Tdsoft today announced that Jazztel, Spain's first competitive local exchange carrier has started to deploy Tdsoft's TdGATE, Voice Access Gateway.
TdGATE installation, within major regions of Spain and Portugal, has begun, and will enable Jazztel to provide Voice over DSL (VoDSL) services to their business customers.
Pedro Mayor, Jazztel's General Manager of Operations said: "Jazztel has selected the TdGATE Gateway to supply VoDSL services, because of its outstanding performance and Tdsoft's professional support, experience in voice and data services, in addition to their leading technological ability. As Spain and Portugal's leading CLEC, we need to offer business users voice and Internet services at competitive prices. Tdsoft's complete VoDSL solution allows us to provide VoDSL services quickly, to meet increasing consumer demand."
Jazztel p.l.c., (Nasdaq, Nasdaq Europe: JAZZ and the Nuevo Mercado in Spain: JAZ) is a rapidly expanding data and telecommunications operator with activities in Spain and Portugal. The company provides broadband solutions for data, Internet and voice services to small and medium sized businesses in the Iberian Peninsula. Jazztel is currently the only pan Iberian data and telecommunications operator investing in local fiber access networks with broadband capacity. The company is constructing networks in over 150 metropolitan areas and business parks in Spain and Portugal.
The access networks, linked by a long-distance network, will constitute one of Europe's fastest data and Internet telecommunication networks with transmission capacity of up to 720 gigabits. The company was founded in 1997 and has over 800 employees. Jazztel also holds nationwide fixed wireless access licenses in Portugal and Spain, in the last case through Banda 26, a subsidiary of the Group. In the first quarter of 2002, Jazztel had total revenues of Euro 53 million, 14% more than in the same period in 2001.
Published by Globes [online] - www.globes.co.il - on 14 May, 2002