www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Alcatel-Lucent’s LTE equipment has been selected by French fixed and mobile operator Bouygues Telecom for the trial of its mobile broadband services. The field trial programme due to start at various sites in western France in 2010 will witness Alcatel-Lucent as the sole supplier and network integrator.

Through the trials, the operator can evaluate opportunities to introduce new multimedia applications and services. The end-to-end LTE solution supplied by Alcatel-Lucent will comprise base stations (eNodeBs), Evolved Packet Core (EPC) and its associated management system.

As the nineteenth customer to undergo trials by Alcatel-Lucent, Bouygues Telecom will be provided with professional services like project management and planning, installation, commissioning, integrat
ion and test plan execution services.