Yahoo! BB awarded an expansion contract valued in excess of $40 million to UTStarcom for its IP-DSLAM. Shipments on this contract are taking place in support of Yahoo! BB’s plan to begin promoting its new 45 Mbps high-speed ADSL service this month, with services expected to launch by the end of January 2004.
As of the end of November, Yahoo! BB was serving some 3.5 million subscribers. The “BB Phone” VoIP service currently has approximately 3.3 million subscribers.
Yahoo! BB introduced 8 Mbps ADSL data service in September 2001, attracting more than 100,000 subscribers in the first month alone. In July 2002, the 8 Mbps service was supplanted by Japan’s first 12 Mbps service, which also provided subscribers with a personal mailbox, a homepage, and a wide range of value-added services.
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