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To: Jay Rommel who wrote (84404)	11/17/1999 11:16:00 AM
From: Olu Emuleomo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

>>>Bought dead money (eeer) MSFT @ 86 3/8 <<< Why??? --Olu E. (You should have considered SUNW instead :-))

To: Jay Rommel who wrote (84404)	11/17/1999 11:20:00 AM
From: H James Morris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

<<Bought dead money (eeer) MSFT @ 86 3/8>> I just bought more Wcg @ 28. This stock has been dead money since the Ipo. God, I wished Wcg was a B2B stock!! << TULSA, Okla., Nov. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Williams Communications Group, Inc. (NYSE: WCG), one of the only telecommunications providers with a nationwide fiber-optic network engineered to provide powerful individual wavelengths for its carrier customers, is providing Intermedia Communications (Nasdaq: ICIX) with a meshed 11-route OC-48 backbone as part of a new agreement detailed today. Williams Communications' network is a national provider of telecommunications products and services for the carrier marketplace. Intermedia Communications provides integrated telecommunications solutions to business, government, interexchange and local exchange customers. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. The routes acquired in this transaction support Intermedia's plan to deploy a nationwide OC-48 Internet Protocol (IP) optical fiber network. A large component of the routes Williams Communications is providing consist of Williams Communications' Optical Wave Service. Williams Communications is the industry leader in offering the leasing of individual 2.5 Gbps OC-48 wavelengths that provide a transparent interface with a carrier's network. The balance of the capacity under the agreement will be traditional OC-48 private lines. "By using Williams Communications' advanced network for its OC-48 backbone, Intermedia continues to demonstrate its leadership in IP-based networks as well as its ability to meet the growing needs of its business customers," said Dick Marchant, senior vice president of engineering for Intermedia Communications. The routes included in this agreement are: Chicago-Dallas; Chicago-New York; Dallas-Los Angeles; Dallas-Atlanta; Dallas-Washington, D.C.; Atlanta-Washington D.C.; Los Angeles-San Francisco; Chicago-San Francisco; Chicago-Washington, D.C.; Dallas-San Francisco and Washington, D.C.-San Francisco. "Intermedia has experienced explosive growth over the course of our long-standing relationship. Williams Communications' ability to rapidly deliver to Intermedia a nationwide OC-48 backbone to speed its time to market is another example of our commitment to provide carriers with the support and innovative services and solutions they need to be successful," said Gordon Martin, senior vice president of global network services, Williams network. This transaction is one of several agreements between the companies. Intermedia was one of Williams Communications' first customers for high-speed broadband service. Most recently, in December 1998 Intermedia began providing Williams Communications with nationwide enhanced frame relay services to geographically expand Williams Communications' frame relay service. Williams Communications' next-generation long-distance network, the fourth largest in the United States, has 22,600 miles of fiber in the ground and will total 33,000 route miles connecting 125 cities by the end of 2000. The fully integrated architecture of the Williams Multi-Service Broadband Network(TM) couples ATM core switching with advanced optical networking technologies to provide data, voice, video and Internet services. Using 10Gbps transport systems with Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing, the Williams network operates in two directions on a single fiber, delivering more than 80 Gbps in eight waves in each direction. Williams Communications is a recognized industry leader in providing innovative services and advances in fiber-optic engineering. This year Williams Communications was named "Best Wholesale Network" by the readers of America's Network. The company also received the Best Backbone Bandwidth SuperQuest Award and, most recently, the International Engineering Consortium's InfoVision award in the category of public networks for innovation, uniqueness, market impact, customer benefits and value to society. About Williams Communications Group, Inc. Williams Communications is North America's only exclusively carrier-focused fiber-optic network and the largest independent source of end-to-end integrated business communications solutions -- data, voice or video. Based in Tulsa, Okla., Williams Communications has 9,000 employees primarily in North America, with offices in Europe and Asia and investments in South America and Australia. Approximately 85 percent of WCG stock is held by Williams which, in 1985, became the first energy company to harness its core competency as a builder of networks to enable competition in the communications industry. Additional information is available at www.williams.com and www.williamscommunications.com.>>