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To: zbyslaw owczarczyk who wrote (3800)	3/10/2002 9:41:30 AM
From: zbyslaw owczarczyk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3891

signed an exclusive and far reaching Global Master Purchasing Agreement (GMPA) to supply broadband switching products and services to the Deutsche Telekom Group, Europe's largest telecommunications company. The agreement, which covers all of Deutsche Telekom's operations, including their international subsidiaries and affiliates Siemens has no good products in this huge space so German operator went to France for help- NO MORE COMMENTS Alcatel 7670 Routing Switch Platform (RSP) to expand its national ATM data network backbone in Germany. The Alcatel 7670 RSP will allow Deutsche Telekom to scale existing multiservice networks from 12.8 Gb/s platform to 450 Gb/s to meet the demands placed on the core by consolidation of the different ATM-platforms. The contract also includes the industry-leading Alcatel 5620 Network Manager (NM) which will allow Deutsche Telekom to seamlessly integrate the new backbone network into their existing ATM edge/access network, and provide advanced functionality including ease of configuration, performance management, accounting, reporting and network security. With the 5620 NM, Deutsche Telekom AG customers will also be able to self-manage their Virtual Private Networks (VPN), allowing the operator to deliver-profitable services while reducing operational expenditures. "Deutsche Telekom's ability to consistently manage change and stay ahead of the technology curve has made them one of the world's largest and most advanced telecommunications service providers," said Alf-Henryk Wulf, Alcatel's global account director, Germany. "Alcatel will continue to work closely with Deutsche Telekom AG to support their network and their business." Deutsche Telekom Selects Alcatel as Supplier of Choice Global Master Purchase Agreement inaugurated with National Core Data Network contract with Germany's largest operator Paris, October 15, 2001 - Alcatel (Paris: CGEP.PA and NYSE: ALA) today announced that it has signed an exclusive and far reaching Global Master Purchasing Agreement (GMPA) to supply broadband switching products and services to the Deutsche Telekom Group, Europe's largest telecommunications company. The agreement, which covers all of Deutsche Telekom's operations, including their international subsidiaries and affiliates, demonstrates the carrier's ongoing commitment to the peerless carrier class reliability, quality of service and ease of provisioning offered by Alcatel's asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) technology. As a result of the GMPA, Alcatel today also announced that Deutsche Telekom has selected the Alcatel 7670 Routing Switch Platform (RSP) to expand its national ATM data network backbone in Germany. The Alcatel 7670 RSP will allow Deutsche Telekom to scale existing multiservice networks from 12.8 Gb/s platform to 450 Gb/s to meet the demands placed on the core by consolidation of the different ATM-platforms. The contract also includes the industry-leading Alcatel 5620 Network Manager (NM) which will allow Deutsche Telekom to seamlessly integrate the new backbone network into their existing ATM edge/access network, and provide advanced functionality including ease of configuration, performance management, accounting, reporting and network security. With the 5620 NM, Deutsche Telekom AG customers will also be able to self-manage their Virtual Private Networks (VPN), allowing the operator to deliver-profitable services while reducing operational expenditures. "Deutsche Telekom's ability to consistently manage change and stay ahead of the technology curve has made them one of the world's largest and most advanced telecommunications service providers," said Alf-Henryk Wulf, Alcatel's global account director, Germany. "Alcatel will continue to work closely with Deutsche Telekom AG to support their network and their business." The 7670 RSP provides the high scalability and port density requirements needed to meet the ever expanding DSL and customer premise bandwidth requirements of operators. The Alcatel 7670 RSP grants service provider requirements for high performance, and carrier-class reliability with the capability to perform MPLS-enabled ATM core switching. The GMPA, which also includes the Alcatel 7470 Multiservice Platform, Alcatel 7270 Multiservice Concentrator and Alcatel's MainStreet 3600+, follows Deutsche Telekom's recently announced contract with Alcatel to deliver SDH and WDM systems for the rapid expansion of its transmission network in Germany. About Deutsche Telekom Deutsche Telekom is Europe's largest communications company and one of the largest communications carriers worldwide based on 2000 revenues of 40.9 billion euros ($38.6 billion). Through T-Mobile, Deutsche Telekom's mobile telephony subsidiary, and through other subsidiaries and investments, Deutsche Telekom serves more than 58 million mobile telephony customers worldwide as of June 30, 2001. Deutsche Telekom offers its customers a complete range of fixed-line voice telephony products and services through more than 50 million access lines. Deutsche Telekom is a leading provider of high-speed digital access lines with more than 1.2 million (August 31, 2001) asymmetric digital subscriber line (T-DSL) services currently sold and 19.3 million channels using the information transfer standard ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) as of June 30, 2001. In online services, T-Online is Europe's largest Internet provider with approximately 9.2 million subscribers. In January 2001, Deutsche Telekom launched T-Systems, Europe's second-largest provider of comprehensive IT and telecommunications services to business customers in more than 20 countries. For more information about Deutsche Telekom, visit: telekom.de About Alcatel Alcatel builds next generation networks, delivering integrated end-to-end voice and data networking solutions to established and new carriers, as well as enterprises and consumers worldwide. With sales of EURO 31 billion in 2000 and 110,000 employees, Alcatel operates in more than 130 countries. Contact press@www.alcatel.com

To: zbyslaw owczarczyk who wrote (3800)	3/10/2002 10:57:17 AM
From: larry pollock	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3891

This is not an EXCLUSIVE agreement to purchase all of the indicated products from ALA. In addition, I have seen cases where multiple companies are deemed suppliers of choice. You should not believe that any telephone company will rely upon one single supplier for any one broad product line. zo, remember, SI's stock price is outperforming that of ALA.

To: zbyslaw owczarczyk who wrote (3800)	3/10/2002 2:16:23 PM
From: larry pollock	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3891

zo, your statement-No go and fing how much "new technology" business SI is doing with DT or VZ. VERY LITTLE." is impossible to determine. You are only picking up business agreements actually reported in the press. Nortel the other day announced a $500,000,000 agreement with Cingular, but, as stated in various releases, the agreement was actually signed last November 2001. Cingular wanted announcement of the agreement to be delayed. Alcatel's agreement with DT does not even appear on the DT web-site. DT never issued a press release here in the US, and maybe not even in Europe. If you are so confident about long-term growth for telecom spending, and the world economies do pick-up, then not only will ALA do well, but then SI might do even better due to its other businesses. By the way, another of your word errors-fing.