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Tuesday April 9, 7:03 am Eastern Time
Press Release
SOURCE: WorldCom
CCA Global Partners Selects WorldCom for Managed Web Hosting Solutions
WorldCom Leverages Wholly-Owned Network & Digex Affiliation to Expand Leading Home Furnishings Company's International Presence Online
CLINTON, Miss., April 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- WorldCom (Nasdaq: WCOM - news), the leading global business data and Internet communications provider, today announced that CCA Global Partners has selected WorldCom to provide managed Web hosting solutions for its affiliated suite of home furnishings Web sites, including the redesigned site for its Carpet One stores, http://www.CarpetOne.com .

The world's largest retail and wholesale floor covering group, CCA Global Partners operates in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Operating units include Carpet One, the first and still largest unit; FloorExpo; Flooring America; International Design Guild; Lighting One; ProSource, Rug Decor; and Stone Mountain's Carpet Mill Outlet.

WorldCom, with the support of its managed Web and application hosting affiliate Digex (Nasdaq: DIGX - news), is providing fast, reliable customer access to complete company information worldwide, while reducing CCA Global's total cost of Web operations through an outsourced managed hosting solution. At the same time, CCA Global Partners is ensuring its online business continuity by placing its Web servers in a secure off-site Internet data center with 24x7 monitoring, support and dependable, scalable links to the WorldCom facilities- based global IP network.

``With the unmatched technical expertise and global network assets that WorldCom brings to bear, we know that we are leveraging the full power of the Web to build our brands and make shopping convenient and easy for our customers,'' said CCA Global Partners Chief Operating Officer Bob Wilson.

For example, CarpetOne.com now offers the Selectafloor system, a unique system that allows customers to pre-shop on the Web by exploring Carpet One's exclusive products and outstanding warranties quickly and easily. Created in response to consumer demand for a more straightforward floor shopping experience, Selectafloor organizes products according to lifestyle, product promise and color. Customers can view large, high-resolution images of carpets in approximately 9,000 colors and textures with complete information on fiber, warranty, style, and brand. Previously available only at Carpet One showrooms throughout North America, the Web-based system allows users to make informed purchase decisions at their convenience, anywhere, anytime.

``As we continue to expand and enrich our Web presence, CCA Global Partner's relationship with WorldCom will continue to play an important role in the evolution of our online business plan,'' added Wilson.

``WorldCom's business is to help our customers achieve their business objectives,'' said Greg Moore, vice president of WorldCom Global Managed Services. ``By outsourcing its Web operations to WorldCom, CCA Global Partners is meeting its online business goals, in addition to freeing-up capital and IT resources to focus on what it does best. That is what WorldCom managed solutions deliver -- dependability, performance and value.''

WorldCom offers Web hosting solutions to meet every customer's need from Web server colocation to shared, dedicated and custom managed hosting services. WorldCom's suite of global Web hosting services run over the company's facilities-based network, through its state-of-the-art data centers located across the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia Pacific. Web hosting services are part of the full continuum of advanced data communications solutions WorldCom provides to business customers around the world.

About CCA Global Partners

CCA Global Partners, the word's largest floor covering group, is a leading home furnishings specialty company, with retail and wholesale channels in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. CCA divisions have a total annual sales volume of more than $6 billion with more than 2,000 locations. Corporate offices are in Manchester, NH, and St. Louis, MO.

About WorldCom Group

WorldCom group (Nasdaq: WCOM - news), an operating unit of WorldCom, Inc., is a pre-eminent global communications provider for the digital generation, operating in more than 65 countries with annualized revenues exceeding $21 billion. With one of the most expansive, wholly-owned IP networks in the world, WorldCom provides innovative data and Internet services for businesses to communicate in today's market. For more information, go to http://www.worldcom.com .

About the WorldCom-Digex Affiliation

The WorldCom-Digex affiliation strategically combines the custom managed Web and application hosting expertise of Digex with the shared, dedicated and colocation hosting technologies of WorldCom to offer businesses of all sizes the full continuum of secure, dependable hosting services. Powered by the reach and reliability of the facilities-based WorldCom global network, the WorldCom-Digex affiliation rapidly delivers scalable, high-availability outsourced solutions that enable companies throughout North America, Europe and Asia to better focus on their core business.

SOURCE: WorldCom