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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (115632)	10/26/2000 9:51:23 AM
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Advanced Fibre Communications Signs New Agreement With SBC Communications AFC to Provide SBC With DSL-Ready Remote Access Solutions PETALUMA, Calif., Oct. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Advanced Fibre Communications(R), Inc. (AFC(R)) (Nasdaq: AFCI) today announced it has signed a new agreement with SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE: SBC), a global communications provider, to deploy AFC's industry-leading, remote broadband access solutions. The agreement continues AFC's relationship as one of the suppliers for SBC's $6 billion Project Pronto initiative. Under the terms of this agreement, which extends through April 2004, AFC will provide SBC with DSL-ready remote access equipment. SBC is the nation's leading provider of DSL service. The agreement also includes deployment of AFC's services to states in SBC's Ameritech region such as Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin, adding to existing services provided to SBC in Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Kansas, Missouri, Nevada, Oklahoma and Texas. "Our entire organization has been committed to SBC's vision of near-ubiquitous DSL service to its customers across America," commented John Schofield, president and CEO for AFC. "SBC's next-generation network is highly sophisticated, and will require remote access equipment that is equally as sophisticated yet easily manageable, scalable and cost effective." AFC will provide SBC with its DMAX1120(TM) and EMAXplus(TM) multi-service access platforms, as well as AFC's environmentally hardened 240D and 672D outside plant cabinets. AFC's DMAX1120 and EMAXplus systems will allow SBC to quickly and cost-effectively modernize existing infrastructure and narrowband digital loop carriers (DLCs) throughout its outside plant network, providing a full suite of narrowband, broadband and wideband services which can be fed over fiber or copper transmissions. This announcement does not alter the projections AFC made during its public conference call held on Tuesday, October 24, 2000. Such call can be replayed by dialing 888-203-1112 and entering passcode 611991 through October 31, 2000, or by accessing AFC's website at www.afc.com.