Covad Partners with Hostopia, Inc for Enhanced
E-mail and Web Hosting Services for Small-Businesses
Nationwide [November 2, 2004]
Currently
Serving nearly 100,000 Residential and Business Customers
San
Jose, Calif. (November 2, 2004) – Covad Communications
(OTCBB: COVD), a leading national provider of integrated
voice and data communications, introduced a suite of
new Hostopia-powered e-mail and Web hosting services
for small-businesses, including basic e-mail solutions
starting under $10 per month.
Covad's
enhanced hosting services include e-mail, Webmail, a
simple-to-use Web design tool, and Web reports. All
hosting services also include free anti-virus and SPAM
protection, an easy-to-use online account management
tool, and 24x7x365 live customer support.
“In
order for small-businesses to be successful, they need
to spend more time focusing on their bottom line and
less time worrying about their e-mail and Web site,”
said Justin Spencer, product management and development
manager at Covad. “We want small-businesses to
take advantage of Covad’s intuitive hosted e-mail
and Website services as a way to effectively help their
business grow.”
Says
Hostopia’s president, Franc Nemanic, “We
are pleased that Covad has selected Hostopia to deliver
and manage Covad’s full suite of enhanced hosting
services. I believe we demonstrated a formula of highly
sophisticated, seamless back office integration to Covad’s
customer and employee facing systems as well as a new
engine of business growth and diminished customer churn
for their business services.”
Covad
Hosting Services Enhancements and Highlights
One
of the key enhancements with Covad’s new Hosting
services is its intuitive anti-virus and SPAM protection
upgrade that passes more control to end-users to customize
their own SPAM settings and parameters. Users can have
SPAM quarantined, tagged and delivered, or simply deleted.
The
entirely new suite of business class services includes
storage-mail boxes that are now 40 MB in size (originally
10 MB) with advanced features such as:
- Auto-responder
messages
- Forwarding
- Aliasing
- Catch-alls
Business
users also receive a newly enhanced Webmail user interface
that dramatically improves the customers’ ease-of-use,
including two different interface options for customers
who have specific viewing preferences. This is ideal
for small-business administrators who want to enable
their employees with the ability to manage their own
e-mail and SPAM settings.
Covad
is also giving customers a new Web design tool to address
the needs of small-businesses that want to create an
online presence. Covad’s Web design tool is an
easy-to-use Web-based application that allows users
with no prior Web design experience to create a professional
looking Web site within minutes. Businesses can quickly
create their online presence by choosing from hundreds
of pre-built site templates organized by industry vertical.
Covad
E-mail and Hosting Packages and Prices
Covad
offers an e-mail only plan and three Web hosting plans,
designed to address the needs of small-businesses. The
e-mail only plan with anti-virus and SPAM protection
is $9.95 a month while the Web hosting plans range from
$19.95 a month to $79.95 a month when bundled with Covad
Broadband access services.
E-mail
Service Only Details:
•
Each mailbox has 40 MB of storage
•
Free Webmail, anti-virus and SPAM protection
Web
Hosting Services (also includes business class e-mail
service) Details:
•
Basic - 50 MB Web storage/ 2.5 GB data transfer/ 20
e-mail accounts
•
Enhanced - 100 MB Web storage/ 5 GB data transfer/ 30
e-mail accounts
•
Premium - 250 MB Web storage/ 10 GB data transfer/ 50
e-mail accounts
•
Free Webmail, anti-virus and SPAM protection, Web Design
Templates
All
of the hosting packages feature a unique technology
that allows Unix and Windows applications to be used
on the same website. No longer will small business owners
have to settle between operating systems when designing
and maintaining their website.
For
more information on Covad’s Hosting Services visit
http://covad.com/products/hosting/index.shtml or call
1-800-636-3500.
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About
Covad
Covad is a leading nationwide provider of integrated
voice and data communications. The company offers DSL,
Voice Over IP, T1, Web hosting, managed security, IP
and dial-up, and bundled voice and data services directly
through Covad's network and through Internet Service
Providers, value-added resellers, telecommunications
carriers and affinity groups to small and medium-sized
businesses and home users. Covad broadband services
are currently available across the nation in 44 states
and 235 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) and can
be purchased by more than 57 million homes and businesses,
which represent over 50 percent of all US homes and
businesses. Corporate headquarters is located at 110
Rio Robles San Jose, CA 95134. Telephone: 1-888-GO-COVAD.
Web Site: www.covad.com.
Safe
Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995:
The foregoing contains "forward-looking statements"
regarding expectations around increased growth, as well
as other matters, which are based on management's current
information and beliefs as well as on a number of assumptions
concerning future events made by management. Readers
are cautioned not to put undue reliance on such forward-looking
statements, which are not a guarantee of performance
and are subject to a number of uncertainties and other
factors, many of which are outside Covad's control,
that could cause actual results to differ materially
from such statements. These risk factors include the
impact of increasing competition, pricing pressures,
consolidation in the telecommunications industry, and
uncertainty in telecommunications regulations and changes
in technologies, among other risks. For a more detailed
description of the risk factors that could cause such
a difference, please see Covad's 10-K, 10-K/A, 10-Q,
8-K and other filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission. Covad disclaims any intention or obligation
to update or revise any forward-looking statements,
whether as a result of new information, future events
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