Cable / Telecom News

Nortel to provide VoIP services to Liberty Global

DENVER, CO – Liberty Global, one of the world’s largest cable operators, has signed an agreement to purchase VoIP services from Nortel through 2007. Nortel becomes an approved vendor for Liberty Global and its cable subsidiaries, including UPC Broadband in Europe, J:COM in Japan, and VTR in Chile, which have a total of 15 million customers in 18 countries. The global purchase agreement gives Liberty Global a uniform purchasing process and pricing terms. It will cover contracts recently awarded to Nortel by UPC Broadband, including the rollout of Nortel’s CS 2000-based VoIP system in the Netherlands and Austria. Liberty will...