Norway's Agder Broadband Powers High-Speed Services with LG-Nortel

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, Jun 29 (MARKET WIRE) --
Agder Broadband, a leading broadband service provider in Norway, has
deployed an LG-Nortel Ethernet Fiber Access solution, in conjunction with
channel partner INS, to provide high-speed broadband services to homes in
the southern region of Norway. LG-Nortel is a joint venture of LG
Electronics and Nortel(i) (OTCBB: NRTLQ).

The solution will enable Agder Broadband to extend its service reach from
cities and dense populated areas to smaller outlying communities in areas
such as Indre Agder. The fiber based infrastructure can deliver ultra
broadband speeds of up to one hundred megabits per second (100 Mbps) and
will position Agder to introduce triple play services in these smaller
communities. Agder's new broadband service offerings are expected to
become commercially available in July 2009.

The solution addresses Agder's challenge of clearing first mile
bottlenecks to enable the provision of high speed services to homes
across Norway. Agder Broadband already had fiber infrastructure installed
which reached distant villages across Norway. However, extending
high-speed broadband services to households in these villages was not
economically feasible because it meant installing new long distance fiber
or building expensive and power-consuming central offices to provide
dedicated fiber for each connected household.

"While we wanted to deliver high-speed broadband to a greater sector of
the Norwegian population, we still needed to make a commercial return,"
said Toralf Nyheim, managing director, Agder Broadband AS. "Even with an
existing fiber network in place we faced the classic expensive
'first-mile' problem until INS proposed an ethernet fiber access solution
based on next generation WDM-PON technology."

Developed by LG-Nortel, the Ethernet Fiber Access solution helps service
providers prevent bandwidth bottlenecks in the critical "first-mile" of
their networks. This enables faster and more reliable delivery of data
between high-speed core networks and individual user access points.

"Compared to the alternatives, WDM-PON technology represents real value
for customers like Agder Broadband," said Peter MacKinnon, chairman,
LG-Nortel. "WDM-PON is clearly emerging as the technology of choice for
service operators' access networks, driven by an ever increasing demand
for bandwidth and cost effective next generation, high availability,
access infrastructure."

According to Michael Howard of Infonetics Research, "More and more
service providers around the globe are looking to get greater utility
from their deep-fiber access networks. WDM-PON delivers up to 10 to 20
times the capacity with a dedicated wavelength to each destination, be it
to the home, building or DSLAM. Consumers want a super-fast broadband
network that can download music in seconds and movies in minutes, and
carriers want backhaul facilities to carry residential and business
traffic. Point-to-point Ethernet WDM-PON offers a simple way to help meet
the ever growing global demand for bandwidth."

The LG-Nortel Ethernet Fiber Access solution offers a simple engineering
and deployment model that accelerates the deployment of fiber-to-the-home
and fiber-to-the-building. The solution combines the best attributes of
an Ethernet Point-to-Point system (bi-directional high bandwidth
performance for business and residential customers), with the fiber
efficiency and OPEX simplicity of a passive optical system. Additionally,
it delivers a secure service, greater reach, simpler scalability and
engineering while providing a future-proof foundational infrastructure
for services.

About LG-Nortel

LG-Nortel is a joint venture of LG Electronics and Nortel. Established in
2005, LG-Nortel provides leading edge telecommunications equipment and
network solutions, spanning wired and wireless technologies, to service
provider and enterprise customers in Korea and around the world.
LG-Nortel is also actively developing next generation solutions for
global markets, with over 750 skilled R&D engineers currently focused on
wireless broadband technology evolution and the development of powerful
new product lines. For more information on LG-Nortel, visit
www.lg-nortel.com.

About Nortel

Nortel delivers communications capabilities that make the promise of
Business Made Simple a reality for our customers. Our next-generation
technologies, for both service provider and enterprise networks, support
multimedia and business-critical applications. Nortel's technologies are
designed to help eliminate today's barriers to efficiency, speed and
performance by simplifying networks and connecting people to the
information they need, when they need it. For more information, visit
Nortel on the Web at www.nortel.com. For the latest Nortel news, visit
www.nortel.com/news.

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Contacts:
Nortel
Greta Brown
+44-(0)1628-432968
gretab@nortel.com

LG-Nortel
Bohyun Kim
+82 2 2005 2128
kimvo@lg-nortel.com
www.LG-NORTEL.com

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