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Australia Japan Cable operates a multi-award winning submarine cable network linking Australia to the rapidly expanding Internet and data world.

Demand for high quality international bandwidth from Australia is growing at an unprecedented rate. In order to provide customers with an unparalleled combination of speed, quality and value, Australia Japan Cable offers – for the first time - high speed submarine optical fibre capacity between Australia and Japan , with additional connectivity in Guam .

In the Northern Hemisphere, high capacity, low cost information super-highways link North America, Asia and Europe . Australia is directly connected to these information super-highways via the 12,700 km Australia Japan Cable network along a proven historically safe route.

At 320 + 320Gb/s, Australia Japan Cable is Australia 's largest design capacity link with the emerging global e-economy. Our network architecture, combined with the latest technology, ensures we meet customer demands for voice, high speed data and multimedia service capacity at competitive prices.

www.ajcable.com

Alcatel-Lucent provides solutions that enable service providers, enterprises and governments worldwide, to deliver voice, data and video communication services to end-users. As a leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband networking, IP technologies, applications, and services, Alcatel-Lucent offers the end-to-end solutions that enable compelling communications services for people at home, at work and on the move. With 79,000 employees and operations in more than 130 countries, Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with global reach. The company has the most experienced global services team in the industry, and one of the largest research, technology and innovation organizations in the telecommunications industry. Alcatel-Lucent achieved proforma combined revenues of Euro 18.6 billion in 2005. With more than 461,500 km of installed submarine networks, Alcatel-Lucent has played a key role in the development and implementation of the most important submarine cable networks in operation today. For more information, visit Alcatel-Lucent on the Internet:

http://www.alcatel-lucent.com

Apollo is the world's most advanced transatlantic submarine fibre optic cable system running from London to New York and Paris to Washington D.C.

The Apollo system has the greatest design capacity of any system in the Atlantic.

Apollo incorporates four fibre pairs throughout its 13,000 km length and provides data transmission at 10Gbit/s through Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) and offers a variety of wavelength products including the latest Ethernet services. The unique engineering of Apollo allows an ultimate capacity of at least 3.2 Tbit/s. It comprises of two fully diverse submarine cables with four fibre pairs in each. Each fibre pair is capable of being upgraded to at least 80x10Gbit/s wavelengths.

The network is owned by Apollo Submarine Cable System Limited, a UK based company jointly owned by Cable & Wireless (www.cw.com) and Alcatel-Lucent (www.alcatel-lucent.com).

The Apollo cable system was completed in 2003. During the planning, design, construction and commissioning of the system, Cable & Wireless' unrivalled knowledge of the submarine cable business and Alcatel-Lucent's leading edge technology were brought together to create the world's most advanced transatlantic cable system.

The Apollo Cable System is operated and managed by Apollo Submarine Cable System Ltd, a joint venture company based in Covent Garden, London, WC2.

www.apollo-scs.com

BT is one of the world's leading providers of communications solutions serving customers in Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific. Our principal activities include networked IT services, local, national and international telecommunications services, and higher-value broadband and internet products and services. BT serves over 20 million customers as well as providing network services to other licensed operators. With network coverage in over 200 countries across 5 continents, BT specializes in flexible and innovative services based upon open systems to meet the challenges, and grasp the opportunities, its customer's face in the digital networked economy. Our portfolio ranges from desktop and network equipment and software, transport and connectivity, IP-based e-business solutions, and managed network services and system integration to consultancy for complex global requirements.

www.bt.com

Cable & Wireless is one of the world's leading international communications companies. It provides fixed and mobile voice, data, IP (Internet Protocol) and broadband services to business and residential customers, as well as services to other telecoms carriers, mobile operators and providers of content, applications and internet services.

Cable & Wireless' principal operations are in the United Kingdom, the Caribbean, Panama, Macau and Monaco.

www.cw.com

The EGS Survey Group provides innovative engineering geophysical, oceanographic and environmental survey services to the submarine telecommunication, power and pipeline industries worldwide. Specialising in supporting the submarine telecommunications industry; EGS has carried out more than 300,000 route kilometres of survey from across rivers to across the world’s oceans.

