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10th April - SFR and Alcatel-Lucent announced today a contract
to supply UMTS network equipment for France. Alcatel-Lucent
will deploy UMTS/HSPA equipment from September 2007 for the
SFR network in France, thus becoming the second 3G supplier
for the operator. This new UMTS contract, the first in Western
Europe since the acquisition of the 3G UMTS activities of
Nortel in January 2007, strengthens Alcatel-Lucent’s
leading position in the market.
SFR and Alcatel-Lucent will also form a strategic technologic
partnership. This new partnership will allow SFR to have a
privileged access to the Alcatel-Lucent worldwide 3G competence
center based in France and thus to keep offering its customers,
higher broadband and state of the art multimedia services.
SFR is the second mobile operator in France with more than
18 million subscribers. It was the first operator in France
to offer 3G services in 2004 and since then, 3G has become
its strategic business priority. SFR is today the leader in
France in terms of number of 3G subscribers with more than
2.7 million customers and coverage for nearly 65% of the French
population. In the framework of the contract, Alcatel-Lucent
will supply its entire UMTS product portfolio.
“This contract reinforces the leading worldwide position
of Alcatel-Lucent in mobile broadband, enabled by the acquisition
of the 3G/UMTS activities from Nortel. SFR proves its confidence
in our technological know-how, in our innovation capability
and in our teams. Beyond the contract, it is all about a strategic
technologic partnership between two main players in France’s
telecoms industry,” said Olivier Picard, President of
the Alcatel-Lucent Europe and South activities.
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