Huge audience for the Webcast of the Concert in Cape Town on www.46664.com powered by Tiscali

Cagliari, 4th December 2003 - More than 1,200,000 PCs were connected to the live Internet broadcast of the concert on 29 November in Cape Town. Landmark success also for the on-demand webcast: in the first 24 hours, 350,000 on-demand requests from all over the world.

More than 1,200,000 PCs connected means an even greater number of people watched the live images of 46664: The Concert in association with MTV's Staying Alive, staged at Green Point Stadium in Cape Town, South Africa on 29 November.

Incredible too the huge number of on-demand requests for the concert that were received on 1 December, World AIDS Day: more than 350,000 in the space of only 24 hours. The number of Internet users all over the world that will be able to follow the event is destined to grow, as the concert will be available for the next three months.

Above and beyond the overwhelming success in terms of audience, the Webcast is also an important step in the history of on-line events. This is due to the high-quality audio and video of the broadcast on the Internet. Tiscali’s decision to create an exceptional Content Delivery Network, which resulted in the world's main Internet operators collaborating together, also contributed to the success of the event.

The Cape Town concert was broadcast via internet to over 200 countries not only through the official site, www.46664.com, powered by Tiscali, and by Tiscali’s portals in 15 European countries and South Africa, but also through other servers and networks.

By sharing the online broadcasting rights, Tiscali helped realise the vision of Nelson Mandela to use the very latest technology to disseminate worldwide the call to put an end to AIDS. More than ever, Tiscali is committed to supporting 46664 – Give 1 minute of your life to AIDS, a global campaign to boost public awareness of the HIV/AIDS catastrophe and to raise funds for the Nelson Mandela Foundation. More than that, such a huge event saw international and important artists and companies abandon for one day the laws of competition to work together for a single goal.

Users will be able to carry on making donations online (on www.46664.com), download exclusive songs performed by the concert's artists, buy the official CD and DVD of the event available starting from next March, purchase the merchandising,supporting the fund-raising campaign.