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Nortel and Orange turns on 3G for Cannes Film Festival
May 21, 2004

Nortel Networks and Orange have launched a pre-commercial UMTS network and are debuting Orange's new 3G service offerings at the 2004 Cannes International Film Festival.

Consumer 3G services for mobile entertainment, including video telephony, video streaming and video mail featuring local content and television broadcasts are being showcased during the film festival. Services for interactive gaming, and a suite of business applications are also being launched. These new service offerings are planned for mass consumer availability later this year.

Nortel Networks is the exclusive supplier of Orange's UMTS radio access equipment covering Cannes, and provided specialized network engineering, installation, radio optimization, and network support services to maximize 3G coverage for the area.

Nortel Networks has also been selected as the sole supplier of Orange's UMTS radio equipment to cover the entire Cóte d'Azur region and southern France, including Cannes, Nice, Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier, Toulon, Grenoble and St. Etienne.

Nortel Networks and Orange initially deployed the Cannes network in a brief, five month period (October 2003 - February 2004) to demonstrate live 3G networking capabilities to the global telecommunications industry earlier this year at the 3GSM World Congress held February 23-26.

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