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To: Paul Lee who wrote (152)	4/24/2002 1:16:54 PM
From: CIMA	Respond to of 162

Cable & Wireless, Cisco Sign 4-Year IP Agreement (djones) Edited Press Release LONDON -(Dow Jones)- Cable & Wireless , the global telecommunications group, Wednesday announced a four-year strategic relationship with Cisco Systems . The agreements aim is to accelerate the development and expansion of Cable & Wireless' Internet Protocol-based communications services through a technical and marketing agreement that includes the build out of a global Cisco Powered Network combined with joint marketing and sales initiatives, for both the indirect and direct channels, as well as cooperation in developing concepts for next generation products and services. This agreement will focus specifically on data and voice convergence solutions. Through its relationship with Cisco, Cable & Wireless plan to be the first to provide both fully-managed local area network and wide area network components for a single IP platform required to support the latest advancements in desktop- to-desktop data, video and voice communications on a global basis. The services, which Cable & Wireless will develop with Cisco's cooperation, branded Cable & Wireless IP Convergence solutions, will offer businesses the ability to converge their data and voice network over a single IP infrastructure. (This story was originally published by Dow Jones Newswires) Copyright (c) 2002 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved If you no longer wish to receive this Alert, click here to turn off this alert. Disclaimer The information in this alert is provided by Bell Globemedia Interactive from other third party sources. It is not verified by TD Waterhouse Investor Services (Canada) ("TD Waterhouse") its subsidiaries and their employees assume no liability for the accuracy, completeness or timeliness of the information provided. Copyright © 2002 Bell Globemedia Interactive. All rights reserved.

To: Paul Lee who wrote (152)	4/29/2002 2:21:48 PM
From: CIMA	Respond to of 162

Enhances Service Level Agreements For Dedicated Internet Access 4/29/02 CABLE & WIRELESS PLC ("CWP-BHDNX3") - Enhances Service Level Agreements For Dedicated Internet Access Cable & Wireless Strengthens Regional and Global Latency Performance and Expands SLA to Include Local Loop Cable & Wireless, the global telecommunications group, announced enhanced service level agreements (SLAs) for its dedicated high-speed Internet access services over its global Internet Protocol (IP) network. The enhanced SLAs offer customers of Cable & Wireless Internet Access and Cable & Wireless global.net services lower network latency within North America and Europe. Global business customers benefit from the industry's first network latency provisions for extended global routes between North America and Europe and between Europe and Asia-Pacific region. Cable & Wireless has also extended its SLA to cover local loop connections. "Cable & Wireless has engineered its global IP network to deliver the highest quality performance and reliability for large enterprises, content providers and other service providers," said Andy MacLeod, chief operating officer, Cable & Wireless Global. "The strength of our global IP network enables Cable & Wireless to offer customers the strongest combination of performance, transparency and credible guarantees on price and service consistently around the world." Latency Cable & Wireless now offers the following average monthly roundtrip latency for traffic within Cable & Wireless' global IP network: Intra-North America: 50 ms Intra-Europe: 50 ms Europe to North American Routes: New York to London: 100 ms Amsterdam, Brussels, Frankfurt, and Paris in Europe to New York and Washington DC in the US: 110 ms North America to Asia-Pacific Routes: San Francisco to Tokyo: 165 ms San Francisco to Sydney: 180 ms Europe to Asia-Pacific Routes: Amsterdam, Brussels, Frankfurt, London and Paris in Europe to Tokyo in Japan: 310 ms Local Loop SLA Cable & Wireless now offers customers of Cable & Wireless Internet Access and Cable & Wireless global.net an SLA covering availability of their local loop connection. Together with the existing Cable & Wireless IP network availability, this enhancement will give customers service quality assurance from the Cable & Wireless core IP network to the local loop connection at the customer premise. Web-based SLA Publication In an effort to give customers the immediate benefit of improvements Cable & Wireless makes to its SLAs, Cable & Wireless has introduced a web-based component to its SLA contracts. Whenever an SLA improvement is posted on Cable & Wireless' SLA web site, customers will automatically benefit from those improvements rather than having to sign new SLA contracts. Online Network Performance and Reporting A pioneer in real-time online network performance tools, Cable & Wireless provides customers real-time global IP network performance and reporting at cw.com. Cable & Wireless also offers a new online simulation tool, Packet Loss Calculator, where customers can see how the superior performance of Cable & Wireless IP transit services, compared to competitors' services, gives customers value for money. The Packet Loss Calculator is available at cw.com. Credits Cable & Wireless backs its SLAs with competitive credits. In the event that Cable & Wireless fails to meet the average monthly network-wide latency and/or one percent packet loss service levels, the customer is entitled to a three-day pro-rated credit of the monthly recurring port charge. In the event that the Cable & Wireless IP network is not available for 10 or more consecutive minutes because of a local loop ordered or provisioned by Cable & Wireless, the customer is entitled to a one-day pro-rated credit of the monthly recurring local loop charge. If the local loop outage lasts for more than one hour, the customer is entitled to a one-day pro-rated credit for each hour of downtime. In the event of an outage in the Cable & Wireless IP network for 10 or more minutes, the customer is entitled to a one-day pro-rated credit of the monthly recurring port charge. If the outage lasts for more than one hour, the customer is entitled to a one-day pro-rated credit for each hour of downtime. Cable & Wireless is upgrading its core global IP network to OC-192 capacity using multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) for traffic engineering. Currently, seven network nodes across the US, UK and Europe operate at OC-192 capacity: New York; Washington, DC; London; Paris; Brussels; Amsterdam and Frankfurt. In the second quarter of 2002, Cable & Wireless will bring an additional five network nodes within the US to OC-192 capacity using MPLS. The network upgrade significantly improves the quality of service Cable & Wireless can offer customers and further reinforces the company's leadership position for providing superior network performance, quality and reach, consistently around the globe, via its tier one global IP network. About Cable & Wireless Cable & Wireless is a major global telecommunications business with revenue of over 8 billion pounds sterling (US$11 billion) in the year to 31 March 2001 and customers in 70 countries and consists of two core and complementary divisions: Cable & Wireless Regional and Cable & Wireless Global. Cable & Wireless Regional offers a full range of telecommunications services in 35 countries around the world. Cable & Wireless Global's focus for future growth is on IP (internet protocol) and data services and solutions for business customers. It has developed advanced IP networks and value-added services in the US, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region in support of this strategy. With its financial strength and the capability of its global IP infrastructure, Cable & Wireless holds a unique position in terms of global coverage and services to business customers. For more information about Cable & Wireless, go to cw.com.

To: Paul Lee who wrote (152)	5/15/2002 3:12:03 AM
From: CIMA	Respond to of 162

C&W chairman departs, £4bn writedown, results in line Cable & Wireless (London: CW.L - news - msgs) , the UK-based telecoms provider, announced on Wednesday full-year results in line with a February revenue warning. It said its chairman would step down at the end of the year. The company also wrote down its fixed assets by £2bn, mainly in its Global IP data services division, and wrote down goodwill by £2bn relating to acquisitions made between 1998 and 2000. C&W said Sir Ralph Robins would be replaced as chairman by David Nash, a non-executive director. Robert Lerwill, Finance Director, would relinquish that role and concentrate on his other post of chief executive of the Regional business. Group revenues for the year were £5.91bn and there was a profit before tax, exceptionals and goodwill amortisation of £61m. Looking ahead, the company said revenues in the Global division in the current half should be flat to 10 per cent higher than the previous half.