SAN FRANCISCO (September 25, 2002) – Critical Path, Inc. (Nasdaq: CPTH), a global leader in Internet communications, today announced that Forbes.com has selected it as one of the top business-to-business (B2B) companies serving the telecommunications industry. Critical Path is one of four companies selected from a field of 16 finalists to be honored in the Fall 2002 “Best of the Web” issue. Critical Path won the award based on its ability to deliver new revenue-generating wireless services to its global customer base, including 190 telecommunications carriers and service providers. Other winners in this category were Arbinet-thexchange, Cisco Systems, Inc. and Level 3 Communications, Inc.
“Critical Path is proud to provide carriers and service providers around the world with the advanced solutions they need today to introduce new value-added services and increase their average revenue per user (ARPU) in today’s tough market,” said William E. McGlashan, Jr., chairman and chief executive officer of Critical Path. “Our messaging and identity management solutions are integral to helping our customers win subscribers and reduce their operational costs. We are honored to be recognized by Forbes.com for our continuing leadership in providing advanced messaging solutions to the telecommunications industry.”
This Fall 2002 listing, which includes profiles of 80 companies, is the third-annual Forbes.com “Best of the Web B2B Directory.” More information can be found at: www.forbes.com/bow.
About Critical Path, Inc.
Critical Path, Inc. (Nasdaq: CPTH) delivers software and services that maximize the value of Internet communications. The company provides messaging and collaboration solutions -- from wireless, secure and unified messaging to basic email and personal information management -- as well as identity management solutions that simplify user profile management and strengthen information security. The standards-based Critical Path Communications Platform, built to perform reliably at the scale of public networks, delivers the industry’s lowest total cost of ownership for messaging solutions and lays a solid foundation for next-generation communications services. Critical Path's customers include more than 700 enterprises, 190 carriers and service providers, eight national postal authorities and 35 government agencies. Critical Path is headquartered in San Francisco with offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America. More information on Critical Path can be found at www.cp.net
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