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CompuServe announces exclusive wireless technology enabling communication
to all pagers in the U.S.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 10, 1995 -- CompuServe Incorporated is introducing a
unique combination of online and wireless technologies that will offer a
wide range of new communication services to pager users across the
country.

These new services allow CompuServe members to send electronic mail to
CompuServe members who have one of the more than 30 million numeric or
alphanumeric pagers across the U.S. Members can also be notified by pager
when e-mail is received in their CompuServe mail box.

The national scope and ability to reach any pager is unique to CompuServe
as the result of an exclusive agreement between CompuServe and RPA, the
Jersey City, N.J.-based automated paging network provider. The
relationship with RPA also lays the foundation for the development of the
next generation in wireless communication.

"Millions of people subscribe to paging services to help them stay in touch
with their office or family," said Steve Owens, CompuServe's wireless
products manager. "And millions of people join CompuServe to stay in
charge of information with e-mail, Forum(r) messaging and other
communication services. Now, CompuServe has brought both technologies
together by offering services that allow members to use their pagers to
keep track of incoming e-mail messages and to receive messages both from
other CompuServe members and from other sources. No other communication
company or online service offers this type of integrated communication
service."

Said Dan Hurley, RPA's vice president of marketing, "We see this
partnership with CompuServe as a logical extension of the quality wireless
services that we have provided to our corporate clients for the last 12
years."

Beginning in November, members will be able to use their pager to receive
notification when electronic mail is delivered into their CompuServe
mailbox. In addition, CompuServe members and users of other online and
Internet services around the world will be able to send alphanumeric
messages and numeric codes to CompuServe members' pagers.

In early 1996, additional services will allow members to employ SmartRules,
which will enable members to filter important messages and forward them to
their pagers or other destinations. And members will be able to use their
pagers to receive select, personalized information such as stock quotes,
sports scores, news, weather and other information from the CompuServe
Information Service.

"This is just the tip of the iceberg," said Rob Mainor, CompuServe's vice
president of product marketing and business information services. "Today,
we are working on products that will allow you to transmit voice-mail to
your laptop, receive a fax to your e-mail box and send an e-mail to a
personal digital assistant (PDA) via a wireless pager card. Through
CompuServe, you'll know when an important message arrives in your online
mailbox.

"These services are going to be especially important to the mobile
professional who depends on laptops, PDAs and other personal
communicators," said Bob Parsley, product manager of CompuServe's
Interface Products Group. "When equipped with pager cards, these units
will be able to overcome conventional requirements, like the need for
phone jacks and modems, and receive information on the fly. The portables
market has been waiting for a communication application like this."

This initiative is the first of many that will result from CompuServe's
relationships with business partners MobileComm, PageMart, PageNet and
SkyTel, announced earlier this year. These offerings are part of
CompuServe's "Stay In Charge" strategy, intended to leverage CompuServe's
ability to deliver the broadest set of communication services in the
industry.

CompuServe offers a full range of electronic communications products to
help individuals and businesses stay in charge of information. CompuServe
operates the largest private e-mail system in the world with more than 3.5
million mailboxes and more than 26 million messages are exchanged within
CompuServe, across the Internet and through other e-mail services each
month. CompuServe communication products also include the CompuServe Mail
Hub providing native connectivity for Novell Netware MHS, Lotus cc: Mail,
Lotus Notes services and X.400 services.

RPA, formerly Radio PageAmerica, is a privately-held Company based in
Jersey City, N.J., providing a full range of value-added wireless
communications services, primarily for Fortune 200-type Corporate
customers. They have previously provided wireless connectivity for
computer-based dispatch systems, voicemail systems and E-mail systems.

CompuServe is an H&R Block (NYSE:HRB) company.

Founded in 1955, H&R Block, a diversified services company, is the world's
leading tax preparation and online information services company.
CompuServe operates the most comprehensive network in the world, providing
online services to more than 3.6 million members in more than 140
countries and network services to more than 850 corporate customers
worldwide. H&R Block Tax Services provided tax-related services for almost
one in every seven returns filed with the IRS in 1995, and served 17.1
million taxpayers in more than 9,500 offices worldwide.
 
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