Go has signed an agreement with Alcatel-Lucent for the roll-out of a next generation mobile core network.

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 internet protocol-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 following a merger between Alcatel and Lucent Technologies some years ago - 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.

Early in 2008, in consortium with Elettra, a Telecom Italia Group company specialising in survey, installation and maintenance of submarine cable networks, Alcatel-Lucent was selected for a turnkey project with Go plc to deploy a new submarine network between Malta and Sicily. Go's second submarine fibre-optic cable to Sicily, some months later giving Malta extra capacity and resiliency in terms of data throughput. Go is the only local telecoms provider that owns and operates two submarine cables to Europe.

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