ADVISORY/NetZero and Juno Announce Strategic Merger.Business Editors ADVISORY...for Thursday (June 7) NOTE TO EDITORS: Multimedia Assets Available With This Story Include Graphics, Text News Releases --(BUSINESS WIRE) NetZero Inc. (Nasdaq:NZRO) and Juno Online Services Juno client software icon Juno is an Internet service provider based in the United States. It is a subsidiary of United Online, which also owns NetZero and Bluelight Internet Services. Inc. (Nasdaq:JWEB), two of the country's largest providers of Internet access See how to access the Internet. services, announced today that they have agreed to a strategic merger. The union is expected to create the nation's second-largest Internet access provider See ISP. (networking, company) Internet Access Provider - (IAP) A company or other origanisation which provides access to the Internet to businesses and/or consumers. (after America Online See AOL. , but substantially ahead of Microsoft, EarthLink and AT&T Worldnet), based on a combined total of more than 7 million active subscriber accounts as of March 2001. Billable services accounted for approximately 1 million of the active subscriber accounts of the two companies as of March 31, 2001. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?3168 This multimedia news story is for free and unrestricted use on your news information site (and for print or broadcast too). Visit http://www.newstream.com to download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. video, audio, text, graphics, and photos. If you have any questions about the story, or about Newstream.com, please write to us at info@newstream.com. |
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