Verizon Online Offers Broadband Toolbar for Small-Business Customers and AT&T Adds New Monitoring and Reporting Features to Its Hosting Solutions Port

12 February 2007

Telecommunications industry news provided by Financial News USA (OTC: FNWU). Verizon Online (NYSE:VZ) has further enhanced the Verizon Business Center portal by adding a robust toolbar, designed specifically for small-business broadband customers. The new toolbar provides quick and easy access to a variety of online business content, search functions and important resources. The Verizon Broadband Toolbar for Businesses is a free application and takes only seconds to download at http://business.verizon.net/toolbar. Richard Notebaert will take over July 1 as chairman of the University of Notre Dame's board of trustees. Notebaert is chairman and CEO of Qwest Communications International Inc. (NYSE: Q), a Baby Bell that provides local telephone service in 14 states, including Colorado. Notebaert, who has served as one of the 10-member board of trustees for the past 10 years, was elected Friday to a three-year term as chairman.

AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) recently announced new industry-leading global features for AT&T Enterprise Hosting Services that are designed to give customers more choices in the way they monitor and manage their hosting environments. Highlighting the new features is a patent-pending dashboard that gives network and applications managers a vibrant and holistic view of the current health of their hosted environments through advanced graphical monitoring capabilities. U.S. Starcom (OTC: USTA) is pleased to announce that it has expanded the scope of its recently announced stock buyback to six million shares, from the previous four million shares announced by the company on November 8, 2006. The company has already consummated agreements for the private market purchase of over four million shares, and feels it will have another one million shares purchased in private and open market transactions over the next sixty days.

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