Alcatel-Lucent and Vivacom, Bulgaria's leading communications services provider, are upgrading the operator’s broadband network to bring subscribers video, voice and data services comparable to the best available throughout the European Union.

To meet the goals of the EU’s Digital Agenda for next generation broadband access, Vivacom is deploying Alcatel-Lucent’s gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) solution. In addition to providing 1 000,000 Bulgarian households with higher connection speeds as well as increased service reliability, the service provider will also benefit from a reduction in operating costs.

Bulgaria supports the EU's Digital Agenda which has set goals of providing speeds of 100 Mbps to half of European households and 30 Mbps to all European households by 2020. The large increase in available broadband speeds is necessary to support faster download and upload speeds coming from high-definition video, 3D television and interactive gaming, multimedia communication, public online services, machine-to-machine communications, and user-created content. Vivacom will be providing 100 Mbps to customers in the cities of Sofia, Varna and Plovdiv in 2012 - with additional cities to follow.

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