Lucent Supplies CDMA2000 to Shenandoah

Shenandoah Telecommunications, a PCS Affiliate of Sprint, today announced a contract with Lucent Technologies to purchase up to $20 million of 3G CDMA2000 mobile network equipment in 2004. Lucent was also named "vendor of choice" for all switching and base station requirements for its CDMA2000 mobile network through 2007. Under the deal, Lucent will provide its Flexent Modular Cell base stations to enhance network coverage and voice capacity for Shentel's networks in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania. http://www.lucent.comhttp://www.shentel.com/