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To: elmatador who wrote (61)	1/17/2001 7:30:24 AM
From: zbyslaw owczarczyk	Respond to of 135

German operator deplous Alcatel DSL: Message 15194295 ZO I guess your dream about dead DSL is just your dream. All three, Verizon, SBC abd Bell South deploys DSL at record speed, ahead of shedule. ZO

To: elmatador who wrote (61)	1/20/2001 11:51:31 AM
From: zbyslaw owczarczyk	Respond to of 135

Bell Canada Connects Over 100,000 DSL lines six months using Alcatel DSL Solution newbridge.com Alcatel Provides Platform for Record DSL Deployment in Canada Alcatel reinforced our position as the world leader in Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) solutions with addition of over 100,000 ADSL (Asymmetric DSL) lines to Canadian business and residential customers in just the last six months. During this same period, Bell Canada, the leading Internet provider in Canada, equipped 280 of its switching centers with the outstanding Alcatel DSL platform. The Alcatel ADSL solution facilitates the rapid rate of this deployment and vast availability of broadband access to Bell Canada's business and residential customers. Bell Canada selected Alcatel as its DSL provider in May of 2000 and will continue to implement Alcatel's standards-based DSL network platform. "We are pleased to have been selected to supply Bell Canada's DSL solutions. We at Alcatel look forward to expanding our partnership with Bell Canada as we strongly support their commitment to supply broadband access to the vast majority of their customers by the end of 2002." Hubert de Pesquidoux, president and CEO of Alcatel Canada Why Alcatel is the World's Leading Supplier of DSL Solutions Alcatel is the world's leading supplier of DSL solutions, helping service providers everywhere deploy an expanded range of revenue producing offerings and applications such as high speed Internet access, voice over DSL, and video services. Alcatel's DSL solutions are available on a variety of service platforms, including the Alcatel 7300 and 7350 ASAM; the Litespan NGDLC; and environmentally hardened DSLAM packages optimized for remote terminal deployment, the Alcatel Remote Access Multiplexer (RAM) and mini-RAM. This complete set of deployment options gives service providers the flexibility to bring DSL service to all potential subscribers in their service areas, regardless of their network topology. A unified element management solution, Access Management System (AMS), manages voice and data services for the Litespan and the ASAM product family. The Alcatel 5620 Network Manager, an integrated scalable network management solution, seamlessly manages these products at the network and service layers. Alcatel's DSL technology is also offered in an advanced range of customer premises equipment, the Alcatel Speed Touch(TM) family of DSL modems, routers, and integrated access devices supporting multi-line voice and data service over a single telephone access line. For more information on Alcatel's DSL solutions, visit alcateldsl.com

To: elmatador who wrote (61)	1/22/2001 7:25:14 AM
From: zbyslaw owczarczyk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 135

Atlantic said it has installed DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) Internet technology in 331 of Deutsche Telekom's local exchanges, putting it well ahead of schedule. It has also begun to roll-out DSL in the Netherlands, with 17 exchanges equipped. Monday January 22, 11:33 AM Atlantic cuts jobs to speed move to profit (Adds total employees in paragraph 1, location of job cuts in 3, analyst comment in 6, 11-12, funds in 7) By Richard Baum, UK telecoms correspondent LONDON, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Britain's Atlantic Telecom Group Plc on Monday said it was cutting its 1,200-strong workforce by almost a third as it joins other smaller European telecoms firms seeking to move into profit faster. The 350 job cuts will help it save 30 million pounds ($43.88 million) next year and ensure it starts seeing positive cash flow earlier than analysts' predictions of 2004, Executive Chairman Graham Duncan said. The cuts affect mainly its residential sales and support staff in London and Manchester. The company was already scaling back its residential operations to concentrate on business customers in the UK and Germany, and has stepped up the plan amid investor pressure on unprofitable operators to rethink their business plans. "It's all to do with focus in this environment," Duncan told Reuters. "We believe the route to profits needs to be shortened." Annual savings of 30 million pounds would move Atlantic into positive earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) in 2003, according to Investec Henderson Crosthwaite Securities. Duncan declined to give an estimate. FUNDS IN PLACE He said the company has sufficient resources to finance its expansion until it turns EBITDA positive, with 190 million pounds of available funds and 100 million pounds of unused vendor financing. Shares in Atlantic were up 4.5 percent at 115 pence in late morning trade, compared with a six percent gain just before the announcement. The stock is worth less than a tenth of its 2000 peak, even after rising 15 percent since the start of this year. Atlantic follows smaller European operators such as Viatel Inc and Redstone Telecom Plc that are cutting jobs or scaling back their expansion plans to move into profit sooner. It is almost impossible for such companies to raise money in the debt and equity markets because of the change in sentiment that triggered the slump in technology and telecoms shares. "As much as there might be optimism over the price of raising fresh funds with U.S. interest rates falling, in reality a lot of operators have cut back their business plans," said Investec analyst Christian Maher. "They are taking a bit of a time out to bed down their existing operations and make sure they don't need to raise more funds." Atlantic, in which Marconi Plc has a 18.7 percent stake, also announced fourth-quarter results showing a 14 percent rise in directly connected business lines in the UK. It said it has reached an agreement to use the national fibre-optic network of Carrier1 in Germany, where Atlantic is competing with Deutsche Telekom AG to provide fast Internet services. Atlantic said it has installed DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) Internet technology in 331 of Deutsche Telekom's local exchanges, putting it well ahead of schedule. It has also begun to roll-out DSL in the Netherlands, with 17 exchanges equipped. Duncan said Atlantic was targeting around 600 exchanges in the UK, where the start of local exchange competition has been held by disputes with British Telecommunications Plc , using a mix of DSL and wireless Internet technology.

To: elmatador who wrote (61)	1/28/2001 5:08:49 PM
From: zbyslaw owczarczyk	Respond to of 135

xDSL and FTTN telecomclick.com "I have always argued that [asymmetrical] DSL would stimulate and pull fiber deployment closer to the home, and I still believe that and think it is happening," says David Kettler, vice president of science and technology for BellSouth. "Our ADSL rollout is ramping up rapidly and will continue to whet customers' appetites for more bandwidth."