Alcatel Standard Electrica has been awarded two contracts worth $34.5m by the Chinese PTT Authority of Yunnan and PTT Authority of Zhejiang: the contracts cover the supply of 142,000 System 12 digital lines plus transmission equipment, cables, training and maintenance; Alcatel has also opened an optical transmission systems plant in Tianjin which will manufacture products for 140Mbits per second equipment to be marketed jointly by Alcatel and the Tianjin Optical and Electrical Communication Corporation.
