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Alcatel-Lucent (ALU), BT (BT) Announce G.Fast Technology Trial in England

October 9, 2015 8:30 AM EDT

Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) and BT (NYSE: BT) are today to commence an extensive consumer trial of the ultra-broadband access G.fast technology in Gosforth in the north-east of England.

G.fast in which BT, Alcatel-Lucent and its Bell Labs research arm have played a pioneering development role - allows service providers to provide ultra-broadband Internet speeds in locations where deploying fiber-optic connectivity is difficult. It also eliminates the need to rewire entire buildings and homes, the most costly and time-consuming part of any fiber... More