AT&T Wins Contract With National Leisure Group

BOSTON -- AT&T (NYSE: T) today announced it has won a multimillion dollar contract to provide managed networking services to National Leisure Group Inc. (NLG), one of the nation's largest leisure travel companies. Terms of the contract were not disclosed.

AT&T will provide managed frame relay, private-line and toll-free services to integrate NLG's 23 retail locations across New England and four call centers located in Massachusetts, Virginia and Florida.

The combination of new equipment and AT&T networking services will enable NLG to enhance service for the more than three million consumers each year who call NLG's brands, including Vacation Outlet and CruisesOnly. In addition, by expanding NLG's bandwidth, AT&T will also help reduce NLG's call-related expenses.

"To effectively and efficiently manage our growing call volumes and simultaneously scale services according to spikes in seasonal demand, we require unprecedented flexibility and reliability from our network provider," said Helen Falcone, Director of Technical Services with NLG. "We are very pleased to be working with AT&T to ensure the very best possible experience for our customers."

The AT&T networking solution also provides NLG employees with secure, high-speed access to online proprietary databases and supports NLG's business continuity plan.

AT&T will provide services to NLG through AT&T OneNet® Service, which simplifies purchasing, and managing networking services by consolidating them into a single contract, with discounts across all services.

Through the secure AT&T BusinessDirectÒportal, NLG also gains 24-hour, 7-day-a-week online access to tools that provide real-time reports on network performance and direct access to AT&T's ordering, billing and payment, status, inventory, and trouble management systems.

About NLG

NLG is one of the nation's largest online and offline leisure travel companies. The company enables consumers to plan and purchase their vacation or cruise online using industry-leading dynamic packaging technologies or offline with highly experienced travel consultants.

The company interacts with millions of consumers through a portfolio of leading brands that it owns or licenses, including Vacation Outlet, Cruises Only, Cruises.com, Orbitz (Nasdaq: ORBZ), SAM'S CLUB (NYSE: WMT), Yahoo!, Hotwire, priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN), AAdvantage Cruise and many others. NLG is headquartered in Woburn, Mass. For outstanding cruise and vacation deals visit Cruises Only (www.cruisesonly.com) or Vacation Outlet (www.vacationoutlet.com).

About AT&T

For more than 125 years, AT&T (NYSE "T") has been known for unparalleled quality and reliability in communications. Backed by the research and development capabilities of AT&T Labs, the company is a global leader in local, long distance, Internet and transaction-based voice and data services.