LU 100 Mil Wireless Contract TDMA
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Tuesday October 5, 7:00 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
SOURCE: Lucent Technologies
Divine Tower International Corporation Selects
Lucent Technologies to Provide Approximately
$100 Million in Wireless Network Equipment
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Divine Tower International Corporation (DTIC), a
leader in communications construction and provisioning, today announced it has selected Lucent
Technologies (NYSE: LU - news) to provide approximately $100 million worth of wireless
infrastructure equipment in the first year of a three-year contract. DTIC will use the Lucent
equipment to offer full turnkey wireless networks to service providers.
Under the terms of the agreement, Lucent, as DTIC's vendor of choice, will supply CDMA,
TDMA, GSM and/or AMPS network wireless elements, including base stations, switches and
software needed for DTIC to build and operate wireless networks. This equipment includes the
Lucent 5ESS® Switch, the industry's most reliable switching system according to independent
data. Through its unique approach, Columbus, Ohio-based DTIC will utilize the Lucent
equipment in a turnkey infrastructure leasing program aimed at wireless network end-service
providers in developed and emerging markets.
''Lucent Technologies has a premier reputation among wireless carriers for providing the best
equipment to make telecommunications work,'' said Norm Bangle, Jr., president, Divine Tower
International Corporation. ''This unique approach with Lucent now affords DTIC's customers an
enhancement to the overall value of the turnkey system provisioning we furnish which now
includes the recognized benefit of custom- configured Lucent equipment. In addition, DTIC
offers project financing to wireless end-service providers to quickly move network projects from
the concept stage to the construction stage.''
''Divine Tower International's innovative leasing program gives end-service providers the best of
both worlds,'' said Chuck Many, Lucent Technologies vice president-Emerging Wireless
Carriers. ''They get state-of-the art equipment from Lucent configured exactly the way they
want it, without having to purchase the equipment. And DTIC's leasing program lets them lease
a custom- designed and custom-built network at a fraction of the cost of building their own. This
three-year agreement with Lucent will strengthen DTIC's position as a provider of leased custom
wireless networks.''
Divine Tower International Corporation is a diverse company and the nation's largest privately
held infrastructure provider, whose primary focus is infrastructure provisioning. DTIC provides
system design, site acquisition, program management, construction management, equipment
installation, construction and maintenance of communications facilities. Established in 1966,
DTIC has over 30 years of experience in the construction and communications industry, DTIC
offers a broad scope of services that are tailored to meet the specific needs of each client. DTIC
currently provides infrastructure provisioning and related services to a number of leading
wireless carriers both domestically and internationally. Further information about Divine Tower
International Corporation is available on the worldwide Web at www.divinetower.com.
Lucent Technologies is a leading provider of wireless infrastructure equipment utilizing all of the
major interfaces available in the market today -- AMPS, TDMA, CDMA and GSM. Lucent
Technologies supplies mobile and fixed wireless communications systems that offer global
service providers standards- based solutions for serving the information needs of consumers and
enterprises. The company designs, builds and delivers a wide range of public and private
networks, communications systems and software, data networking systems, business telephone
systems and microelectronics components. Bell Labs is the research and development arm of the
company. Further information about Lucent Technologies is available on the worldwide Web at
www.lucent.com. |
