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Nortel and Vodafone Spain demonstrate evolution of 3G

February 12, 2006

Nortel and Vodafone Spain will be demonstrating mobile calls at 3.6 Megabits per second at the 3GSM World Congress 2006 in Barcelona, Spain, 13 to 16 February. At these rates customers have access to higher speed broadband than the majority of European fixed broadband connections operating at 2 Megabits per second, providing truly mobile broadband connectivity while 1.8 megabits per second will initially be rolled out commercially.

Both Vodafone Spain and Nortel will use the HSDPA network to support demonstrations for customers and organisations about the mobile services that they can expect to benefit from when the solution is rolled out.

In addition, further demonstrations of the potential of UMTS services in spare spectrum at 900MHz will be given at 3GSM to illustrate its potential use in delivering better mobile broadband coverage. Vodafone and Nortel support the authorization of 900MHz for UMTS services in various European regions, including Spain, to increase the availability of mobile broadband services. UMTS in the 900 MHz band is a cost effective way of delivering nationwide high-speed mobile coverage by providing up to 60 percent site reduction savings in rural areas as well as improved Quality of Service through enhanced in-building penetration by 25 percent in urban areas.

Corporate demonstrations of HSDPA and UMTS will use 3G datacards in laptops to show how employees can use mobile broadband to stay connected to corporate networks and benefit from secure connectivity that provides instant messaging, large file data transfer as well as new applications for the mobile workforce. Demonstrations of the consumer applications for HSDPA will involve new handsets with high quality live TV, High Definition video on demand, MP3 streaming and presence awareness amongst groups of friends.

"As we lead the transition of HSDPA from the laboratory into live, commercial, deployments, we are working hard with operators such as Vodafone to highlight the personal and work benefits increased broadband mobile coverage can bring," said Alain Biston, Vice-President GSM/UMTS Portfolio at Nortel. "At 3GSM World Congress, we are aiming to show how to bring true Enterprise mobility and connectivity to Europe as well as how to deliver the entertainment services of the future."

Details of the Nortel and Vodafone HSDPA solutions will be presented during the Technology Symposium session "Optimizing the 3G Experience". Alain Biston, GSM and UMTS vice-president, Nortel will present this on February 16 at 11:00 am during the Technology Symposium in the 3GSM World Congress conference sessions.