BellSouth's Compania de Radiocomunicaciones Moviles S.A. and Lucent Technologies sign contract for CDMA wireless network in Argentina.

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--November 3, 1999--

Compania de Radiocomunicaciones Moviles S.A., a subsidiary of Atlanta-based BellSouth -- which provides communications services in Argentina under the brand Movicom/BellSouth -- and Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU) have signed a three-year contract to deploy a wireless network in Argentina.

Movicom/BellSouth - which is 65 percent owned by BellSouth -- plans to build a CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) wireless network throughout the interior of Argentina. The new network will allow Movicom/BellSouth, which already provides wireless communications service in metropolitan Buenos Aires, to extend service to the rest of Argentina. The network will be based on Flexent(TM), Lucent's wireless network architecture, and is expected to include several hundred Lucent cell sites and Lucent's 5ESS-2000(R) Switches.

"Movicom/BellSouth is already the market leader for wireless telephony in Buenos Aires. This new network will extend our leadership in the mobile telephony market throughout Argentina while also providing a platform for new services such as long distance," said Mauricio Wior, president of Movicom/BellSouth and executive vice president of BellSouth International for Southern Cone Latin America.

"The Flexent network is our next-generation architecture that will protect Movicom/BellSouth's investment into the next century," said Carole Spurrier, vice president - North America for Lucent Technologies. "Our CDMA wireless network technology will support the greater capacity and improved data rates required to meet the demands of Movicom/BellSouth's customers."

Lucent has built more than 160 CDMA networks around the world - including systems in Canada, China, Thailand, South Korea, the Philippines and Indonesia - for 26 different customers.

In the Caribbean and Latin America regions, Lucent is building CDMA networks in Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Venezuela, Guatemala, El Salvador, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. In North America, Lucent has installed more than half the CDMA systems in the United States, covering 80 percent of the population. More than 16 million wireless calls per day travel over Lucent's CDMA wireless network systems.

BellSouth is a $25 billion communications services company. It provides telecommunications, wireless communications, cable and digital TV, directory advertising and publishing, and Internet and data services to nearly 36 million customers in 19 countries worldwide. More information on BellSouth is available at http://www.bellsouth.com.

Lucent Technologies designs, builds and delivers a wide range of public and private networks, communications systems and software, business telephone systems and microelectronics components. Bell Labs is the research and development arm for the company. More information about Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., is available on its web site at http://www.lucent.com.