Alcatel Well Positioned at the Opening of the French Local Loop Market.Business Editors, High-Tech Writers PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 12, 2000 Following yesterday's announcement by the ART, the French telecommunications regulatory body, of the awarding of the wireless local loop licenses for mainland France and its overseas territories, Alcatel (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :ALA) is well positioned as the opening of this very important market creates new opportunities for high speed Internet. Gerard Dega, who is in charge of Alcatel's activities in France, said, "The ART decision truly opens the wireless local loop market in France and represents an important milestone for the development of high speed Internet as well as services to business customers. For months we have worked closely with most of the candidate operators to help them prepare network solutions tailored to their individual constraints and objectives. Our 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 (Local Multipoint Distribution System (wireless) Local Multipoint Distribution System - (LMDS) A broadband wireless technology. ) wireless broadband High-speed wireless transmission of data. What is "high" speed is always a changing number. Wireless systems are typically slower than land-based, wireline networks. In the past, wireless broadband started at 250 Kbps, whereas land-based broadband was generally considered to start at T1 access solution offers the most complete solution currently available in the market. Alcatel is able to propose end-to-end solutions (jargon) end-to-end solution - (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved. Compare: turn-key solution. , which are adaptable a·dapt·a·ble adj. Capable of adapting or of being adapted. a·dapt  a·bil to any environment. Following the example of the German operator Callino, who recently awarded us a 200 million Euro contract, a growing number of carriers turn to us in the French, European and global market place." With more than 2500 sites installed for more than 100 companies around the world, Alcatel is the world leader in the wireless local loop. LMDS is a high speed wireless point/multipoint access technology. It offers bandwith for Internet applications at a speed of 8 Mbit/s and voice connections at a speed of 2 Mbit/s. The subscriber only needs a small dish antenna and a unit to connect to the network. Alcatel's LMDS solution enables service providers to rapidly connect their subscribers at a minimal cost. It offers high speed Internet access See how to access the Internet. and multimedia services,as well as data and voice transmission. It also offers network management functionality and services while being extremely high performing in terms of flexibility and spectrum efficiency. For more information, please visit http://www.alcatel.com. |
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