Verizon Wireless Selects SalesMountain.com to Deliver Local Sales and Promotions to Web-Enabled Cell Phones

Los Angeles, CA, and Bedminster, NJ — Los Angeles, CA, and Bedminster, NJ - Verizon Wireless, the largest wireless communications provider in the U.S., and SalesMountain.com, the world's most visited Sales-site delivering Sales advertising and promotional content for store-based retailers, service providers and e-tailers, today announced that the wireless leader has selected SalesMountain.com to deliver localized Sales and promotional information to Verizon Wireless' customers nationwide.

Beginning today, Verizon Wireless' Mobile Web customers will be able to access Sales information including description, pricing, phone number, and store location for tens of thousands of local and online Sales maintained in SalesMountain's comprehensive Sales database. SalesMountain's mobile service lists the top Sales in your local area plus Sales listings by brand, topic, and store. The products and services covered range from electronics and apparel to groceries, home furnishings, dry cleaning and office supplies. Customers who wish to call their favorite stores to verify the Sale and availability and to reserve the Sale merchandise for purchase and pickup may do so easily right off the phone menu.

Verizon Wireless today launched its nationwide Mobile Web service, which combines the convenience and mobility of wireless communications with popular content from the World Wide Web. The Mobile Web service, which runs on Verizon Wireless' robust and reliable, coast-to-coast CDMA network, gives users access to the Web-based information they want via their wireless handset.

"Combining our wireless technology with SalesMountain.com content gives consumers easy access to customized information while they shop - all at the touch of a button," stated Marc Lefar, staff vice president, e-Business, Wireless Internet and Data Services. "By allowing users to completely customize their wireless Internet experience based on their personal interests, Mobile Web can give customers rapid access to 'What's on Sale' in their local stores. Customers using our Mobile Web service will save time and money by going only to the stores with the best values on the products they want."

According to Charles Hymowitz, SalesMountain.com's Managing Director of Technology and Marketing, "Now Verizon Wireless' customers can obtain the same unbiased Sales and promotions information over a Web-enabled wireless phone that they get from their computers. SalesMountain's localized services give Verizon Wireless' customers the flexibility to make informed buying decisions in real time and wherever they are, at their desk or on the road." Hymowitz added: "As the most visited Sales-site on the Internet, SalesMountain is and always has been committed to being the best and most widely-distributed Sales and promotional content provider. We believe our alliance with Verizon Wireless will extend our reach immensely."

According to a March report from the Yankee Group, the number of US mobile Internet users is predicted to soar from 1.8 million to 4 million by the end of 2000. The report also forecasts that 1 billion mobile Internet access devices will be in use around the world by 2003. Within the US, Jupiter Communications predicts that the total mobile Internet user base will exceed 100 million by 2003.

About SalesMountain.com

SalesMountain.com is the Internet-based leader in the direct marketing of offline and online Sales advertising and promotional content, with over 60,000 continuous Sales from more than 16,500 retailers and service providers in more than 800 departments covering over 16,000 brands available in more than 175,000 store locations in the US alone. The Company is privately held and headquartered in Los Angeles, and has offices in the UK and Germany in addition to its North American operations.

For more information, visit SalesMountain's web site at http://www.SalesMountain.com/about.htm or contact Jan Bauer, GCI Group, 6100 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 840, Los Angeles, CA 90048-5115, Tel 323-930-0811 or e-mail jbauer@gcigroup.com.

About Verizon Wireless

Verizon Wireless is the largest wireless communications provider in the U.S. with more than 25 million wireless voice and data customers and nearly 4 million paging customers. The new coast-to-coast wireless provider was formed by the combination of the U.S. wireless businesses of Bell Atlantic Corp. (NYSE:BEL), Vodafone AirTouch Plc (LSE:VOD; NYSE:VOD), and GTE Corp. (NYSE:GTE). The new company includes the assets of Bell Atlantic Mobile, AirTouch Cellular, GTE Wireless, PrimeCo Personal Communications and AirTouch Paging. The new company has a footprint covering nearly 90 percent of the U.S. population, 49 of the top 50 and 96 of the top 100 U.S. markets.

Verizon Wireless, headquartered in New York City and Bedminster, NJ, is 30,000 employees strong. Reporters and editors can find more information about the company in its Media Center on the Web at: http://www.verizonwireless.com/mediacenter.

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, regarding the Company's business strategy and future plans of operations. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, both general and specific to the matters discussed in this press release. These and other important factors, including those mentioned in various Securities and Exchange Commission filings made periodically by the Company, may cause the Company's actual results and performance to differ materially from the future results and performance expressed in or implied by such forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release speak only as of the date hereof and the Company expressly disclaims any obligation to provide public updates, revisions or amendments to any forward-looking statements made herein to reflect changes in the Company's expectations or future events.

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