Alcatel and Orange Romania Team Up for 3G mobile network in Romania

date: April 24, 2002

Alcatel today announced it has set up a cooperation with the Romanian subsidiary of Orange, Orange Romania, with the objective to develop 3G/UMTS mobile communications business in Romania. This is the first UMTS on the air operation implemented in the Central and Eastern Europe, and one of the few yet implemented in the world. The tests started within the inauguration ceremony of the most important Romanian IT&C fair, the CERF, in the presence of the Romanian telecom Minister and other officials.

Orange Romania today began testing the first mobile multimedia applications over the end-to-end UMTS mobile infrastructure network installed in Bucharest by Alcatel. This pre-commercial network infrastructure not only carries voice communications in circuit mode but also allows the transfer of data and high-speed video images in packet mode.

These trials have confirmed the Alcatel's UMTS Evolium infrastructure's quality in the area of high-speed data & video transfers. It enables Web Browsing, access to online information, images transfer, video streaming & downloading, or even transferring live video from a distant Webcam. The network achieved high levels of quality and speed (384Kbps available for the end user) in full compliance to UMTS standards and requirements of Orange.

Alcatel has delivered and installed in Bucharest its complete Evolium solution including the UTRAN radio systems (UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network) radio systems, the core network systems, as well as the associated radio Network Controller (RNC) and multimedia equipment in less that two months. The radio systems, which include the UMTS base stations (Node B), are developed and produced by Evolium SAS, the joint venture between Alcatel and Fujitsu.

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