Egypt's Mobinil Chooses Motorola for $60 Million GSM Network Growth.CAIRO, Egypt--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 5, 1998--Mobinil, the new GSM network operator in Egypt, announced today that it has awarded a contract worth up to $60 million to Motorola, Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group (CIG CIG Ceiling (height above ground level to base of clouds) CIG Conference Intergouvernementale (French: Intergovermental Conference) CIG Conservation Innovation Grants (USDA NRCS) ). The contract is for turnkey installation of GSM infrastructure equipment at 900MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. in the city of Alexandria and the Nile Delta The Nile Delta (Arabic:دلتا النيل) is the delta formed in Northern Egypt where the Nile River spreads , serving a potential subscriber base of 30 million people. The Mobinil consortium, led by France Telecom Mobiles, was awarded the first GSM operating licence earlier this year following the privatisation of the network, which went into commercial service in November 1996. Currently the network has 110,000 subscribers, and has enormous growth potential. The first phase enhancement and expansion of the network is due to begin immediately, with completion by the end of 2000. Motorola CIG will install and commission its market-leading M-Cell(TM) GSM base station infrastructure to provide wide area coverage and high capacity urban coverage. Emphasis will be on network quality, with Motorola CIG implementing key technologies including Enhanced Full Rate Enhanced Full Rate or EFR or GSM-EFR is a speech coding standard that was developed in order to improve the quite poor quality of GSM-Full Rate (FR) codec. Working at 12.2 kbit/s the EFR provides wirelike quality in any noise free and background noise conditions. (EFR EFR Early Failure Rate (reliability) EFR Emergency First Response/Responder EFR Enhanced Full Rate EFR Efficient Foodservice Response (initiative) EFR Employee & Family Resources ) and Synthesiser Noun 1. synthesiser - an intellectual who synthesizes or uses synthetic methods synthesist, synthesizer intellectual, intellect - a person who uses the mind creatively 2. Frequency Hopping A wireless modulation method that rapidly changes the center frequency of a transmission. See spread spectrum and 802.11. (SFH SFH Single Family Home SFH Saint Francis Hospital (several in US) SFH Society for Family Health SfH Skills for Health (UK) SFH Slow Frequency Hopping SFH Symphysis-Fundal Height SFH Spectrum Flight Hour ) to ensure optimum network performance. Osman Sultan, chief executive officer of Mobinil, said: "We have an unrivalled opportunity to bring quality mobile telecommunications within reach of all the people of Egypt. We are committed to rapid network expansion while providing the highest standards of network and services to meet the strong demand for mobile services." Adrian Nemcek, corporate vice president and general manager of Motorola CIG for Europe, Middle East and Africa, said: "Predictions show up to two million new subscribers in Egypt over the next three years. We are proud to be involved in this most vibrant of GSM markets, and to be continuing our worldwide business association with France Telecom, and to work with Mobinil in this new, exciting and challenging environment." Motorola CIG is a pioneer in the development, manufacture and deployment of cellular networks worldwide. To date, Motorola CIG has cellular networks deployed in more than 80 countries, served by major development and manufacturing facilities in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Brazil and the United Kingdom. Motorola, Inc. is one of the world's leading providers of wireless communications, semiconductors, and advanced electronic systems, components and services. Motorola's 1997 sales were $29.8 billion. For more information on Motorola CIG, please visit: http://www.mot.com/cig
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