AT&T, KDD First to Offer International T155 Service.

BASKING RIDGE, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 7, 1997--AT&T said today it will partner with Kokusai Denshin Denwa (KDD) of Japan to offer international private line service at 155 megabits per second from the United States to Japan, the first time such service has been available from the U.S. to anywhere in the world.

AT&T International T155 Service lets multinational businesses send huge amounts of digital data over dedicated point-to-point circuits at speeds of 155 megabits per second, the equivalent of about 2,000 simultaneous voice calls. The high bandwidth capability makes the service ideal for Internet service providers, and for such applications as medical imaging, multimedia and executive videoconferencing.

The service will initially be provided between San Francisco and Tokyo via dedicated circuits on undersea fiber-optic cables. Internet service provider Internet Initiative of Japan (IIJ) will be the first customer to use the service to meet growing demands for Internet data transmission needs to and from the U.S. and Japan. IIJ expects to start the service next month.

"Introduction of International T155 Service demonstrates we are listening to the demands of our large, multinational business customers for services specially designed to meet their expanding data transmission needs," said Darrell Sagehorn, director for AT&T's international data services group. "The service will give those customers the connection they need to facilitate a true bandwidth- intensive application between multiple locations across the world."

The agreement to provide T155 service with KDD comes soon after the announcement that AT&T and KDD now provide Asynchronous Transmission Mode (ATM) technology between the U.S. and Japan. AT&T will utilize the 155 megabits per second network to carry ATM. AT&T also recently announced the availability of T45 service between the U.S. to Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Korea, again demonstrating the company's response to the growing demand of multinational businesses for high-speed international private line services in the Asia-Pacific region.

AT&T T155 Service will be available at half-channel rates and as a two-point service only. Flexible terms and discounts will also be available.

AT&T is the world's premier communications and information services company, serving more than 90 million customers, including consumers, businesses and government. The company has annual revenues of more than $52 billion and 130,000 employees. It runs the world's largest, most sophisticated communications network and is the leading provider of long-distance and wireless service. AT&T operates in more than 200 countries and territories around the world.

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