HILVERSUM, The Netherlands -- Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU - News) today announced that it has successfully completed a Voice over DSL (VoDSL) project for KPN in the Netherlands. Under the terms of the contract, Lucent provided infrastructure and services to enable KPN to expand its VoDSL portfolio to offer a new converged voice and data solution to its small and medium sized enterprise customers. As part of the two-year contract, Lucent will be the exclusive partner for KPN's VoDSL implementation.

"With our VoDSL project roll-out complete, we are delighted that the knowledge and expertise of Lucent has enabled us to expand our portfolio to offer competitive VoDSL services to our customers," said Robbert Bakker, KPN manager of VoDSL. "Lucent's business case planning and technical expertise helped us plan and roll-out our first converged voice and data solutions, incorporating high quality business voice and broadband data while ensuring it was done cost effectively and with limited capital and operational expenditure."

"We are delighted to have completed this phase of KPN's VoDSL and we are looking forward to expanding the roll-out across the Netherlands and into new and exciting services," said Huub de Klerk, Customer Group Leader North Europe for Lucent Technologies. "This project demonstrates Lucent's clear strengths in the areas of voice and data networks as well as our expertise in network management, multi-vendor systems integration and business case modelling."

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