Alcatel-Lucent has introduced its new value-added distributor Avetel to serve small and medium businesses and mid market communications needs in Portugal.

Alcatel-Lucent has said that Avetel, a distributor of telecommunications equipment in Portugal, with a presence in the North of the country will play an important role energizing the Portuguese small and medium businesses (SMBs) and mid market and in delivering the Alcatel-Lucent Business Partner Program.

Nuno Almeida, director at Avetel, said: Partnering with a communications leader such as Alcatel-Lucent will allow us to expand our activities and customer base in Portugal, but also to greatly improve our offer in terms of communication solutions.

Nuno Carvalho, director of Alcatel-Lucent’s enterprise activities in Portugal, said: Alcatel-Lucent’s commitment to the enterprise market is to help organizations become more dynamic by interconnecting a company’s network, employees, processes and knowledge and, thereby achieving a better business performance. But this can only be reached with the help of our business partners and Avetel, as our new value added partner clearly adds value to our enterprise communications solutions business in Portugal.