Group Telecom Inc. (Toronto) selected Lucent Technologies (Murray Hill, NJ) to provide integral

Group Telecom Inc. (Toronto) selected Lucent Technologies (Murray Hill, NJ) to provide integral switching equipment, technology, and support for the build-out of a metropolitan fiber-optic network in Canada. The contract is worth $55 million and covers the first phase of the build-out in Vancouver, Toronto, and Calgary. The next phase of the project includes other major centers across Canada. Group Telecom is expanding into a Canadian local services market that is estimated to be worth $13.7 billion by the year 2002.