2. Employees Notes : 1 Figures for NTT Consolidated do not include the number of employees who retired / are retiring at the end of fiscal year and rehired / are rehiring at the beginning of next fiscal year. 2 Figures for East Outsourcing Companies and West Outsourcing Companies include figures for companies in the facilities and equipment field, management and marketing field and administrative field. Figures for those companies include the number of employees who retired at the end of fiscal year and rehired at the beginning of next fiscal year, as described below: - At the end of fiscal year ended March 31, 2004 (East Outsourcing Companies : 3,100 employees, West Outsourcing Companies : 3,300 employees) - At the end of fiscal year ending March 31, 2005 (East Outsourcing Companies : 2,500 employees, West Outsourcing Companies : 2,550 employees) 3. Capital Investment Notes : Figures for capital investment are the accrual-based amounts required for acquisition of fixed assets and intangibles. The differences from the figures for "Payments for property, plant and equipment" and "Acquisition of intangible and other assets" in the consolidated statements of cash flows are as described in reconciliation below. Copyright (c) 2004 Nippon telegraph and telephone corporation