KDD America Signs Comprehensive Service Agreement
with Williams Communications
[Press release 2000-007] June 28, 2000



KDD America, Inc. (Main Office: New York, U.S.; President: Naoki Kinoto), a 100% subsidiary of KDD, concluded today a comprehensive service agreement with Williams Communications Group, Inc. (Main Office: Oklahoma, U.S.; President Howard Janzen; "WCG") which is designed to enable its procurement of economical and reliable network in the U.S. thus helping to expand smoothly its global network business.

By this agreement, KDD America and WCG become preferential providers of their respective telecommunications services to each other. Following this basic agreement, KDD America will conclude individual service agreements with WCG for telephone, private line, frame relay, cell relay, video transmission, collocation (facility installation in WCG's premises) and backhaul (connecting lines to submarine cable landing sites). These agreements will give KDD America a reach to economical and highly reliable networks and services all over the U.S.

In addition, the two companies have agreed to jointly develop and promote areas such as system integration and data center businesses as well as IP-VPN service.

Today's agreement will also enable KDD Corporation, through KDD America, to interconnect its large capacity networks with those of WCG in order to enhance its capability of providing multinational and other customers with internationally seamless and diversified services on a secure and economical basis.


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Profile of Williams Communications Group, Inc.

Main Office: Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
President: Howard Janzen
Foundation and History:
1985
Established under the firm's name of Wiltel Inc. as a communications subsidiary of the natural gas pipeline company, Williams Inc.
Build up the fourth largest network in the U. S. following AT&T, MCI and Sprint
1995Sold to LDDS (present MCI/WCM)
1998Restarted telecommunications business under the firm's name of Williams Communications Group, Inc.
1999Listed on the New York Stock Exchange
Outline of business: Provides mainly telecommunications carriers with network services using 27,000-mile (expansion planned to 33,000-mile) long optical fibers laid through pipelines across the United States.
Sales: $2,023 million (1999)
Number of employees: 10,000
Aggregate market value: $16,215 million


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