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365 Corporation PLC 29 November 2000 365 SIGNS EXCLUSIVE 12 MONTH SPREAD BETTING DEAL WITH SPORTING INDEX 365 Corporation plc ('365'), the leading digital media and communications company, announces a major spread betting deal with Sporting Index. The 12-month deal commencing next month, means Sporting Index will become the exclusive spread betting provider to users on the 365 network allowing access to sports and financial spread betting content and services. Under the terms of the deal, 365 will receive a guaranteed fee every quarter with additional revenues dependent upon new accounts and ongoing betting activity. Sporting Index and 365 will also continue to work together on joint marketing and content opportunities, taking advantage of the synergies in their respective products and users. Through a co-branded site, 365's users will be able to sign up for a spread betting account, receive special marketing offers and promotions exclusive to 365 users, look at dedicated content designed to help increase the enjoyment of betting and get advice on how and what to bet on. There will also be an exclusive telephone number set up for 365 users to place their bets. Sporting Index will promote their spread betting services to 365's 2.4 million users, through a co-branded site. Sporting Index will also market 365's sites to their existing customer base of 25,000. In return, 365 will receive a fixed fee for every new 365-user opening an account, a percentage of stakes placed, as well as a fixed fee every quarter. Sporting Index and 365 will also work together using 365's unique content to create new betting markets. The deal is the next stage in 365's betting strategy to deliver a full range of betting services and content to its 2.4 million users, predominately through partnerships with market leading betting and gaming companies. Deals already announced include an exclusive fixed-odds tie up with Sportingbet.com on 365's football products, including Football365. 365 Corporation Chief Executive Officer, Dan Thompson said: 'Sporting Index is a leader in the spread betting market. The integration of their services and our content ensures the development of a significant online betting proposition, as well as establishing new audiences to both parties.' Sporting Index Director, Lindsay McNeile said: 'Our new relationship with 365 Corporation is a major step for us in our programme of building alliances with leading international new media companies. We believe our products are a natural enhancement to the rich content of the 365 sites and we are confident that this will be a lasting and successful venture.' For Further Information Please Contact: Dan Thompson, Chief Executive Officer 365 Corporation plc 020 7505 7800 Fiona Meiklejohn, Ben Atwell Financial Dynamics 020 7831 3113 Lindsay McNeile, Director 020 7960 6324 Sporting Index Julian Barkes, Marketing Manager 020 7960 6877 NOTES FOR EDITORS 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.football365.com (English), www.futbol365.com (Spanish), www.football365.fr (French). www.soccer365.com (North American soccer biased content), international.football365.com - a dedicated service, covering international football. Cricket - www.cricketline.com (a leading site for International cricket), www.cricinfo365.com (daily e-mail publication in joint venture with CricInfo) 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). Motorsports - www.planet-f1.com (English) www.francais planet-f1.com (French), www.deutsch.planet-f1.com (Dutch), www.espanol.planet-f1.com, (Spanish),italiano.planet-f1.com (Italian), website featuring news, features and a searchable archive of every race in F1 history. Rally365.com (English), site that covers news from the world rally championships, and other domestic rally events. 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 - multi-sport website. www.olympics.livesport365.com - dedicated service, covering all the events at Sydney 2000 * 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. Broadband365 - a standalone unit producing a number of programs using audio, video and other 'interactive' products for broadband digital productions. These productions will be available through a number of different mediums, such as websites, and interactive TV platforms. * 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. With its head offices in Hemel Hempstead, England, it continues to trade under the Symphony brand. 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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