AT&T, Omron Enter AgreementAT&T, Omron Enter Agreement

AT&T entered into a global agreement with Omron Corporation to optimize the performance of Omron's global network

April 25, 2007

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TOKYO -- AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) announcedtoday that AT&T had entered into a global agreement with Omron Corporation,(TSE: 6645; ADR: OMRNY), a worldwide leader in automation, sensing andcontrol technologies, to optimize the performance of Omron's globalnetwork. The agreement covers three years from April 2007.

Omron chose AT&T as a global network partner because of its excellenttrack record as a provider of networks between Omron's locations in theU.S., Europe and Asia Pacific and its ability to optimize the operation ofa global network.

In the first stage of the agreement AT&T will integrate all of Omron'snetworks in various regions, including Japan, into a single VPN networkprovided by AT&T. This will establish a single network infrastructure thatunderpins all of Omron's global IT systems.

In the second stage, the two companies will consider moving internetconnections, security, Internet Data Centers, operations managementservices, and other operations in various regions over to solutionsprovided by AT&T. By strengthening this relationship, Omron will be able toimprove network quality and cost performance substantially, whileestablishing a global IT system, which is operated and managed from Japanin a unified manner.

As part of the agreement AT&T has also secured an order for consultingservices concerning the performance of networks in India and Vietnam.

"We have been very impressed by AT&T's WAN at our overseas locations,"said Michiyasu Takata, Director of Omron Network Applications Corporation."We have chosen AT&T as an essential, mid-term partner for our shift toWAN- centered networks, which is part of a global overhaul of our ITarchitecture. In the future, we will consider expanding the scope of thispartnership to include other areas, such as security and Internet datacenters."

AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T)

Omron Corp. (Tokyo: 6645)

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