Alcatel Shanghai Bell has signed an agreement with China Netcom Group to supply more than 400,000 ADSL lines. The contract covers deployment of the Alcatel 7300 Advanced Services Access Manager (ASAM) and management to China Netcom subsidiaries in ten areas in northern China, including Beijing, Liaoning and Shandong. All ten projects will be completed by March 2004.
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- Earlier this month, UTStarcom announced a new contract to supply over 200,000 lines of its AN-2000 IB IP-based DSLAM solution to China Netcom for deployment in several major cities in the Heilongjiang, Tiangjin, Hebei, Shangdong, and Shanxi provinces. The contract brings UTStarcom's total IP-DSLAM deployments with CNC to more than 400,000 ADSL lines since March 2003.
