Vietnam Power Telecom Selects Lucent Technologies to Deploy Advanced Wireless Network
Posted on: Tuesday, 15 June 2004, 06:00 CDT
Lucent Technologies Tuesday announced that Vietnam Power Telecom (VP Telecom) has selected Lucent to deploy an advanced wireless network to provide voice and high-speed data services in the northern provinces of Vietnam. Thisis the first customer contract in Vietnam for Lucent.
Under the agreement, Lucent will supply VP Telecom with equipment and services to deploy a commercial wireless network based on Lucent's CDMA2000 1X solution for the 450 MHz spectrum band, known as CDMA450. The network willprovide access to high-quality voice and high-speed data services at speeds of up to 153 kilobits per second to both consumers and business customers.
"We look forward to helping VP Telecom introduce world-class wireless voice and data services to hundreds of thousands of new subscribers in both rural and urban areas of Vietnam," said Cindy Christy, president of LucentTechnologies' Mobility Solutions Group.
Lucent, the first to deliver CDMA450 solutions globally, has deployed commercial networks in 450 MHz spectrum for Delta Telecom and Moscow Cellular Communications -- both part of the SkyLink initiative in Russia -- Zapp Mobile in Romania and Uzbek Telecom in Uzbekistan, and is conducting numerous CDMA450 trials with customers around the world.
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