AT&T and Lucent Technologies will deliver the sights and sounds of the 1996 Republican National Convention.

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 30, 1996--The eyes and ears of the world will be on the 1996 Republican National Convention this summer when AT&T and Lucent Technologies provide the GOP with state-of-the-art communications.

``As the technology partners for this convention, AT&T and Lucent Technologies have the opportunity to showcase advanced global telecommunications technology to all convention participants,'' said Christine Myers, AT&T director of the 1996 Republican National Convention and leader of the AT&T-Lucent team serving the convention.

The comprehensive telecommunications package for the convention consists of technology and services from AT&T, Lucent Technologies and NCR. During convention week, Aug. 12-15, more than 15,000 participants will have access to individually customized Lucent phones that will support simultaneous long-distance voice, data and video calls over AT&T's network.

AT&T's and Lucent's technology and technicians will assist a variety of clients during the event, including television networks and hundreds of out-of-town affiliates that will use AT&T high- capacity cable (satellites provide backup) to transmit broadcast feeds back to their home studios.

Exciting projects under way include the development of both an Internet service to take ``real-time'' news of the convention to both participants and the world, and an ``Intranet'' presence that will operate as a closed system and circulate scheduling and other internal RNC information to those running the event.

As part of the comprehensive communications package, the Republican National Convention's Committee on Arrangements' offices have been equipped with leading-edge computers, AT&T long-distance services and Lucent Technologies' digital-telephone systems.

In addition, the San Diego and Washington, D.C., convention offices and venues have been connected with multipoint video- conferencing capabilities and an AT&T InterSpan frame-relay data service.

A political-convention first for AT&T, this frame-relay connection makes a call from RNC offices in San Diego to RNC offices in Washington as easy as dialing the extension of a co-worker down the hall.

At the convention's peak, AT&T and Lucent will have 150 employees working full-time on RNC activities along with 200 volunteers. The Lucent and AT&T technicians, managers and service attendants will serve the television networks, print media, delegates and political customers. Volunteers will staff a host of AT&T, Lucent and NCR-sponsored service areas, including:

-- A media filing center where the media can drop by to use

a telephone, computer or fax, or access the Internet to file a

story by e-mail;

-- Welcome centers inside the Convention Center perimeter to

provide restaurant reservations, brochures about San Diego,

schedules of events and extras such as bandages and aspirin;

-- Telecommunications service centers in the Convention Center,

Marriott Hotel & Marina and Hyatt Regency San Diego.

To create a robust, stand-alone telecommunications platform, AT&T and Lucent are wiring the San Diego Convention Center and all convention-related venues with more than 1 million feet of cable.

Those wiring improvements will support an array of customized equipment, including ISDN lines and Lucent's latest Definity Enterprise Communications Server G3R digital telephone switch to serve the Dole campaign, RNC and delegates.

The platform also will support Lucent's Intuity AUDIX Voice Messaging System, which includes fax manager, message manager software and a directory accessed through computer-telephone integration. Finally, AT&T will have available for use on the system NCR Pentium laptops that include wireless computer options.

The Republican National Convention's selection of AT&T and Lucent Technologies as technology partners for the 1996 convention demonstrates the companies' pre-eminent position in global telecommunications. AT&T has handled the telephone services for every national political convention this century and has provided White House communications services since 1929.

``AT&T and Lucent Technologies are proud to bring their most sophisticated equipment and services to the 1996 Republican National Convention,'' said Myers. ``Both companies are committed to making this Republican National Convention the finest ever.'' -0-

              THE 1996 REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION
            Fun Facts From AT&T and Lucent Technologies

-- 15 million minutes in long-distance voice, video and data calling
   expected on AT&T network

-- 1 million feet of cable installed by AT&T and Lucent

-- 100,000 calls per hour expected to be handled by Lucent Definity
   G3R server

-- 90,000 minutes' ($40,500) worth of prepaid AT&T calling cards
   (6,000 cards) will be distributed

-- 15,000 Lucent telephones and AT&T computers will be installed at
   three locations

-- 7,000 resource hours invested by AT&T and Lucent technicians in
   wiring the convention center

-- 500 computers and related equipment provided by AT&T Capital Corp.

-- 350 AT&T, Lucent and NCR employees and volunteers

-- 150 computer-modem connections at AT&T media filing center

-- 20 NCR kiosks with touch-screen information on San Diego
   restaurants, hotels and sites

-- Four RNC offices across the country connected by high-speed AT&T
   network

-- Three sites -- the convention center and two headquarters hotels
   -- connected in a ``virtual venue''

-- AT&T-designed RNC Web site -- the first-ever RNC Internet home
   page

CONTACT: AT&T

Bruce Reid, 619/699-2311

or

Lucent Technologies

Mike Alva, 510/815-8121