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Paris, November 18, 2009 - Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext and NYSE: ALU)
today announced that it has been selected by China Mobile to deploy a TD-LTE*
trial network at the occasion of the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai (May 1 to Oct
31, 2010). The deployment will be the first in the world and follows
Alcatel-Lucent’s first TD-LTE call on a third party terminal achieved earlier
this year. The agreement was signed through Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell,
Alcatel-Lucent’s Chinese flagship company.
Alcatel-Lucent‘s industry-leading TD-LTE platform will provide indoor
coverage for 2 pavilions of World Expo 2010, namely the Theme pavilion and the
Africa pavilion. Visitors will be able to enjoy advanced mobile services
including ultra high speed internet access and HDTV at the exposition. Expected
to have 200 participants and 70 million visitors, World Expo 2010 will open on
May 1st next year.
With the explosion of mobile data traffic that is underway today, service
providers need to increase their wireless network capacity and to transform
toward end-to-end IP networks in order to support a wide array of new revenue
generating services while also driving down the operational cost of supporting
the growing volume mobile broadband services. These needs are addressed by
Alcatel-Lucent's High Leverage Network™ architecture, which is intended to
address the business, technical and operational challenges faced by service
providers, enterprises and developers as they create, manage and market new
applications. The High Leverage Network supports Alcatel-Lucent’s application
enablement vision, which is focused on combining the trusted capabilities of
service providers and enterprises with the speed and innovation of the Web
to provide both consumers and business users with richer, more
trusted and valuable experiences.
“China Mobile’s selection of our TD-LTE solution for this historical event
further confirms that Alcatel-Lucent is playing a leading role in the evolution
of 3G to 4G and that we are ready to help worldwide operators to take advantage
of this technology,” said Olivia Qiu, President of Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell
and head of Alcatel-Lucent in East Asia.
LTE is the next evolution in mobile network standards defined by 3GPP (Third
Generation Partnership Project) and supports operations in both the paired
spectrum and unpaired spectrum. Alcatel-Lucent is a pioneer in the LTE market.
It is able to provide common platform for both TDD and FDD spectrum, which
creates a truly global ecosystem, and enables all operators to take advantage
of a common system and unrivalled economies of scale as they look to provide 4G
wireless broadband services to their subscribers.
In February 2009, Alcatel-Lucent announced that it has completed the first
data calls – involving terminals from third-party suppliers – using TD-LTE
technology, demonstrating Alcatel-Lucent’s commitment to supporting a smooth
evolution path to 4G for all service providers.
* TD-LTE: Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology for Time Division Duplex
(TDD) spectrum
For more information about Alcatel-Lucent’s LTE solution, please
visit: http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/lte
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