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Lucent Technologies Continues to Expand its Presence in Asia Pacific and China

Announces contracts in key growth areas with KT, Tata Teleservice, China Telecom and Vietnam Power Telecom

Wednesday, 16 June 2004


Lucent Technologies announced contracts to help telecommunications service providers deliver next-generation services and solutions to Asian businesses and homes.

Lucent is demonstrating the full scope of its advanced communications technology at CommunicAsia, the region's largest communications trade event. Among the contracts announced the opening day of the show are contracts with Korea's KT, India's Tata, China Telecom (as part of a frame relay agreement announced in January, 2004) and with Vietnam Power Telecom as Lucent continues to deliver a host of next-generation network solutions based on innovative Bell Labs technology.

"With Asia's economies showing a return to growth amidst the broader global recovery, the importance of telecommunications infrastructure to economic development is increasingly being recognized. Communications service providers in this region are seeking ways to provide innovative, reliable and secure new services, especially to businesses, while controlling costs," said Martin Geh, president, Lucent Technologies Asia Pacific.

"The agreements that Lucent is announcing at CommunicAsia illustrate how we are helping our customers to deliver revenue-generating value-added services and manage their networks more efficiently. At the show we will demonstrate powerful new Bell Labs-developed technologies including a portfolio of software, products and applications that focus on accelerating value over VoIP."

Lucent's announcements at CommunicAsia include:

VoIP Solutions
Lucent's Accelerate™ Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Solutions, next-generation solutions for delivering converged multimedia communications spanning wireline, wireless and enterprise networks is being shown at CommunicAsia. It supports differentiated applications and the convergence of wireline and wireless, while offering greater revenue-generating potential, better network return-on-investment and more efficient management of capital and operating expenses enabling better profit margins.

In one of the first Accelerate deployments in Asia, South Korea's largest communications service provider KT will install Anymedia® Line Access Gateway (LAG) systems to provide about 350,000 lines and support cost-effective traditional voice services as well as the rapid introduction of new broadband services. Using a single integrated network management system for both voice and data traffic, the implementation will help KT streamline operations, cut costs and simplify network migration. (Please see the press release "Lucent Technologies to Supply Accelerate™ Solutions for KT's Next-Generation Networks Build-Out.")

Spread Spectrum Solutions
A leader in the development of commercial 3G spread-spectrum solutions and the first to deliver CDMA450 solutions globally, Lucent has deployed CDMA2000 networks with more than 25 mobile operators in Asia, Australasia, Europe and the Americas. In a new contract with India's Tata Teleservices, Lucent will now provide equipment, software and services to increase the coverage and capacity of the operator's CDMA network in Andhra Pradesh. Deploying Lucent Flexent™ base stations that support 3G CDMA2000 1X service, Tata Teleservices will be able to increase voice capacity and deliver a variety of value-added mobile high-speed data services such as video streaming and high-speed Internet access to more customers. (Please see the press release "Tata Teleservices Awards Lucent Technologies Contract Worth Nearly $30 Million for Further CDMA Network Expansion.")

In Vietnam, hundreds of thousands of new subscribers will gain access to world-class wireless voice and data services when Vietnam Power Telecom deploys an advanced wireless network based on an integrated, end-to-end Lucent CDMA450 solution. (Please see the press release "Vietnam Power Telecom Selects Lucent Technologies to Deploy a Wireless Voice And Data Network in Northern Vietnam")

High-Capacity Switches
Lucent's 5ESS® switch-based end-to-end Personal Handyphone System (PHS) has been widely deployed throughout China, serving more than 6 million subscribers in 10 provinces. Now, through contracts worth more than US$80 million (as part of a US$350 million agreement announced in January 2004), five provincial subsidiaries of China Telecom will optimize and expand their Lucent-supplied PHS networks by seamlessly upgrading to 5E-XC™ switch, Lucent's next-generation high-capacity switch. This switch enables service providers to evolve to IP networks and offer a full array of innovative services including short message service, high-speed wireless Internet access and other data services. (Please see the press release "Lucent Technologies Awarded Over $80 Million Personal Handyphone System Contracts by China Telecom.")


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