Tuesday, March 16, 2004

Lucent Announces $300 Million in European Contracts

At CeBIT 2004, Lucent Technologies announced contracts worth more than US$300 million (EUR 250 million) to provide fixed line and mobile service providers in Europe with next-generation services and solutions. These include:

  • T-Com -- for a next-generation voice network pilot project; as well as to expand capacity on its optical transport network. Lucent will also provide a multi-vendor optical network management solution


  • T-Mobile Germany -- for UMTS PC card modems developed with Novatel to support mobile high-speed data services


  • KPN -- solutions and services to upgrade telephony infrastructure


  • Telefonica -- for collaboration on its next-generation "Imagenio" multimedia broadband service; and Lucent's LambdaUnite Multiservice Switch will be used to upgrade its national optical backbone


  • Telefonica Móviles Espaňa -- s network management software for roll-out of mobile data services


  • Telekomunikacja Polska -- for DSL equipment


  • Finnet Com OY -- for DSL equipment


  • Uni2 -- for DSL equipment in Spain


  • e-Plus in Germany -- to deploy 3G UMTS high-speed data cards developed by Lucent and Novatel Wireless


  • O2 Germany -- to supply 3G UMTS PC Cards developed by Lucent and Novatel to support mobile high-speed data services
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