EGS offers full cable route planning and engineering capability including:

• Feasibility studies and provisional route planning and selection
• Pre survey Pipeline and Cable Route Studies and Route Engineering
• Design of route survey specifications and procedures
• Route survey and burial assessment
• Final route engineering

www.egssurvey.com

FLAG Telecom, a Reliance Group company, is a leading provider of international transport and data services to communications and Internet communities across the globe. FLAG owns and manages an extensive optical fibre network spanning four continents and connecting key business markets in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the USA. FLAG also owns and operates a low latency global MPLS based IP network, which connects most of the world's principal international Internet exchanges. FLAG offers a focused range of global products, including global bandwidth, IP, Internet, Ethernet and Co-location services to its established customer base of more than 180 leading operators.

www.flagtelecom.com

France Telecom is one of the world's leading telecommunications carriers, with more than 126 million customers on the five continents (220 countries and territories) at March 31, 2005 and consolidated revenues of 46.16 billion euros for 2004 (under IFRS GAAP). For the Q1 2005, consolidated revenues totaled 11.62 billion euros (under IFRS GAAP). Through its major international brands, including Orange, Wanadoo, Equant and GlobeCast, France Telecom provides businesses, consumers and other carriers with a complete portfolio of solutions that spans local, long-distance and international telephony, wireless, Internet, multimedia, data, broadcast. France Telecom is the second-largest wireless operator and Internet access provider in Europe, and a world leader in telecommunications solutions for multinational corporations. France Telecom (NYSE: FTE) is listed on the Paris and New York stock exchanges.

www.francetelecom.com/wholesalesolutions

Fujitsu is a leading provider of customer-focused IT and communications solutions for the global marketplace. Pace-setting device technologies, highly reliable computing and communications products, and a worldwide corps of systems and services experts uniquely position Fujitsu to deliver comprehensive solutions that open up infinite possibilities for its customers' success. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of 5.1 trillion yen (US$43.2 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2007.

In the submarine cable industry, Fujitsu is one of the most experienced players in the world. In 1969, Fujitsu developed the very first Japanese coaxial submarine cable system, and since then, Fujitsu has installed more than 70 submarine cable systems around the globe. Fujitsu provides planning, design, installation, commissioning, and project management services to complete full-turn-key projects of any size, on time and to the full satisfaction of our customers.Fujitsu is also a leading supplier for systems upgrade projects with highly reliable technologies and excellent engineering performance.

Fujitsu Limited: www.fujitsu.com

Submarine Networks: www.fujitsu.com/global/services/telecom/optical/submarine

Global Marine has been in business for well over a century and continues to be the pre-eminent provider of submarine cable installation and maintenance services in the world. We are self-funding, independent, and can offer every element of the planning, installation and maintenance process around the globe. We're able to provide a comprehensive, tailored solution for our customers throughout the life of their submarine network systems and the combination of the unparalleled technical expertise of our workforce and access to vessels and ROVs has enabled us to oversee many of the industry's most complex projects for over 150 years.

www.globalmarinesystems.com

Google's innovative search technologies connect millions of people around the world with information every day. Founded in 1998 by Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google today is a top web property in all major global markets. Google's targeted advertising program provides businesses of all sizes with measurable results, while enhancing the overall web experience for users. Google is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. For more information, please visit http://www.google.com.

NEC Corporation is one of the world's leading providers of Internet, broadband network and enterprise business solutions dedicated to meeting the specialized needs of its diverse and global base of customers. The NEC Group employs more than 150,000 people worldwide and had net sales of 4,652 billion yen (approx. US $41 billion) in the fiscal year ended March 2007. In the submarine systems industries, NEC is among the world leaders for its innovative technologies and excellent track records, having successfully completed many of the world's most important cable systems.

www.nec.com

Southern Cross Cable Network provides the fastest, most direct, and most secure international bandwidth from Australia, New Zealand and Hawaii to the heart of the Internet in the USA. Southern Cross has the huge capacity bandwidth required for the widespread adoption of broadband in its markets.

Southern Cross is currently delivering 240 gigabit/s of fully protected bandwidth, which will shortly be upgraded to 430gigabit/s, but has the potential to increase to 2.4 Tbps, as demand growth requires.

