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Emergia Expands Connectivity from Brazil to European Cities

Marks One-year Milestone Servicing Brazilian Market with Event at Futurecom 2001

November 1, 2001 - Sao Paolo, Brazil - Emergia S.A., a subsidiary of Telefonica and provider of broadband infrastructure services for all of Latin America and the United States, today announced that it has expanded its connectivity from Brazil to additional cities across Europe including Madrid, Rome, London, Amsterdam. This expansion into more European markets coincides with the one-year anniversary of Emergia's presence in the Brazilian market. During Futurecom 2001, Emergia presented an event with Gilberto Gil and Neil Goldberg's Cirque performing in the Costao do Santinho Resort in Florianópolis

"We are extremely proud to have in such a short period of time, made the progress we have seen in the Brazilian market in just one year," said Mitsuo Shibata, Brazil Director for Emergia. "We continue to see tremendous growth opportunities for our world-class broadband infrastructure and services in Latin America, the USA and increasingly throughout Europe. In Brazil we have become a leader in delivering the industry's most advanced broadband services in the region"

Emergia completed laying it's SAM-1 fiber optic cable in March 2001 after investing $1.3 billion. The network, approximately 25,000 kilometers long, with an initial capacity of 40 gigabits per second, circles all of Latin America from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.

In July 2001, Emergia signed an agreement with LinkSat, a global communications systems integrator specializing in satellite and wireless. This agreement allowed Emergia to offer its submarine fiber optic network and also offer specialized, limited international and national services to an expanded market in Brazil.

Emergia's fiber optic ring, a pioneer in the America's, is self-healing and guarantees the highest quality, speed and reliability for voice and data traffic between the major cities in the continent. Through DWDM technology (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing), the circuit can be restored in the event of an interuption in any section of the submarine cable. Because the ring has a self-healing capacity, the information reacts to failures in less than 300 milliseconds and travels in the other direction of the ring.

Since launching the largest and most extensive fiber optic system linking Latin America with the US in March 2001, Emergia has aggressively expanded its presence in Latin America, the US and Europe. In Brazil, the company has completed numerous projects including service of its cable landing stations in Santos, Rio de Janeiro, Fortaleza and Salvador. Additionally, one of Emergia's network operations centers (eNOC) is located in Santos, Brazil. These centers provide system-wide surveillance, troubleshooting and maintenance 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Emergia's target market includes leading Internet service providers, cable television providers, international telephone carriers, data service providers and Latin American telephone carriers.



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