GO plc has just signed an agreement with global telecoms giant Alcatel-Lucent for the roll out of a Next Generation Mobile Core Network (NGN).

The company said that the investment would place it in an even stronger position in its ongoing drive to provide a flexible approach for consumers to use new services.

Alcatel-Lucent will provide GO with an NGN mobile core solution that will result in a complete upgrade of its existing network, and will pave the way to future enhancement and IMS - the multimedia subsystem that enables convergence of data, speech and network technology over an IP-based infrastructure. IMS will further evolve GO's infrastructure and enable communications in a variety of modes including voice text, pictures and video. Alcatel-Lucent's ultimate solution, tailor-made for GO will interwork with the existing 2G, 3G and HSDPA technology.

Alcatel-Lucent - formed when Alcatel merged with Lucent Technologies some years back - is a global telecommunications corporation headquartered in Paris. It provides its customers with various telecommunications solutions focussing on fixed, mobile and converged broadband networking hardware, IP technologies, software and services. The company boasts operations in more than 130 countries round the world.

"GO has always been at the forefront of innovation and technology and this project will give even more edge to our infrastructure, thus allowing us to continuously improve our portfolio of voice and data mobile services - in short to create a better end-user experience for our customers," said GO CEO, David Kay.

"GO and Alcatel-Lucent have been partnering on several projects and we consider Alcatel-Lucent a very established and reliable supplier. I am convinced that this multi-million investment will prove to be an important foundation on which we will build an even brighter future delivering powerful, new services to our customers in a scalable, cost-effective way," he added.

"This investment programme, as well as other important projects such as fibre-to-the-home deployment, confirm GO's confidence in strengthening its local operation to the benefit of all its stakeholders and the country's development," Mr Kay said.

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