With offices in Bermuda, Sydney, Auckland and Wellington, Southern Cross has potential to provide for Australasia's growing bandwidth requirements and is fuelling the broadband revolution.

www.southerncrosscables.com

Tata Communications Limited along with its global subsidiaries (Tata Communications) is a leading global provider of the new world of communications. The company leverages its Tata Global Network, vertical intelligence and leadership in emerging markets, to deliver value-driven, globally managed solutions to the Fortune 1000 and mid-sized enterprises, service providers and consumers.

The Tata Communications portfolio includes transmission, IP, converged voice, mobility, managed network connectivity, hosted data center, communications solutions and business transformation services to global and Indian enterprises & service providers as well as, broadband and content services to Indian consumers. The Tata Global Network encompasses one of the most advanced and largest submarine cable networks, a Tier-1 IP network, connectivity to more than 200 countries across 300 PoPs and more than one million square feet data center space. Tata Communications serves its customers from its offices in 80 cities in 40 countries worldwide. Tata Communications has a strategic investment in South African operator Neotel, providing the company with a strong anchor to build an African footprint.

The number one global international wholesale voice operator and number one provider of International Long Distance, Enterprise Data and Internet Services in India, the company was named "Best Wholesale Carrier" at the World Communications Awards in 2006 and was named the "Best Pan-Asian Wholesale Provider" at the 2007 Capacity Magazine Global Wholesale Telecommunications Awards for the second consecutive year.

Becoming the leading integrated provider to drive and deliver a new world of communications, Tata Communications became the unified global brand for VSNL, VSNL International, Teleglobe, Tata Indicom Enterprise Business Unit and CIPRIS on February 13, 2008.

Tata Communications Ltd. is a part of the $29 billion Tata Group; it is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange of India and its ADRs are listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:TCL).

www.tatacommunications.com

As one of the world's leading telecommunications and information technology service providers, Deutsche Telekom AG is setting international standards.

Deutsche Telekom offers millions of private and corporate customers all over the world the entire spectrum of modern information technology and telecommunications services - whether fixed-network, wireless and broadband or complex IT and telecommunications (ICT) solutions for business customers.

Benefit for the customer is at the center of all of Deutsche Telekom's activities. The goal is to make Deutsche Telekom the best and most recognized service company in the industry. That means products and services tailored to the customer's requirements, first-class network quality and a considerable improvement in efficiency.

Integrated company

Deutsche Telekom provides network access, communication services and value-added services with ever increasing bandwidth via fixed and mobile networks. With innovative products and services, the company promotes the personal and social networking between people. There are three customer brands under the global umbrella brand "T": T-Home for all products and services at home; T-Mobile for products and services while on the go; and the brand T-Systems offers medium to large-sized customers ICT solutions around the world.

The focus of T-Home is on the high-growth broadband market with top customer care and retention in voice and data communication. The fixed network paves the way for increasingly higher bandwidths and interactive services, such as the IPTV product Entertain, and is the starting point for the continuing convergence of IT and telecommunications services.

T-Mobile is where Deutsche Telekom bundles its mobile communications activities. T-Mobile International AG is one of the world's leading mobile communications providers, with more than 110 million customers in Europe and the United States. Here, too, the focus of further development is on mobile broadband services with innovative voice and data solutions, such as the mobile Internet service web'n'walk or the social networking feature MyFaves.

T-Systems, Deutsche Telekom's business customer brand, offers multinational corporations and around 160,000 large and medium-sized companies within Germany integrated ICT solutions from one source.

Internationalization and sustainability

As an internationally oriented company, Deutsche Telekom AG is represented in about 50 countries around the globe. More than half of the revenues from the first half-year of 2007 were generated outside of Germany. The Group is committed to the principles of sustainability and uses economic as well as social and ecological criteria as the basis for its actions. With its environmental and social performance, Deutsche Telekom is regularly at the top of international sustainability indexes.

www.t-com.de

Tyco Telecommunications, a business unit of Tyco Electronics, is the industry pioneer in undersea communications technology and marine services. Drawing on its heritage of technical innovation and industry recognized performance, the company delivers the most reliable, high-quality solutions to organizations with undersea communications needs vital to their core mission. Based in Morristown, NJ, Tyco Telecommunications is dedicated to providing organizations around the world with total solutions and support for undersea optical systems.

www.tycotelecom.com