Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
BT has signed contracts with the remaining four companies - Alcatel, Fujitsu, Ericsson and Cisco - announced last year as the preferred suppliers of its massive next generation network project, dubbed 21CN.
Contract signings with the other four - Ciena, Huawei, Lucent and Siemens - were announced on 23 December.
Alcatel and Cisco have been selected to supply metro nodes providing routing and signalling for 21CN's voice, data and video services. Cisco has also been selected to supply large scale routers providing high capacity connections between metro nodes. Ericsson has been selected in the i-node domain – in essence the intelligence that controls the services. Fujitsu will be provide the access technology which will link BT's existing network with the new 21CN.
Paul Reynolds, BT Wholesale CEO, said: "The UK is the first country in the world to move its core telecommunications infrastructure to a next generation all-IP network. The industry worldwide is watching what we are doing very closely."
Meryl Bushell, chief procurement officer for BT Group, said: "This concludes what has been one of the largest single procurement programmes ever undertaken in the communications industry worldwide."
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