BuySafe.com Opens New High-Speed Internet Stores On @Home Network.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 17, 1999--BuySafe.com, a leading operator of private-label Internet stores, and @Home Network (Nasdaq:ATHM), the leading provider of broadband Internet services via the cable infrastructure, today announced the grand opening of new stores on the @Home service featuring flowers, gifts, and music.

Under the terms of the agreement, the stores will be anchor tenants on @Home's shopping channel for flowers, gifts, and music, and will be featured through contextual links in @Home's editorial content. The stores also will be promoted in @Home's "Category Spotlight" section and through broadband advertisements on the service. @Home subscribers will have high-speed, "always-on" access to browse and purchase flowers, gifts, and music from BuySafe.com's large selection of items including more than 400 different flower arrangements, over 200 of BuySafe's most-popular gifts, and 200,000 CD and cassette titles.

Subscribers can order and receive fresh-cut, hand-delivered flowers, various gifts ranging from fragrances to espresso makers, and music titles in categories including rock, rap, jazz, classical, and new age. Leveraging @Home's high-speed network, they will be able to sample more than 200,000 audio clips from various titles. The new stores will provide 24-hour customer service and free standard domestic shipping to recipients. Subscribers also will have direct access to BuySafe.com's "Gift Finder" service, helping shoppers select items for specific holidays and categories including gender, age, gift type, and price.

"Ranging from graphically rich, high-resolution product images to high-speed ordering, @Home's broadband network infrastructure is making Internet shopping increasingly fast, convenient, and easy-to-use," said BuySafe.com President and Chief Executive Officer Aaron Day. "Our goal for these value-oriented stores is to make busy Internet shoppers feel exceptionally pampered."

"Effective product merchandising drives impulse purchases, presenting a significant opportunity for revenue growth," said Charles Moldow, vice president, @Media sales & marketing for @Home Network. "We feel our broadband platform and `always on' capability, teamed with BuySafe.com's superior merchant skills, will provide our users with a unparalleled avenue for flower, gift, and music purchases."

About @Home Network

Based in Redwood City, California, @Home Network (Nasdaq:ATHM) distributes high-speed, openly accessible Internet and Web services to residences and businesses using its own network architecture and a variety of transport options including the cable industry's hybrid-fiber coaxial infrastructure. The cable connection provides users significant increases in speed over conventional Internet services. Leveraging the "always on" attributes of cable, @Home allows for unique multimedia applications that go beyond current Web experiences. Individuals seeking additional information about availability and subscription can refer to the @Home Network Web site (www.home.net). Since its founding in 1995, @Home Network has reached affiliate agreements with eighteen leading cable companies-worldwide, including AT&T Broadband and Internet Services, Bresnan Communications Company, Cablevision Systems Corp., CasTel, Century Communications, Charter Communications, Cogeco Cable Inc., Comcast Corporation, Cox Communications, Garden State Cable, Insight Communications, InterMedia Partners, Jones Intercable, Lenfest Communications, Midcontinent Cable Co., Palet Kabelcom, Rogers Cablesystems Limited, and Shaw Communications.

About BuySafe.com

Founded in 1995, BuySafe.com (www.buysafe.com) is a leading operator of private-label Internet stores. Private-label Internet stores offer host site operators the advantage of instant e-commerce and profit with no investment in retail infrastructure. For BuySafe.com, private-labeling ensures high store traffic without heavy promotional expense. BuySafe has designed and implemented private-label stores for a growing number of popular Internet sites such as GeoCities, latimes.com and the E-greetings Network. Collectively, BuySafe's private-label stores can offer a selection of more than two million items, along with 24-hour customer service, free standard shipping within the continental United States and return options on all merchandise. Privately held BuySafe.com is headquartered in Cambridge, Mass.

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This press release contains forward-looking information within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and is subject to the safe harbors created by those sections. These forward-looking statements concern the anticipated results of the integration of BuySafe.com's services into the @Home service. Those results are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, including the uncertainty of whether subscribers will find BuySafe's services attractive or useful; and whether the integration of BuySafe's services into @Home service will generate revenues for the companies. Actual results may differ materially due to a number of factors, including: technological, operational, and financial challenges of developing an integrated service that subscribers find useful and compelling; the companies' ability to support this integrated service; the degree of customer and industry acceptance and support for the service; and the companies' ability to manage the service. The matters discussed in this press release also involve risks and uncertainties described from time to time in @Home's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In particular, see the risk factors described in @Home's Form S-3 Registration Statement filed on August 12, 1998 and in its Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 1998. @Home assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking information contained in this press release.