Alcatel NV is to supply more than 80,000 lines of digital exchanges to Ecuador under two contracts totalling about $34m: under the first contract, worth $25.6m, the Ecuadorian Institute of Telecommunications ordered 10 E10 exchanges totalling 66,000 lines for the capital, Quito, and for Guayaquil; the second, $8.4m, contract is from the Ecuadorian company Etapa and is to extend an E10 switch in Cuenca by 17,750 lines, taking the twoyearold exchange to 30,000 lines.
