AT&T and Continental Sign Global Network Contract

FRANKFURT, Germany, April 11 -- AT&T Inc. today announced that Continental, a leading automotive supplier, has extended an existing network contract with AT&T for an additional three years. AT&T will operate a Virtual Private Network (VPN) at more than 230 Continental sites in 34 countries.(1) The overall contract includes services worth several millions of U.S. dollars and continues the existing business relationship of the two companies.

AT&T will operate and maintain an MPLS-based wide area network for Continental and provide services such as hosting key business applications for central backup solutions. AT&T will connect smaller sites to the network with fast and flexible DSL connections. All components of the Continental wide area network will be integrated into one unified end-to-end solution by AT&T.

"After a long-standing relationship with AT&T, it was easy for us to make the decision to put the responsibility for our worldwide network into AT&T's hands," says Paul Schwefer, CIO of Continental AG. "AT&T has demonstrated its extensive global reach with a presence in all of our target markets, and the company has showed itself to be very flexible and reliable in operating our enterprise network and handling network services."

Frank Pieper, managing director of AT&T Germany and sales vice president for Germany, Austria and Switzerland, explains the importance of the agreement with the automotive supplier. "Continental is one of our most important clients in Germany and around the world. We are focused on serving the networking needs of multinational companies, like Continental, with global network services -- a commitment we have reinforced recently with our announcement that we are investing $750 million this year in our international business."

About Continental

The Continental Corporation is a leading automotive supplier of tires, brake systems, chassis components, vehicle electronics and technical elastomers. In 2006 the corporation realised sales of EUR14.9 billion. At present it has a worldwide workforce of approximately 85,000. Further information can be found via the Internet at http://www.conti-online.com/.

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  (1) Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Czech Rep., Denmark,
      Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy,
      Japan, Korea (South), Malaysia, Mexico, Norway, Philippines, Portugal,
      Romania, Russia, Slovak Republic, South Africa, Spain, Sweden,
      Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States.