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Article: TDM selects Alcatel-Lucent to extend nationwide optical backbone and bridge digital divide in Mozambique.(CONTRACTS)
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- Fiber Optics Weekly Update
- Article date:
- September 11, 2009
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Alcatel-Lucent announced that it has further strengthened its working relationship with Telecomunicacoes de Mocambique (TDM), the Mozambican state-owned telecommunications company, by signing a EUR21 million contract to deploy the third phase of Mozambique's national transmission network.
Alcatel-Lucent recently finished the two first phases, laying 2,970km of optical fiber across the country. Once the third stage is complete, Mozambique will be equipped with one of Africa's most modern and widespread fiber-optic backbones that will interface with neighboring landlocked countries and support Mozambican economic growth as well as social development.
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