Frontier Set to Use Alliance Apps for Business ISP Services

Computergram International, August 9, 1999

Frontier Communications Corp said last month it would moving into the lucrative business ISP market and today will announce a partnership with the Sun-Netscape alliance which brands itself I- Planet these days. It looks as if Frontier will use the Sun- Netscape web and internet software as the basis of IP applications, including email, messaging, calendar, scheduling, voice, fax and others for the outsourcing product it is calling applications networking services.

Frontier says it has lined up one enterprise hardware vendor and one enterprise software vendor. The messaging technology, which will be the first application available, is supposed to arrive in the fourth quarter. Frontier is in the process of being acquired by Global Crossing Ltd in an $11.2bn deal that was announced in mid-March.

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