1. Asia Pacific International Data Services Pricing & Analysis ‘Pricing Is Key’ © 2005 Frost & Sullivan. All rights reserved. This document contains highly confidential information and is the sole property of Frost & Sullivan. No part of it may be circulated, quoted, copied or otherwise reproduced without the written approval of Frost & Sullivan. Bryan Wang, Program Leader, Data Services Telecom Practice, Asia Pacific

2. Research Coverage Report includes an overall APAC chapter & 8 country-specific chapters for base year 2004 covering: Market overview Competitive Analysis Pricing Trends Pricing for wholesale & retail international data services market Australia Taiwan South Korea People’s Republic of China India Malaysia Singapore Hong Kong

3. Research Overview Study on international data services of International Private Leased Circuit (IPLC), Frame Relay (FR), Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), IP Transit & Internet Protocol Virtual Private Network (IP VPN) Analysis of the competitive positioning of major international data service providers based on service portfolio, network coverage, financial stability, pricing strategy & other competencies Study period: Q3 2004 Analysis based discussions with all major domestic & international data service providers participating in this study

4. Research Methodology 30 interviews with leading international data service providers across APAC 25 interviews with large/medium- size customers in APAC Design discussion guide develop contact database Unique bottom-up supply-side research approach

5. Definition and Market Overview Report covers pricing information for 8 major countries in the categories below for base year 2004 International Retail Data Services IPLC Frame Relay ATM IP VPN International Wholesale Data Services IPLC IP Transit Most Frequently Contracted Bandwidth

6. International service providers AT&T MCI Equant British Telecom / Infonet Regional service providers Asia Netcom SingTel PCCW-HKT Limited NTT Communications KDDI Telstra Domestic service providers in respective country markets Major Service Providers

7. 10 global/regional data service providers in the Asia Pacific region are benchmarked in this report: MCI NTT PCCW SingTel Telstra Asia Netcom AT&T British Telecom / Infonet Equant KDDI Market Positioning Benchmarking