AT&T Interactive

DULLES, Va. and PASADENA, Calif., | Wednesday, June 08, 2005

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America Online, Inc., the world's leading interactive services company, and YELLOWPAGES.COM, the fastest growing Internet Yellow Pages distribution network, today announced an agreement to feature YELLOWPAGES.COM, SBC SMARTpages.com^® and BellSouth^® RealPages.com^® advertisers on AOL^® Yellow Pages.

Under the agreement, YELLOWPAGES.COM, a joint venture between SBC Yellow Pages and BellSouth Advertising and Publishing Corporation, will have advertiser listings integrated, hosted and displayed within the AOL Yellow Pages product carried across the AOL^® Service, AOL.com^® and the Netscape^® and CompuServe^® services. The agreement enables YELLOWPAGES.COM to provide added value to its large advertiser base by allowing them to reach more new customers. AOL Yellow Pages will gain superior advertiser content for their online yellow pages directory.

Jim Riesenbach, Senior Vice President, AOL^® Search and Directional Media Group, said: "We're committed to providing AOL audiences with the very best in local search and directory products and we're pleased to bring the YELLOWPAGES.COM advertiser content portfolio to our popular brands and services. YELLOWPAGES.COM shares our strong consumer focus, and by leveraging their high-quality assets we can enrich the AOL Yellow Pages product that's available across the AOL Network and even better meet the needs of online consumers who want to find local resources."

Charles Stubbs, President and CEO of YELLOWPAGES.COM, said: "This agreement is a significant milestone. YELLOWPAGES.COM is all about bringing buyers and sellers together, and this relationship strengthens the YELLOWPAGES.COM leadership position in local advertising. Additionally, we are proud to be associated with AOL and its strong brand. Our advertisers, with a single buy, will now be in front of millions of consumers through the fastest growing Internet Yellow Pages Distribution network in the industry."

Local search is a growth opportunity for directory publishers and a key growth sector of broader Internet search services like the one that AOL offers and provides through its Yellow Pages product. The Kelsey Group estimates that 70 percent of U.S. households today use the Internet as an information source when shopping locally for products and services.

AOL Yellow Pages is a popular online yellow pages product that provides listings and information for more than 13 million businesses and points of interest throughout the country as well as content from AOL^® CityGuide, the Web's number one local entertainment guide. YELLOWPAGES.COM advertisers' listings will supplement AOL Yellow Pages content, giving AOL's audience of tens of millions of consumers' access to the most comprehensive yellow pages data available on the Internet to quickly find local information where they live, work and travel throughout the country.