Telecom retail today announced a major new service - free and exclusive to all Telecom internet customers Yahoo!Xtra Bubble.

Scheduled to launch in the coming weeks Yahoo!Xtra Bubble will offer a suite of premium services accessed through a personalised homepage all at no extra cost.

Telecom's Adrian Littlewood said Yahoo!Xtra Bubble is the first such offering in the NZ marketplace.

"Yahoo!Xtra Bubble is effectively a VIP area for Telecom internet customers. We expect strong uptake from both existing and new customers.

"The service will act as a compelling differentiator and a great reason for customers to be with Telecom," Mr Littlewood said.

Yahoo!Xtra Bubble's premium features include; a personalised home page with best of breed email storage, online photo storage and sharing with Flickr Pro, a 1GB online briefcase, and to launch shortly an all-in-one free security suite featuring Norton AntiVirus, the world's top selling anti-virus software.*

"Yahoo!Xtra Bubble is an exciting package, we are delighted to be able to offer all of our Telecom broadband and dial-up customers a range of fully loaded, value added services for free."

Mr Littlewood said the Yahoo!Xtra initiative has enabled Telecom to access and package up some of the best online products and services available.

"Yahoo!Xtra Bubble reflects the constant evolution in how New Zealanders use the internet, particularly people's growing desire to personalise their internet experience and the demand for increased storage capacity and improved online security.

"At a retail level Telecom has invested a significant amount into Yahoo!Xtra Bubble, with an ongoing yearly commitment," Mr Littlewood said.

With the introduction of Yahoo!Xtra Bubble, the more than 600,000 Telecom internet subscribers will be moved from the Xtra email platform to a Yahoo! hosted service. For more information and registration details customers can visit www.yourbubble.co.nz

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For further information please contact:

Lenska Papich
Telecom PR
09 359 5804
0274 885142
lenska.papich@telecom.co.nz

YAHOO!XTRA BUBBLE FEATURES

Yahoo!Xtra Bubble is free and available to all Telecom dial-up and broadband customers. Yahoo!Xtra Bubble features include:

CUSTOMISED HOME PAGE: A personal homepage with customisable news, entertainment and information from a choice of over 300,000 content sources.

PREMIUM EMAIL: best of breed storage capacity, increased spam protection and up to 10 additional mailboxes.

INTEGRATED MESSAGING: With Yahoo!Xtra Messenger via customers Xtra email address.

PHOTO SHARING: Flickr Pro has loads of upload capability and storage to store photos in high resolution.

ONLINE STORAGE: An online briefcase with 1 gigabyte of storage to store documents and access from almost anywhere at anytime.

• Top-selling anti-virus software product from December 2000 through March 2007 based on the NPD Group's retail Top Selling Business Software list.

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