French based telecommunications company Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise has been awarded a contract to deliver communication and collaboration services to Fingal County Council, one of Irelands largest county councils.

Alcatel-Lucent will provide a Unified Communication and Collaboration solution which is designed to reduce the council’s communication costs while improving mobile working to 1,200 staff situated across 22 different sites.

The contract will see the provision of support services for new communications equipment as well as mobile services designed to allow users to use their mobile phones as they were desk phones.