22 October, 2004: Ericsson has been selected by Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL), one of the leading Indian incumbent operators to supply broadband access networks to Delhi and Mumbai, the country's two largest metropolitan areas. MTNL plans to launch the services by the end of this year, offering broadcast TV, video on demand and high-speed Internet. The contract is on a turnkey basis for the supply and rollout of Ericsson's solutions Ethernet DSL Access and Ethernet aggregation technology into the MTNL network. It includes a complete end-to-end broadband access solution including upgrading of existing telephony lines with Ethernet DSL technology, customer premises equipment, bandwidth provisioning system and aggregation network. The ADSL2+ technology selected by MTNL for the mass rollout, will allow MTNL to offer up to 24Mbits/s bandwidth to the customers over existing copper lines.

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