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To: jas cooper who wrote (583)	4/8/1999 12:43:00 PM
From: bertrand bidaud	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 3891

Bell Atlantic.. That is what many were waiting for... I was quite disappointed by the lack of large ADSL contract so far. This one is beautiful! Next please?

To: jas cooper who wrote (583)	4/8/1999 4:56:00 PM
From: Steve Fancy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3891

Another version.... Alcatel to supply ADSL technology to Bell Atlantic Reuters, Thursday, April 08, 1999 at 15:41 NEW YORK, April 8 (Reuters) - French telecommunications company Alcatel (NYSE:ALA) on Thursday said it struck a $800 million, five-year deal to supply transmission technology to Bell Atlantic Corp. to boost the New York-based company's Internet access services. Bell Altantic, one of the largest U.S. local telephone service providers, is making Alcatel its primary vendor for asymmetric digital subscriber line, a technology known as ADSL. ADSL digitizes the transmission of data over existing copper telephone wires at a speed that is 200 times faster than transmission over an analog modem, the predecessor to digital technology. ADSL's speeds range up to 8 megabits per second. Alcatel said it would supply Bell Atlantic with more than 5O percent of its ADSL equipment. Adding ADSL support enables Bell Atlantic to migrate from narrowband to faster and more versatile broadband services, and offer ADSL service to more of its customers, Alcatel said. Copyright 1999, Reuters News Service