without incurring the associated costs of network ownership. 365 will also benefit from improved service provision, access to Energis' extensive technical resources and the ability to take full advantage of further deregulation of the UK telecommunications market later this year. 365's Business Division has successfully worked with Energis over the past three years as its preferred supplier of high quality voice and data services, which forms part of 365's highly successful portfolio of telecommunication products for the SME marketplace. Turnover of the 365 Business Division increased by 48% during the fourth quarter of the last financial year, and continues to grow strongly. This relationship will also allow 365 to introduce a range of voice and data services to its large consumer base, complementing mobile and internet service offerings. As at April 2000, 365's Consumer Division had 1.8 million unique users. Dan Thompson, CEO of 365, said: 'Securing a strong telecom network partner is essential to meeting our future growth plans. This co-operation with Energis moves us from being a switchless reseller to having immediate access to Energis' suite of voice and data services, leveraging the qualities of the Energis national network with significant flexibility to meet customers' needs. We are delighted to be working with a company of Energis' standing and reputation.' Bob Taylor, Managing Director of Energis Communications Limited, said: 'We actively seek to grow our business relationships with customers like 365 to sell our voice, data and internet services to SME and Consumer customers. We are delighted to have strengthened our relationship with 365 who have proven ability to build large customer bases, and see this new agreement as a major opportunity for both companies.' For Further Information Please Contact: Dan Thompson, Chief Executive Officer 0207 505 7800 Martin Turner, Finance Director 01442 283 310 365 Corporation plc Fiona Meiklejohn, Ben Atwell Financial Dynamics 0207 831 3113 NOTES FOR EDITORS 365 Corporation plc (www.365corp.com) Consumer Division 365 creates and owns destination content assets. It earns revenues from providing access to its content; from providing third parties with access to its audiences; and from selling its own services to its audiences. It takes advantage of convergence by leveraging its content, brands and audiences across multiple channels, thereby minimising costs and maximising revenues. Destination content assets have been extensively developed within the areas of Sport, Entertainment and Lifestyle. Meanwhile My365 provides a common point for consumers to access 365's content, for 365's commercial partners to access its network audience and for 365 to promote its services to this audience. While 365 is best known for its internet sports sites, such as Football365, it is building a balanced portfolio of content assets. Complementing its content, 365 also provides an expanding range of commercial and community services, which are either integrated into specific content (such as betting services on Football365, or the sale of music CDs on Music365) or offered to the entire customer base through My365 (such as consumer telecoms services). 365 has found that building large audiences is key to maximising revenues from its various content services. Not only do large audiences command disproportionate advertising and sponsorship revenues, but they also create community content which, in turn, increases the audience and loyalty. 365 produces global content that is available in a number of key languages including English, French, Spanish, German and Italian. It has primary offices in the UK, France, Chile, South Africa and the USA, which are involved in creating foreign language services that have global reach, but local 'feel'. + Lifestyle Companionship - www.personals365.com (an on-line companionship product), www.theswitch.co.uk (a multi-platform product using the web and telephone for chat). Gardening - www.gardening365.com Advisory services - telephone-based services to users. 365 provides telephone lines and systems and Infogenie procures the advisory services, currently for legal services and veterinary services. + Sport Football - www.football365.com (English), www.futbol365.com (Spanish), www.football365.fr (French), www.talkfootball365.com (Football content on a cross platform basis via TalkFootball365, a telephone and Internet service). www.soccer365.com (North American soccer biased content), www.eurofinals365.com (a dedicated service, in five languages, covering the European Championships 2000). Cricket - www.cricinfo365.com (daily e-mail publication in joint venture with CricInfo), www.cricketline.com (a leading site for International cricket) Rugby - www.rugby365.com (produced in four language versions - English, French, Spanish, Afrikaans), www.rugbyrugby.com (North American rugby website), www.planet-rugby.com (a market leading online rugby resource including breaking news, unique statistics). Racetips: www.racetips365.com (a site dedicated to Horse Racing giving the inside track on news, form and the horses to follow). Formula 1: www.planet-f1.com (website featuring news, features and a searchable archive of every race in F1 history). Sports Overview: www.sportszine.co.uk (complete guide to sport on the Internet through a searchable database of over 40,000 individually reviewed websites), www.sportonair.com (UK's first dedicated sports audio website with hourly news, features and interviews). + Entertainment Music - www.music365.com (reviews of albums and singles, interviews with artists and personalities and topical stories, on-line chat forum, on-line shopping facilities for concert tickets, CDs and videos). Competitions - www.win365.co.uk (a cross-platform competition based product). Games - www.trivia365.com (a network of live, multiplayer trivia games where users can compete in real time against anyone else in the world on a variety of topics including television, education, history, entertainment and sport and win prizes). 365Television - The first production, a documentary on boxer Mike Tyson's UK fight, was commissioned by BBC Choice and recently aired on BBC Choice and BBC2. Business Division (www.symphony.com) 365 acquired its Business Division as part of the purchase of Symphony Telecommunications plc ('Symphony Telecom') in February 1999. Its focus is to act as a 'one-stop-shop' and single point of contact for all of its customers' communications requirements. Increasingly, this includes the provision of internet-related applications and solutions. With its head offices in Hemel Hempstead, England, it continues to trade under the Symphony brand. 365 believes that while small and medium-sized enterprises ('SMEs') want the benefits that new technology - and particularly the internet - can bring to their businesses, few have the knowledge or time to implement a successful integrated communications strategy. 365's approach has therefore been to focus on understanding customer requirements, develop quality solutions with tangible customer benefits and build channels to market to deliver the necessary service and support. An important element of 365's strategy is recognition that the customer's telephone system (which is quickly converging with computer-based technologies) is the gateway product to the sale of additional value-added telecommunication and internet services. Control of the telephone system, through supply and ongoing maintenance, is central to 365's plans to maximise profit from its customer base and maintain customer loyalty. In order to gain fast access to large and established customer bases, 365 has supplemented its traditional sales efforts with a series of strategic joint ventures with a number of telephone system resellers across the UK. 356 has formed 11 such joint ventures.

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