Acquisition

365 Corporation PLC 15 November 2000 365 Corporation plc acquires assets of Ringback Communications Limited and RBC Services Limited for £570,000 365 Corporation plc (365), the digital media and communications company, announces that it has acquired the assets of Ringback Communications Limited and RBC Services Limited (together Ringback) for a cash consideration of £570,000. Both companies have been involved in the sale of voice and data hardware, related installation and the provision of support and maintenance services to small and medium sized businesses for the past 11 years, and bring with them a contracted customer base of 506 in the North London area. This acquisition has been made as part of 365's Business Division's ongoing strategy to become the leading UK provider of multiple telecommunications services to the SME market, and builds on the recent acquisitions of Compass Technical Services, Essential Voice and Data, Systematic Telecoms and Phones Express. 365 will continue to seek further complimentary acquisitions to accelerate the execution of these plans. Ringback management Richard Stretch, John Murphy and Martin Hough are to enter into long-term service contracts with 365 to further develop 365's Business Division in the South East of England. Commenting on the acquisition, Dan Thompson, Chief Executive Officer of 365, said: 'We are delighted at the acquisition of these assets which will expand our customer base in the South East. We feel that the breadth of experience being brought to us by the incoming management of Ringback will further enhance the capability of our Business Division to provide first class telephony sales and support services to both existing and new customers. We look forward to welcoming the Ringback team and working with them.' Enquiries: 365 Corporation plc Martin Turner, Finance Director Mark Jones, MD Business Division Tel: 01442 283300 www.365corp.com Financial Dynamics Tel: 020 7831 3113 Fiona Meilklejohn Ben Atwell 365 Corporation plc (www.365corp.com) Consumer Division 365's consumer division provides high quality digital content across three different categories - lifestyle, sport and entertainment. Each of these in turn, have several different content services, which are accessible to consumers on a multi platform basis (internet. mobile phone, fixed line. TV, PDA etc). - Sport Football - www.footba11365.com (English), www.futbol(365.com (Spanish), www.footba11365.fr (French). www.soccer365.com (North American soccer biased content). International.football365.com - a dedicated service, covering international footbal. Cricket - www.cricketline.com (a leading site for International cricket), www.cricinfo365-com (daily e-mail publication in joint venture with Criclnfo) Rugby - www.planet-rugby.com, a market leading online rugby resource including breaking news and unique statistics, www.rugby365.com (produced in four language versions - English, French, Spanish, Afrikaans), www.rugbyrugby.com (North American rugby website). Racetips - www.racetips365.com, a site dedicated to Horse Racing giving the inside track on news, form and the horses to follow). Formula 1 - www.planet-fl.com (English) www,francais planet-fl.com (French), www.deutech.planet-fl.com (Dutch), www.espanol.planet-fl.com, (Spanish), Italiano.planet-fl.com (Italian), website featuring news, features and a searchable archive of every race in F1 history. Sports Overview - www.sportszine.co.uk - complete guide to sport on the Internet through a searchable database of over 40,000 individually reviewed websites, www.sportonair.com - UK's first dedicated sports audio website with hourly news, features and interviews, www.livesport.com - mult-sport website. - Entertainment Music - www.music365.com (English), www.music365.fr (French).- reviews of albums and singles, interviews with artists and personalities and topical stories, on-line chat forum, on-line shopping facilities for concert tickets, CDs and videos. Competitions - www.win365.co.uk - a cross-platform competition based product. Games - www.trivia365.com - a network of live, multiplayer trivia games where users can compete in real time against anyone else in the world on a variety of topics including television, education, history, entertainment and sport and win prizes. 365Television - www365television.com, the first production, a documentary on boxer Mike Tyson's UK. fight, was commissioned by BBC Choice and recently aired on BBC Choice and BBC2. - Lifestyle Companionship - www.personals365.com, an on-line companionship product, www.theswitch.co.uk, a multi-platform product using the web and telephone for chat. Future - www.future365.com - a site dedicated to covering the past, present and future Gardening - www.gardening365.com Gay - www.gay365.com Advisory services - telephone-based services to users. 365 provides telephone lines and systems and Infogenie procures the advisory services, currently for legal services and veterinary services. Business Division (www.symphony.com) 365 acquired its Business Division as part of the purchase of Symphony Telecommunications plc (Symphony Telecom) in February 1999. Its focus is to act as a 'one-stop-shop' and single point of contact for all of its customers' communications requirements. Increasingly, this includes the provision of internet-related applications and solutions. www.business365.co.uk - designed to give SME's within the UK quick and easy access to the facts and communication services they need to help run their business. Business365 draws on Symphony's resources to provide independent, Interactive business solutions, Telephone systems - 365 sells and maintains a range of telephone systems and related solutions. Fixed-line resale - 365 provides branded fixed line telecommunications services and chooses to route traffic over a selection of blue chip carriers including Energis and Viatel. It also provides non-geographic numbers (premium, national and local rates) and routes ISDN traffic Mobiles - 365 sells mobile handsets, airtime and ongoing support to SME's via the Cellnet: or Vodafone mobile networks. Internet services - 365's internet products include network access devices, ISDN-2-dial-up, web hosting and web design services.

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