2. Number of Employees Notes : 1 Figures for NTT Consolidated do not include the No. of employees who retired / are retiring at the end of fiscal year and rehired / are being rehired 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 No. of employees who retired at the end of fiscal year and rehired at the beginning of next fiscal year, as described below:   - As of Mar. 31, 2004 (East Outsourcing Companies : 3,100 employees, West Outsourcing Companies : 3,300 employees) - As of Mar. 31, 2005 (East Outsourcing Companies : 2,550 employees, West Outsourcing Companies : 2,600 employees) - As of Mar. 31, 2006 (Forecast) (East Outsourcing Companies : 2,450 employees, West Outsourcing Companies : 2,350 employees) 3. Capital Investment Notes : 1 Figures for NTT East and NTT West include figures for Optical Access Network Investment. 2 Figures for capital investment of NTT consolidated and NTT DoCoMo (consolidated) 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 intangibles and other assets" in the consolidated statements of cash flows are as described in 7. Indices (Consolidated). Copyright (c) 2005 Nippon telegraph and telephone corporation