ZTE Wins Contract for 3rd Phase of ANTEL GPON Expansion

ZTE Corporation

today announced it has won a contract for the third phase of a Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) capacity expansion contract with Uruguay's Administración Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (ANTEL). ANTEL has a 97 percent share Uruguay's the fixed network voice and broadband market and is the largest fixed network operator in the country. It also provides mobile communications services. In 2010, ANTEL began using the state-of-the-art GPON technology to deploy a national Fiber To The Home (FTTH) network. ZTE has provided GPON products and services to ANTEL for three consecutive