Alcatel Secures Three Major LMDS Contracts in Spain, Uruguay and US.Business & High Tech Editors PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 21, 2000 Strengthens Alcatel's Ownership of Broadband Access See broadband and wireless broadband. Market Alcatel (Paris: CGEP CGEP Commonwealth Graduate Engineering Program (Virginia) CGEP Center for Gifted Education Policy .PA and NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : ALA) will today announce that three customers located around the world have selected its broadband wireless See wireless broadband. solution, further enhancing its leadership position in the LMDS (Local Multipoint Distribution Service) A digital wireless transmission system that works in the 28 GHz range in the U.S. and 24-40 GHz overseas. It requires line of sight between transmitter and receiving antenna, which can be from one to four miles apart market. This comes less than a month after Dell'Oro Group reaffirmed Alcatel's leadership in ADSL See DSL. ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line , the wireline solution for many operators around the world, giving the company more than 54.2 percent of this fast-access market (more than three times that of its nearest competitor). The customer wins announced today underscore The underscore character (_) is often used to make file, field and variable names more readable when blank spaces are not allowed. For example, NOVEL_1A.DOC, FIRST_NAME and Start_Routine. (character) underscore - _, ASCII 95. Alcatel's global presence. In Europe, Alcatel has won a contract with Retevision of Spain. In the Americas, Alcatel will announce that BellSouth in Uruguay and Farmer's Telephone in the US have selected its LMDS solution. "Today's announcements mark an important milestone in Alcatel's drive to capture, aggregate and switch the greatest share of the world's broadband broadband Term describing the radiation from a source that produces a broad, continuous spectrum of frequencies (contrasted with a laser, which produces a single frequency or very narrow range of frequencies). traffic," said Pearse Flynn, president of Alcatel's Carrier Networking Group. "Providing reliable, profit-generating, high-speed access to the customer is critical to a service provider's success. This is critical to Alcatel's success as well: a surge in traffic flowing from the customer to the central office means more Alcatel equipment throughout the network, as these wins indicate." "These wins confirm that Alcatel offers the most complete broadband wireless access solutions available on the market for mass deployment," said Jean-David Calvet, Alcatel's executive vice-president of Fixed Wireless. Indeed, Alcatel already has more than 100 commercial and trial broadband wireless network rollouts totaling an impressive 3,000+ base station sector deployments. With spectrum still being awarded in many countries around the world, the potential for growth in the broadband wireless market is huge. "Global service revenues for broadband wireless are projected to reach US $16 billion by 2004," said Jamie Mendelson, senior analyst, Strategis Group. "This represents a compound annual growth rate of 140 percent." About Alcatel Alcatel builds next generation networks, delivering integrated end-to-end voice and data networking solutions to established and new carriers, as well as enterprises and consumers worldwide. With 120,000 employees and sales of EURO 23 billion in 1999, Alcatel operates in more than 130 countries. For more information, visit Alcatel on the Internet: http://www.alcatel.com |
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