Alcatel wants to deliver more than 4 mlns of lines ADSL into 2000
PARIS, May 4 (Reuters) - Alcatel (Paris: 13000.PA - topicality) announced Thursday that it envisaged to deliver this year more than four
million lines ADSL (Asymmetric DIGITAL Subscriber Line), technology which makes it possible to increase the traditional telephone line
speed for the access to the Internet network.
" We want to be careful when one speaks about four million lines ADSL. I insisted on the fact that it was probably largely above four million ",
said the chairman of the group, Serge Tchuruk, at the time of a conference call with financial analysts and journalists.
It specified that a million lines had been delivered during the first four months of the current year.
In 1999, the group, which asserts a world share of market of 50%, had delivered 1,5 million lines and had announced, February 3, an objective
of 2,5 million for 2000.
Serge Tchuruk recognized that Alcatel had had to face difficulties of supply components. " It is true of saying that we were constrained during
some time by problems of supply of components ", has he says. / WEM
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