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Home-Link Partners with EchoStar

SHELTON, Conn., Sept. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Home-Link Services, Inc. announced today a marketing partnership with EchoStar Communications Corporation, parent company of DISH Network. EchoStar, as DISH Network, is a leading provider of satellite television entertainment and will offer their over 300 channels of digital video and audio programming to Home-LinkŪ members.

Under the agreement, Home-Link's Personal Move CoordinatorsŪ will offer customers their choice of a EchoStar Digital Home Plan, specifically tailored to meet their television programming needs for a low monthly plan charge. Activation of service includes the first month of programming, a Digital Satellite System, Extra Receiver, and Free Standard Professional Installation. EchoStar's dedication to customers' needs, from billing, programming and hardware questions to providing technical support, scheduling installation and activation of all new accounts was seen as natural fit with the Home-Link program.

The Home-Link program, which leverages technology to provide highly personalized service and convenience to homeowners through a Personal Move Coordinator (PMC), is available only to customers of Home-Link licensed brokers. Assisted by proprietary software applications, the PMC acts as the single point of contact to schedule and manage all moving related activities for the customers, thereby freeing the real estate agent to focus efforts on selling or finding homes for the customer. The PMC works with National Marketing Partners, like EchoStar, as well as local partners, to offer members a choice of products and services related to the home.

Home-Link was designed to help residential real estate brokers move beyond a single transaction relationship and participate in the revenues generated by ancillary purchases associated with home ownership. The Home-Link program is presently licensed to over 115 brokers, representing nearly 600,000 real estate transactions annually. The Home-Link program was recently honored by REAL Trends, Inc. as the ``Most Innovative New Product/Service of 2000'' and received Inman News Features' Innovator Award for ``Best Transaction Innovation''.