Akamai Announces Date to Release Financial Results for Second Quarter 2001


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - July 3, 2001 - Akamai Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKAM), the leading provider of distributed application and content delivery services, announced today that the Company will release second quarter financial results after the market closes on Wednesday, July 18, 2001. The Company will hold an investor call shortly after the release has been issued to discuss the quarter's financial results. A live webcast of the call will be available and accessible from the Company's website at www.akamai.com.

About Akamai
Akamai is the leading provider of distributed application and content delivery services. These services enable companies to reduce the complexity and cost of deploying and operating a uniform Web infrastructure while ensuring unmatched performance, reliability, scalability and manageability. Akamai's services give businesses a distinct competitive advantage and provide an unparalleled Internet experience for their customers. Akamai's intelligent edge platform for content, streaming media, and application delivery comprises more than 9,700 servers within 650 networks in more than 56 countries. With headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Akamai provides services to more than 1,400 companies worldwide. For information on Delivering a Better InternetSM, visit www.akamai.com.

Akamai Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
The release contains information about future expectations and plans of Akamai's management that constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results and events may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors including, but not limited to, issues arising in connection with the closing of the Company's books for the second quarter, the complexity of its service and the networks on which the service is deployed and other factors that are discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.