Gear Up For NCAA Football Bowl Season With New Verizon Wireless Alerts Service Powered by InfoSpace

BELLEVUE, WA and BEDMINSTER, NJ — Verizon Wireless, the nation's largest wireless service provider, and InfoSpace, Inc. (NASDAQ: INSP), a provider of wireless and Internet software and application services, today announced that Verizon Wireless has launched a special offering for NCAA football fans. Mobile Web and Mobile Messenger^SM customers can sign up starting today through Jan. 3, 2002 to receive scores during the college football bowl season.

Verizon Wireless customers can choose to receive scores at the game's end or at the end of every quarter as well as weather reports in cities where bowl games are held. The first NCAA football bowl game is on Dec. 18, 2001, and the final game is on Jan. 3, 2002. Today's news comes just over two months after the companies announced that Verizon Wireless had launched InfoSpace's baseball playoff alerts service.

To activate football bowl alerts, subscribers with digital service should log on to the Verizon Wireless Web site at My Verizon and follow the instructions to set up the college bowl alerts they want to receive.

"These information alerts are a great service for students, alums and other dedicated college football fans who cannot watch every game during the hectic holiday season," said John Stratton, chief marketing officer of Verizon Wireless. "Mobile Web customers were enthusiastic about October's baseball playoff alerts, and we are delighted to be working with InfoSpace again."

"Our latest alerts service for college bowl results is another example of InfoSpace's commitment to driving mobile data usage for valued partners such as Verizon Wireless. We are pleased to be providing Verizon Wireless with applications and services that are leading-edge, timely, personalized, and geared to increase subscriber loyalty," said Jan Claesson, executive vice president of wireless for InfoSpace. "Wireless alerts have been very popular with wireless users in North America, and we are pleased to support Verizon Wireless in leading the mobile data revolution."

Customers who have signed up for Verizon Wireless Mobile Web service will have alerts count against their monthly alert bundle.

About InfoSpace, Inc.

InfoSpace, Inc. (NASDAQ: INSP) provides wireless and Internet software and application services. The Company develops software technologies that enable customers to efficiently offer a broad array of network-based services under their own brand to any device.

This release contains forward-looking statements relating to the development of InfoSpace, Inc.'s products and services and future operating results, including statements regarding InfoSpace's agreement with Verizon Wireless, that are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. The words "believe," "expect," "intend," "anticipate," variations of such words, and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements, but their absence does not mean that the statement is not forward-looking. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Factors that could affect InfoSpace's actual results include the progress and costs of the development of our products and services and the timing of market acceptance of those products and services. A more detailed description of certain factors that could affect actual results include, but are not limited to, those discussed in InfoSpace's Annual Report on Form 10-K, in the section entitled "Factors Affecting Our Operating Results, Business Prospects and Market Price of Stock." Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this release. InfoSpace undertakes no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements to reflect new information, events or circumstances after the date of this release or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.

About Verizon Wireless

Verizon Wireless is the largest wireless communications provider in the U.S. with more than 28.7 million wireless voice and data customers. The coast-to-coast wireless provider was formed by the combination of the U.S. wireless businesses of Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ) and Vodafone (NYSE and LSE: VOD). Verizon Wireless has a footprint covering more than 90 percent of the U.S. population, 49 of the top 50 and 97 of the top 100 U.S. markets. The company, headquartered in Bedminster, NJ, is 40,000 employees strong. Reporters and editors can find more information about the company on the Web at http://www.verizonwireless.com.

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