Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris: ALU) (NYSE: ALU) announced on 9 October that they have signed a contract with Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), the largest telecomms service provider in Taiwan, to provide Ethernet/MPLS solutions for its fibre-to-the-building (FTTB) expansion. This network expansion project will enable CHT to provide very high speed services to a larger residential and business subscriber base across Taiwan. The new contract is part of CHT's 'Optical Era Project', which involves an investment of approximately USD1.8bn to construct an island-wide fibre optical network over a five-year period. The final goal of the project is to bring fibre optic...
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