PARIS, Sept. 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcatel-Lucent
(Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) has been selected by NTELOS Holdings
Corp. (NASDAQ: NTLS) to provide 4G LTE network services for the
nTelos Wireless network build-out in West
Virginia and parts of western Virginia. The network will serve an additional
2.1 million people.
This is the third network expansion provided by Alcatel-Lucent
since nTelos Wireless launched its LTE network in 2013.
Alcatel-Lucent has worked with the wireless provider since
2000.
Key Facts:
- nTelos Wireless is deploying Alcatel-Lucent's 4G LTE solution,
including multi-technology Radio Access Network, Mobile Backhaul,
and elements within its Evolved Packet Core (EPC) as part of its
network expansion into West
Virginia and parts of western Virginia
serving an additional 2.1 million people.
- nTelos will deploy Alcatel-Lucent base stations supporting
Sprint's 1900MHz, 800MHz and 2.5G spectrum.
- Alcatel-Lucent also will expand nTelos' existing backhaul with
its 7705 Service Aggregation Router and the EPC with the 9471
Wireless Mobility Manager.
- Alcatel-Lucent is providing nTelos Wireless with a set of
professional services including engineering, installation,
integration, and project management.
Quotes:
Bobby McAvoy, Senior Vice
President, Wireless Engineering and Operations for nTelos said:
"Alcatel-Lucent and nTelos have enjoyed a long and productive
relationship. This agreement is significant because it will
enable us to build the most robust network in our footprint and to
deliver an improved user experience to our retail and wholesale
customers."
Charles Marsh, Vice President
of North America Sales,
Alcatel-Lucent said: "nTelos Wireless has established an
enviable position as an industry leader in an extremely competitive
market by delivering the level of service customers want at a
reasonable price. Our solutions and considerable global deployment
experience, backed by Bell Labs
technology and innovations, will help nTelos deliver on its
commitment to network build out, particularly as it supports the
Sprint wholesale relationship."
About NTELOS
NTELOS Holdings Corp. (NTLS),
operating through its subsidiaries as "nTelos Wireless," is
headquartered in Waynesboro, VA,
and provides high-speed, dependable nationwide voice and data
coverage for approximately 458,100 retail subscribers based in
Virginia, West Virginia and portions of Maryland, North
Carolina, Pennsylvania,
Ohio and Kentucky. The Company's licensed territories
have a total population of approximately 8.0 million residents, of
which its wireless network covers approximately 6.0 million
residents. The Company is also the exclusive wholesale provider of
network services to Sprint Corporation in the western Virginia and West
Virginia portions of its territories for all Sprint CDMA and
LTE wireless customers.
About Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE:
ALU)
We are at the forefront of global
communications, providing products and innovations in IP and cloud
networking, as well as ultra-broadband fixed and wireless access to
service providers and their customers, and to enterprises and
institutions throughout the world. Underpinning us in driving the
industrial transformation from voice telephony to high-speed
digital delivery of data, video and information is Bell Labs, an integral part of the Group and one
of the world's foremost technology research institutes, responsible
for countless breakthroughs that have shaped the networking and
communications industry. Our innovations have resulted in our Group
being recognized by Thomson Reuters as a Top 100 Global Innovator,
as well as being named by MIT Technology Review as amongst 2012's
Top 50 "World's Most Innovative Companies". We have also been
recognized for innovation in sustainability, being named Industry
Group Leader in the Technology Hardware & Equipment sector in
the 2013 Dow Jones Sustainability Indices review, for making global
communications more sustainable, affordable and accessible, all in
pursuit of the Group's mission to realize the potential of a
connected world.
With revenues of Euro 14.4
billion in 2013, Alcatel-Lucent is listed on the
Paris and New York stock exchanges (Euronext and NYSE:
ALU). The company is incorporated in France and headquartered in Paris.
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