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About GridTalk GridTalk is the Alcatel-Lucent quarterly business e-magazine for power industry professionals, offering perspectives from around the globe on how smart grid technology can help power generation companies, distributors and their partners optimize operational efficiency, improve reliability and quality, guarantee security, and empower the customer. The unprecedented benefits of the Smart Grid are here now and are already being utilized by the world's leading power utilities. GridTalk provides unique, comprehensive and invaluable expert insights into Smart Grid communications from the view of the operator, supplier and end user. Published as an interactive, online forum, GridTalk encourages readers to engage with our experts by rating articles, participating in quick polls and leaving comments to discuss key topics focused on their business challenges and Smart Grid communication solutions. UTelco - Enhance revenue and lay the foundation for innovation Over the last two decades utilities from around the world have increasingly entered the market to provide their customers with high-speed data, voice and video through wholesale and retail service. Learn how the rollout of smart grid communications coupled with the necessity to increase profitability, are making UTelco business models more promising than ever before - for the utilities as well as for society. Read more... New views on UTelco business opportunities: Building for the new creative economy John Eger, former Director of the White House Office of Telecommunication Policy and now Director of the Creative Economy Initiative at San Diego State University, argues that municipalities need to think seriously about getting into the telecom business. UTelcos offer unprecedented potential for utilities and regional economies Utilities from around the world are recognizing that the right mix of assets, market demand and regulatory landscape offers significant potential for becoming a UTelco. Dalton Utilities empowers its community with broadband telecom In 2003 Georgia's Dalton Utilities launched OptiLink. The service has been a huge success, averaging more than a 60% customer penetration over Dalton's service area, boosting the region's economic activity while providing the utility with enough revenue to keep its technology cutting edge for decades into the future. Tapping into UTelco business opportunities The ongoing worldwide deployment of smart grid communications technology is creating unprecedented business opportunities for utilities looking to enter the telecom market — as long as they are able to match their assets with favorable regulatory and competitive factors. Learn More ›› Download GridTalk as a PDF ›› Alcatel-Lucent Power Utilities solutions ›› EPB Chattanooga Customer Reference ›› Contact an Alcatel-Lucent Sales Representative - if you are interested in     purchasing our products and solutions. ›› To speak to an expert, drop us a line at Internet.marketing@alcatel-lucent.com

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