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AT&T And Intuit Enable Consumers to View and Pay Their AT&T Bills Online.


Business Editors and High-Tech Writers

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 29, 2000

Online Bill Presentment See EBPP.  Service Allows Millions of AT&T Long Distance

Customers to View and Pay Bills through Quicken and Quicken.com

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:INTU INTU Intuit, Inc. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ) today announced that AT&T's consumer customers are now able to view and pay their AT&T residential long distance bills online through Quicken(R) and on Quicken.com, Intuit's leading e-finance Web site. The addition of AT&T to Intuit's online billing service offers consumers a fast and convenient way to pay their AT&T residential long distance bill through Quicken and Quicken.com.

Through Intuit's Web-based billing service, which uses CheckFree's E-Bill service, millions of AT&T's customers are now able to easily manage their bills using the same personal finance tools many consumers use to manage the rest of their financial lives. Consumers can sign up for this service on Quicken.com at www.Quicken.com/bills or can get more information on accessing this service through Quicken at www.intuit.com/bills.

"Consumers are rapidly embracing e-finance and are ready for the speed, convenience and ease of use made possible by receiving and paying bills online," said Mark Goines, senior vice president of Intuit's consumer division. "Intuit is excited to team with a leader like AT&T to provide best-of-class online billing functionality to consumers nationwide."

Using Intuit's online billing service in Quicken and on Quicken.com, AT&T residential long distance customers are now able to view a summary of their bill and simply click to download the bill amount and due date into Quicken or click to pay the bill through Quicken.com. Quicken and Quicken.com bill summaries provide users with a link to AT&T's online billing site, where the entire AT&T bill can be reviewed in detail. Users can then review previous AT&T bills, sort their calls, request credit for questionable calls, use AT&T Anywho(R) to find information on calls, update their AT&T account, order new services and submit e-mail inquiries to customer service - all from the comfort of their computers.

"More and more of our customers are visiting att.com and opting to do business with us electronically," said Michael Tempora, vice president of AT&T consumer billing strategy. "They like the control, flexibility and cost savings of online billing and online customer service. By offering bills online through Quicken and Quicken.com, together we provide an attractive alternative to sitting down and writing out bills every month."

Intuit's Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment See EBPP.  Service

Intuit's new EBPP (Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment) Sending invoices to customers over the Internet. When payment is due, an e-mail is sent with a link to a Web page that contains the billing information and the payment services that are supported.  service is the first Web-based bill presentment and payment See EBPP.  service to provide a central point of access for consumers to view, track and pay all their bills from the same site they use to manage the rest of their financial lives. Using this service, consumers can also pay anyone in the U.S. and will soon be able to view any of their other bills online, whether they originate as electronic or "hard copy" paper bills.

Intuit has been supporting online bill payment and presentment through Quicken since 1997 and last year launched its comprehensive Web-based service on Quicken.com and will soon offer it on other portals. Intuit's bill payment and presentment service is part of My Accounts, a new suite of services that allows consumers to view and manage their finances anywhere using a Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . My Accounts is a personalized financial "dashboard" that allows consumers to view and pay all their bills, manage multiple investment portfolios and view credit card and bank account balances -- all from a single Web site.

In addition to the AT&T residential long distance bill, Quicken and Quicken.com customers can "pay everyone" including all monthly bills through services provided by participating financial institutions and payment providers including CheckFree. Intuit is a participant in the CheckFree Guarantee Program that limits consumer liability and protects against unauthorized transactions or processing delays. Intuit offers electronic bill presentment and bill payment services through Quicken.com and other portals pursuant to a license agreement between Intuit Inc. and a joint venture company in which Intuit is a participant.

About Intuit

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 for consumers and small businesses. Intuit develops and markets QuickBooks(R), the most popular small business accounting software; Quicken(R), the leading personal finance software; and TurboTax(R), the best-selling tax preparation software. An innovator in delivering Web-based financial tools, Intuit is the leading provider of online tax preparation and filing and online mortgages. Intuit is also breaking new ground as a leader in online bill presentment and payment, and in the delivery of its QuickBooks Internet Gateway (1) See cable/DSL gateway.

(2) A router or server that converts IP packets to IPX, AppleTalk or some other non-IP format and vice versa. It is used to connect non-IP networks to the Internet.
 platform of connected e-services for small businesses.

Intuit's Quicken.com(TM) Web site (www.quicken.com) is a leading financial site, offering a comprehensive set of financial news, information and tools, including insurance, mortgage, investment and tax preparation services Tax preparation services

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. Intuit's products and services enable individuals, small businesses and financial professionals to better manage their financial lives and businesses.

About AT&T

AT&T Corp. is among the world's premier voice and data communications data communications, application of telecommunications technology to the problem of transmitting data, especially to, from, or between computers. In popular usage, it is said that data communications make it possible for one computer to "talk" with another.  companies, serving more than 80 million customers, including consumers, businesses and government. With annual revenues of more than $53 billion and 151,000 employees, AT&T provides services to customers worldwide. Backed by the research and development capabilities of AT&T Labs, the company runs the world's largest, most sophisticated communications network The transmission channels interconnecting all client and server stations as well as all supporting hardware and software.  and has one of the largest digital wireless networks in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . The company is a leading supplier of data and Internet services for businesses and offers outsourcing, consulting and networking-integration to large businesses. It is also the nation's largest direct Internet access See how to access the Internet.  service for consumers. Through its recent cable acquisitions, AT&T will bring its bundle of broadband video, voice and data services to customers throughout the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Internationally, the AT&T/BT Global Venture - recently named Concert - will serve the communications needs of multinational companies and international carriers worldwide.

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