Ericsson receives first D-AMPS AMPS order in Uzbekistan, Russian Federation.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 28, 1996--Ericsson has signed a contract for the first D-AMPS/AMPS wireless communications system in Uzbekistan with Rubicon Wireless Communications, a privately-owned operator in the region.

The contract is valued at approximately $6 million, and the system will provide mobile telephone service in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, to approximately 2,5 million inhabitants.

The order includes a Mobile Switching center and Ericsson's RBS 882 and RBS 884 base stations. The system will initially provide capacity for 1,500 subscribers. The first test call on the system is scheduled for June 1996, with commercial operation planned for August 1996.

"This order enables us to provide enhanced service opportunities for our customers in competition with the other cellular operator in the region," says Mr. Martinson, the President of Rubicon Wireless Communications.

Ericsson's presence in Russia goes back to as early as 1881 when Ericsson received the first order for the supply of telephones in St. Petersburg. Since then Ericsson has been present in the Russian Federation. In November 1994 Ericsson opened a local company, Ericsson Corporatia, in Moscow. Currently there are almost 3 million subscribers using digital D-AMPS networks and over 47 million subscribers using analog AMPS networks worldwide, all with the potential of migrating to digital D-AMPS in the future. Ericsson's networks support over 18 million of these D-AMPS/AMPS subscribers worldwide.

Ericsson's 85,000 employees are active in more than 100 countries. Their combined expertise in switching, radio and networking makes Ericsson a world leader in telecommunications.

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