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Article: AT&T Wins Global Networking Contract From the Associated Press; Integrated global networking platform offers efficiencies, lower costs.
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- PR Newswire
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- October 14, 2003
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BEDMINSTER, N.J., Oct. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- AT&T today announced it was awarded a $2 million, three-year global networking contract from The Associated Press (AP), the world's largest newsgathering organization. AT&T will provide an integrated data networking infrastructure in the form of a single, seamless global IP virtual private network (VPN) that will connect the AP's 242 bureaus worldwide, which serve 15,000 news outlets in 121 countries.
The contract expands the two companies' existing relationship, under which AT&T provides AP's domestic Wide Area Network (WAN) infrastructure, in addition to long distance and local voice services.
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