GANNETT Awards Multiyear Contract to XO

GANNETT, the largest newspaper group in the U.S., awarded a multi-year network services agreement to XO Communications. Under the contract, XO will provide critical links on GANNETT's network backbone between its east and west coast data centers. XO will also provide GANNETT with Dedicated Internet Access/Gigabit Ethernet connections that will be the means over which GANNETT will receive and disseminate multimedia and other news information on a global basis. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.xo.com