EVNTelecom and Lucent Technologies Sign Contract for Further CDMA450 Network Expansion in Vietnam.

Phase III of Project Includes CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Network Deployment and Increasing Capacity and Coverage of Lucent-supplied Network in Northern Provinces

MURRAY HILL, N.J. -- Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU) today announced that EVNTelecom (formerly known as Vietnam Power Telecom) has selected Lucent for its phase III CDMA450 network expansion project. The two companies have already deployed an advanced wireless network to provide voice and mobile data services based on CDMA450 technology - Lucent's CDMA2000[R] solution for the 450 MHz spectrum band - in the northern provinces of Vietnam.

Under the new agreement, Lucent will further increase the capacity and coverage of EVNTelecom's network in the northern provinces and also deploy a CDMA2000 1xEV-DO network, which will enable EVNTelecom to offer new mobile high-speed data services such as Internet access, e-mail and high-quality video clips of news, sports and entertainment events at speeds of up to 2.4 Megabits per second.

"We're really excited to work with EVNTelecom in this next phase of our expansion project, as we bring new and compelling mobile high-speed data services to this market," said Bart Vogel, president, Lucent Technologies Asia Pacific. "Business users and consumers alike will be impressed with the speed and reliability of CDMA2000 1xEV-DO technology."

Lucent will upgrade existing Lucent-supplied base stations in the northern provinces, provide new CDMA450 Modular Cell 4.0 Compact base stations, and deploy its Unified Subscriber Data Server (USDS), an advanced customer information data server that enables the creation and maintenance of a single profile for each subscriber and all of the services they use, in contrast to the traditional method of maintaining individual subscriber databases for each service. Lucent Worldwide Services (LWS), a leading network integrator, will provide engineering, installation, testing, optimization, program management and training support for the project.

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