EarthLink Launches EarthLink Email-by-Phone

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July 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- EarthLink today announced the launch of its EarthLink Email-by-Phone service. Email-by-Phone, which provides subscribers with convenient, on-the-go access to their EarthLink email, is the latest addition to EarthLink's comprehensive suite of value-added online services.

"Email-by-Phone provides subscribers with the freedom to access their EarthLink email without being tied to a PC," said Erika Jolly, EarthLink's vice president of value-added services. "EarthLink is committed to offering subscribers services that enhance their online experience -- in this case the flexibility to connect with their email anywhere, anytime."

The new service allows EarthLink subscribers to access to their email for only $4.95 per month -- whether traveling across town or across the country -- simply by dialing the toll-free number and following the voice prompts. EarthLink tapped AudioPoint ( http://www.audiopoint.net/ ), a speech applications company developing products for businesses that reach consumer markets, and Erogo ( http://www.erogo.com/ ), a leading provider of service revenue solutions, to help bring the Email-by-Phone service to EarthLink's 4.9 million subscribers.

"By teaming with these industry-leading application and back-end service providers, we're able to offer more benefits to an EarthLink subscription while remaining focused on our core business as an ISP -- providing fast, reliable Internet connections," Jolly added.

EarthLink Email-by-Phone
After signing up online at the co-branded page: http://www.earthlink.net/extras/ebp , subscribers can access the service simply by dialing 866-READ-MAIL. Subscribers then say their new Email-by- Phone account number and PIN, and a computer-generated voice automatically begins reading unread messages from their Inbox over the telephone. Subscribers then have the following options:

  • Listen to unread emails directly from their inbox;
  • Delete messages with a voice command;
  • Skip messages with a voice command;
  • Reply to emails with a WAV audio file attachment.

The Email-by-Phone service launch follows EarthLink's recent Calling Card service launch with deltathree (NASDAQ:DDDC), the leading provider of SIP-based hosted communications solutions for service providers and consumers worldwide. The Calling Card service, which deltathree recently announced, allows consumers to make inexpensive long-distance calls to anywhere in the world from their PC or telephone. For more information, please visit http://www.earthlink.net/extras/callcard .

EarthLink is marketing these new services across a number of its most popular Web properties, including its home page ( http://www.earthlink.net/ ) and the EarthLink Personal Start Page(SM) subscriber portal ( http://start.earthlink.net/ ). For more information about EarthLink Email-by-phone, please visit http://www.earthlink.net/extras/ebp . To learn about any of EarthLink's other award-winning Internet access, Web hosting or e-commerce products and services, please call 800-EARTHLINK or visit http://www.earthlink.net/ .

Information about EarthLink services is available by calling 800-395-8425 and through EarthLink's Web site at http://www.earthlink.net/ .

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