Adelphia Introduces New Customer Home Page and Value-Added Services to Its High-Speed Internet Customers

Adelphia Introduces New Customer Home Page and Value-Added Services to Its High-Speed Internet Customers

Synacor's Portelus(TM) Technology Will Serve as the Platform for Adelphia's Broadband Content and Services

GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo. and BUFFALO, N.Y., Dec. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Adelphia Communications and Synacor, a leading provider of technology supporting the delivery of bundled online services, today announced that Synacor's Portelus technology platform will be used to power Adelphia's new High-Speed Internet service customer home page that was jointly developed by Adelphia and Synacor. The new home page will include many improvements over the existing customer home page, including a wide variety of news from Associated Press, streaming media clips, and a free online photo service, among others.

Adelphia will relaunch its improved High-Speed Internet customer home page as part of a larger campaign focusing on a commitment to providing value-added premium services, easy access to online customer service options, and packaging useful free online content for its High-Speed Internet customers. The redesign is an easy-to-use, reliable and fully featured package of services. The redesigned portal will also allow Adelphia to rapidly introduce new value-added services.

"Our new customer home page will further improve the value of our High-Speed Internet service and provide the foundation for us to introduce a wide range of value-added services. Synacor's platform and existing relationships with third-party service providers allows us to expand and evolve our offering easily over time," said Karl Ossentjuk, Vice President of Internet services project management for Adelphia.

Synacor's platform, Portelus, enables a variety of online content on the Adelphia High-Speed Internet customer home page to be fully integrated and available through a single user-id, password, and interface.

"The Adelphia management team understands the importance of adding value to its High-Speed Internet offerings. We expect to bring significant personalization to Adelphia High-Speed Internet subscribers through our platform to support their value-added services strategy," said Ron Frankel, President and CEO of Synacor. "Our specialized expertise, as well as our proven ability to partner effectively to provide the best high-speed experience available, is certain to deliver great value to Adelphia consumers."

The new customer home page will be included as part of all three of Adelphia's residential High-Speed Internet tiers.

About Synacor

Synacor enables Internet Service Providers (ISP) to easily bundle a wide variety of subscription only premium, entertainment, and value added services into their Internet access products. Synacor has integrated over 30 content and service providers into its platform, Portelus, providing great value to consumers. This network is the most complete catalog of subscription service providers available from one source today. Portelus is private label reinforcing the brand of the ISP. It also allows them to easily bundle, provision, support, and bill for multiple services offered as part of a single rate code. Synacor's Portelus product suite is currently deployed and has achieved successes that exceed the expectations of its customers. For more information visit www.synacor.com

About Adelphia Communications

Adelphia Communications Corporation is the fifth-largest cable television company in the country. It serves customers in 31 states and Puerto Rico, and offers analog and digital video services, high-speed Internet access and other advanced services over its broadband networks.

Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Information

This document includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All statements regarding Adelphia Communications Corporation's and its subsidiaries' and affiliates' (collectively, the "Company") expected future financial position, results of operations, cash flows, process for sale of the Company, restructuring and financing plans, expected emergence from bankruptcy, business strategy, budgets, projected costs, capital expenditures, network upgrades, products and services, competitive positions, growth opportunities, plans and objectives of management for future operations, improvements to the Company's high-speed Internet offerings, as well as statements that include words such as "anticipate," "if," "believe," "plan," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "could," "should," "will," and other similar expressions are forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements are inherently uncertain, and readers must recognize that actual results may differ materially from the Company's expectations. The Company does not undertake a duty to update such forward-looking statements. Factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements include the Company's pending bankruptcy proceeding, results of litigation against the Company and government investigations of the Company, the effects of government regulation including the actions of local cable franchising authorities, the availability of financing, actions of the Company's competitors, results and impacts of the process to sell the Company or its assets, pricing and availability of programming, equipment, supplies, and other inputs, the Company's ability to upgrade its network, technological developments, and changes in general economic conditions. Many of these factors are outside of the Company's control.

For more information, contact:

For Synacor For Adelphia
Lisa A. Ruiz Erica Stull
310-320-2010 303-268-6502
lisa@bobgoldpr.comerica.stull@adelphia.com


Source: Synacor; Adelphia Communications

CONTACT: Lisa A. Ruiz, +1-310-320-2010, lisa@bobgoldpr.com, for Synacor;
or Erica Stull of Adelphia, +1-303-268-6502, erica.stull@adelphia.com

Web site: http://www.synacor.com/


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