North Carolina Utilities Commission Selects Telcordia Technologies for Number Pooling Trial.

Business/Technology Editors

MORRISTOWN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 2, 2001

Telcordia Technologies Center for Number Pooling 

Administration (TCNPA) to Provide Solution for Mandatory

State Trial in North Carolina 

Communications software and solutions provider Telcordia Technologies, Inc. announced today that it has been selected by the North Carolina Utilities Commission as the pooling administrator for the state's mandatory thousands-block number pooling trial for the 704/980 area codes. The trial has a mandatory start date of September 15, 2001. The trial will affect the Charlotte area of North Carolina.

The Telcordia Center for Number Pooling Administration (TCNPA) includes a state of the art system that allows for online applications, data validation and reports during the pooling trial. The center is supported by the technical and software development experts of Telcordia. The TCNPA serves as pooling administrator for trials in Tennessee, Washington, Virginia, and California.

"We look forward to serving the North Carolina Utilities Commission as the pooling administrator for the 704/980 area codes," said Richard Harrison, general manager, Telcordia Number Planning and Administration. "The Telcordia Center for Number Pooling Administration (TCNPA) will support the unique needs of the NC Commission by providing a state of the art system that will allow for online applications, data validation and reports during a pooling trial."

Carriers were formerly assigned phone numbers in blocks of 10,000 on a rate center basis, which would potentially strand large quantities of numbers and cause a shortage of central office codes and area codes. This shortage would cause frequent area code changes and ultimately lead to a premature exhaust of the North American Numbering Plan (NANP). Thousands-block number pooling is a number resource optimization technique. A pooling system provides more efficient numbering resource management and extends the life of area codes by allocating resources in blocks of 1,000 instead of 10,000.

Telcordia Technologies, known in the industry for its numbering administration expertise, has participated in the development of industry guidelines for thousands-block number pooling administration and implementation of telecommunications initiatives. In addition, Telcordia served for 14 years as the impartial administrator of NANP, provides the software for numbering administration in Canada, and continues to play a leading role in industry forums addressing key numbering issues, and policies.

On February 19, 2001, the North Carolina Utilities Commission issued an Order, in DOCKET NO. P-100, SUB 137, announcing Telcordia as Pooling Administrator for the mandatory trial in the 704/980 NPAs and setting an implementation schedule.

For further information about the Telcordia Center for Pooling Administration, visit www.telcordia.com/TCNPA

About Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

Telcordia Technologies, Inc., an SAIC company, is one of the world's largest providers of operations support systems, network software and consulting and engineering services to the telecommunications industry. A leader in the development of Next Generation Network technologies, Telcordia employs more than 7,000 professionals, and has revenues of more than $1.5 billion. Telcordia (www.telcordia.com) is headquartered in Morristown, NJ with offices throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Central and South America and Asia Pacific.

Telcordia Technologies is a wholly owned subsidiary of SAIC. Statements in this announcement other than historical data and information constitute forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause our actual results, performance, achievements or industry results to be very different from the results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Some of these factors include, but are not limited to, the risk factors set forth in the SAIC Annual Report on Form 10-K for the period ended January 31, 2000. Due to such uncertainties and risks, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof.