Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTR) announced today an agreement
to make Yellowbook the exclusive provider of local business search
information on Charter.net, the website designed for the company’s
high-speed Internet customers.
This agreement is an extension of a co-marketing and distribution
relationship formed in 2007. Since then, Charter and Yellowbook have
been co-marketing products and services through a variety of sales
channels. Through these efforts, awareness of Charter’s residential and
commercial telephone business has dramatically increased and Yellowbook
has provided additional benefits to directory users and advertisers.
Charter now serves more than 1.3 million telephone customers, and its
commercial revenues increased significantly year over year, thanks in
large part to the ability to bundle telephone with high-speed Internet
and video services.
As a part of this new agreement, Charter.net users are now able to
access local business information provided through Yellowbook by simply
clicking on the Yellowbook search tab at www.charter.net.
"Charter is always looking for ways to enhance our customers’ experience
and to provide them with additional value,” said Rich DiGeronimo,
Charter’s Vice President of Product Management. "Charter.net provides
our customers access to a wide variety of local and national news,
information and video, and the incredible depth of content available on
yellowbook.com complements the resources on our site.”
"Providing new and unique ways to help consumers easily find local
business information is important to us,” added Pat Marshall, Chief New
Media Officer at Yellowbook. "Not only does this agreement make vital
local business information readily available to Charter.net users, but
it also increases the opportunities for our advertisers to generate
additional exposure for their products and services.”
About Charter Communications
Charter Communications, Inc. is a leading broadband communications
company and the fourth-largest cable operator in the United States.
Charter provides a full range of advanced broadband services, including
advanced Charter Digital Cable® video entertainment programming, Charter
High-Speed® Internet access, and Charter Telephone®. Charter Business™
similarly provides scalable, tailored, and cost-effective broadband
communications solutions to business organizations, such as
business-to-business Internet access, data networking, video and music
entertainment services, and business telephone. Charter's advertising
sales and production services are sold under the Charter Media® brand.
More information about Charter can be found at www.charter.com.