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AT&T announced a new contract to provide network services to The RoomPlace. The Lombard-based company operates 22 stores in Chicago, suburban Chicago and Indiana.

Under the terms of the three-year contract, AT&T will serve as The RoomPlace’s primary network and data transport services provider. AT&T will equip 27 sites in all, including hosted data and disaster recovery centers and a state-of-the-art distribution center, by using AT&T’s Multiprotocol Label Switching Private Network Transport (MPLS PNT) service and Ethernet Dedicated Internet Access on AT&T’s OPT-E-MAN® service, a switched Ethernet service.

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AT&T announced a new three-year network service contract with West Suburban Bank. Based in Lombard, West Suburban Bank is a community banking company with 34 locations throughout Illinois.

Under terms of the contract, AT&T will serve as the primary service provider for West Suburban Bank, delivering AT&T OPT-E-MAN® service, a custom switched Ethernet service to connect multiple sites. The OPT-E-MAN optical transport solution will be used by West Suburban Bank to enhance Internet access and other real-time communication among its locations and with its customers.

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Today at Ericsson’s Capital Markets Day in Stockholm, President and Chief Executive Officer, Carl-Henric Svanberg spoke about Ericsson’s position and the company’s vision going forward which will increasingly focus on broadband, multimedia services and network transformation.

Svanberg said: “We are advancing our vision now that basically anyone who wants a mobile phone will soon be able to have one. We envision an all communicating world where the majority of people everywhere will have access to information and the ability to share it instantly, whenever and wherever they want. We aim to do the same for broadband what we have already done for telephony - make it mobile, available and affordable for the majority of the world’s population.”

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Alcatel-Lucent announces the availability of a Japanese language user interface for the Alcatel-Lucent 5620 Service Aware Manager (SAM), an integrated network and service management solution for converged IP/Ethernet/MPLS multiservice networks. The 5620 SAM helps service providers address the key challenge of maintaining operational excellence while converging their network infrastructures and introducing advanced IP-based services to businesses, customers and residential subscribers.

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AT&T announced that Royal Dutch Shell (Shell) has selected AT&T to be its global provider of advanced communications services. The five year agreement, estimated to be worth $1.6 billion, calls for AT&T to provide, manage and maintain Shell’s worldwide communications infrastructure while also managing the company’s global mobility needs. It is one of the largest commercial contracts ever signed by AT&T, and it’s the largest agreement signed with a company that is headquartered in Europe. The agreement is one of three outsourcing contracts signed by Shell with key suppliers for networking and IT services.

This agreement with Shell follows a series of other large and strategic wins AT&T has secured in the past year, including deals with Starbucks, General Motors, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and IBM. All of these wins underscore AT&T’s position as the leading global telecommunications service provider within the industry. The agreements with GM and the Department of the Treasury are each worth up to $1 billion; the IBM agreement is worth up to $5 billion.

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AT&T announced an extended and expanded contract with Paltalk, a leading real-time, video-based online community. Under the new contract, AT&T will provide expanded enterprise hosting and voice services to support the company’s subscriber base and interactive capabilities. AT&T and Paltalk are continuing a strong relationship that has spanned more than seven years.

AT&T Enterprise Hosting Services will provide uninterrupted access and increased bandwidth to deliver an unmatched user experience — among interactive chat, video and audio applications — on Paltalk’s online community. Given the global presence that Paltalk has established, the company has realized an increased need to have AT&T support larger volumes of data that come with users accessing Paltalk’s feature-rich online community from around the world.

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