French Polynesia's Office des Postes & Telecommunications Awards Alcatel-Lucent New Submarine Cable Network Linking Tahiti to Hawaii.

PR Newswire Europe, January, 2008

PARIS, January 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- Honotua Submarine Network to Bridge the Digital Divide in the Polynesian Archipelago

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) announces the signing of a turnkey contract with French Polynesian operator Office des Postes & Telecommunications (OPT). According to this agreement, Alcatel-Lucent will roll out a new, high-speed submarine cable network linking Tahiti in French Polynesia to Hawaii in the U.S, as well as providing domestic connectivity.

This new submarine network, with a value of 72.2 M Euros, has been called 'Honotua' (a Tahitian name meaning the link towards the open sea) and it will greatly increase French Polynesia's local and international connectivity.

Accordingly, OPT will...

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