AT&T Unveils Suite Of Web Hosting Services For Small Businesses - Company Business and Marketing

Cambridge Telcom Report, Oct 11, 1999

AT&T Tuesday introduced a suite of online hosting services that make it easy and affordable for small businesses to launch a world-class web site, and announced a sweepstakes to recognize select "Entrepreneurs of the Millennium." Customers subscribing to AT&T Small Business Hosting Services (http://www.ipservices.att.com/sbh) will be automatically entered into the sweepstakes, and have an opportunity to win a year of free web site services.

AT&T Small Business Hosting enables customers to easily register a custom domain name, create and publish a Web site in minutes and manage their site through a user-friendly Web interface that's available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Three levels of service, starting at $25 a month, offer customers the ability to quickly and easily adapt their web hosting plan to meet the needs of their evolving business.

Additionally, AT&T is using an Electronic Business Center to provide "enterprise-level" support to its hosting subscribers. The Business Center, available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, provides account status, network and technical support, and tips on various topics including site maintenance and domain name management. The Business Center allows customers to adjust their website requirements right from their desktop, add Microsoft FrontPage server extensions, SSL form management, additional domain names pointing to the same web site and augment data transfer capacity, increase data storage and add additional e-mail accounts.

Additional features of the new offer include: * Sites reside on AT&T's OC-48 IP backbone, a 100-percent digital, fully redundant network., featuring caching and replication architecture for fast Web content delivery;

* Web access to account status information and billing;

* MyPage for Business Wizard site creation tool;

* Online ability to upgrade accounts and receive usage reports; and

* Flexible data transfer and storage allocations.

"Recently AT&T announced an aggressive buildout of Internet Data Centers to address the hosting needs of mid- and large-sized businesses," said Sandy Brown, vice president of AT&T Internet Services. "This offer rounds out AT&T's hosting portfolio and proves our commitment to help businesses of all sizes profit from the exponential growth in e-commerce."

Five winners of AT&T's Entrepreneur of the Millennium sweepstakes will be selected every month beginning December 1, 1999, through February 1, 2000. In addition to receiving free web site service for one year and other prizes, the winning entrepreneur's story will be publicized in a variety of AT&T's online customer publications and AT&T's Small Business website.

AT&T (http://www.ipservices.att.com/) is the world's premier provider of voice and data communications, with more than 80 million customers, including businesses, government and consumers. AT&T runs the world's largest, most powerful long-distance network and the largest wireless network in North America. The company is a leading supplier of data and Internet services for businesses and the nation's largest direct Internet service provider to consumers. AT&T also provides local telephone service to a growing number of businesses.