Alcatel-Lucent will hold an online press conference on March 18 to introduce groundbreaking enhancements to its end-to-end LTE (News - Alert) solution.

 

Alcatel-Lucent (News - Alert) has built a reputation for offering one of the industry’s most complete LTE solutions. With several trials underway, Alcatel-Lucent is set to make the next move to firmly establish its technology leadership in wireless IP.

 

Set to take place at 8 a.m. PST / 11 a.m. EST / 4 p.m. CET, the Web conference will be hosted by Basil Alwan, head of Alcatel-Lucent’s Carrier Group portfolio strategy.

 

The audio bridge dial-in number for North America is 866-383-8009; international is 617-597-5342. The participant pass code is 27826387.

The Webcast link is: http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?p=irol-eventDetails&c=94709&eventID=2790822 with an ntID of 2790822.

Participants can use the audio bridge or the Web interface tool to ask questions at the end of the presentation.

 

All media queries following the event can be directed to sarah.miller@alcatel-lucent.com or kurt.steinert@alcatel-lucent.com, referencing the Web press conference.

 

In other Alcatel-Lucent news, the company announced in December the launch of BlackBerry in Pakistan in association with ZONG, the first international brand of China Mobile (News - Alert) and Research In Motion.

 

At Mobile World Congress (News - Alert), Alcatel-Lucent achieved record speed rates on China Mobile’s TD-LTE (time division duplex/long-term evolution) trial network, which is being installed to support the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai. During extensive tests, peak rates of more than 80Mbps downstream were realized by the team from Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell, Alcatel-Lucent’s flagship company in China.

 

Last week, the company announced that TelefA’nica is receiving the 200 millionth digital subscriber line shipped by Alcatel-Lucent – a unique and important milestone for the DSL industry, demonstrating the company’s ongoing leadership in this space.

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