KDDI Corp., the nation's No. 2 telecom operator, announced Friday its earnings results for fiscal 2000, which ended in March.

It reported pretax profits of 50.55 billion yen and net profits of 13.43 billion yen on group sales totaling 2.27 trillion yen.

KDDI was established in October after the merger of telecom firm DDI Corp. with KDD Corp. and IDO Corp.