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WildBlue Press Release

WILDBLUE COMMUNICATIONS® OFFERS ENHANCED WILDBLUE.NET CUSTOMER PORTAL WITH GOOGLE TECHNOLOGY
12/17/2007

Service to Enable Customers to Create Personalized Home Pages From Among Thousands of Google Gadgets?

Denver, Colorado ? WildBlue Communications, Inc. today announced that they have signed an agreement with Google, Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG) to provide a suite of enhanced services to WildBlue customers.

The new WildBlue.net home page, slated to launch in the first quarter of 2008, will include many of Google?s popular web services, including Gmail? webmail services, Google Calendar? shared calendaring, Google Talk? instant messaging and Google Page Creator? web page creation tools. The new WildBlue.net home page will also feature a mix of news, weather, sports, and entertainment, plus powerful new customizable features from more than 2,000 available Google Gadgets that can be easily added to each customer?s individual WildBlue.net home page.

Google logo"Our partnership with Google is another example of WildBlue?s continued commitment to providing our customers with innovative products and services that improve their high-speed Internet experience," said David Leonard, WildBlue?s Chief Executive Officer. "Google?s strong brand and extensive suite of valuable services are the perfect complement to WildBlue and we?re proud to be able to offer it to our rapidly growing base of customers."

"We're pleased WildBlue can now provide members with a rich set of Google email, calendaring, collaboration and personalized homepage services," said Stephen Cho, Product Management Director, Google Syndication Products. "We think WildBlue's customers will enjoy discovering these new and exciting opportunities to find, share and interact on the web."

As the Internet continues to become more data intensive, it also becomes less accessible to many consumers and small businesses whose only alternative to accessing the Internet today is through a dial-up connection. WildBlue?s high-speed Internet over satellite service offers Internet access speeds that are up to thirty times faster than dial-up, making more of the Internet available to more Americans.

Google, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk, Google Page Creator and Google Gadgets are trademarks of Google Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.

About WildBlue
WildBlue Communications, Inc. was established to provide broadband access to consumers and small offices in rural areas and small cities. WildBlue Communication's high-speed satellite broadband service is easy to use, reliable, always on, and significantly faster than standard dial-up service.  It opens up a window to a world of rich content that is largely unavailable through dial-up service and is accessible in areas traditionally unserved by cable modem or DSL service. Service is available in the continental United States. For more information visit www.wildblue.com. 

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