Ericsson receives first order in Chile for a D-AMPS/AMPS cellular system.STOCKHOLM--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 4, 1995--Ericsson has signed an order for a D-AMPS/AMPS wireless cellular system with Compania de Telecomunicaciones Moviles Chile S.A. (CTCC CTCC Chandigarh Territorial Congress Committee (India) CTCC Church Tax Compliance Committee (Church of Scientology) CTCC Community Treatment and Care Centre (East Belfast) ), one of the two operators in Chile. The Ericsson system will enable CTCC to offer the full range of digital services including Personal Communications Systems (PCS (1) (Personal Communications Services) Refers to wireless services that emerged after the U.S. government auctioned commercial licenses in 1994 and 1995. This radio spectrum in the 1. ) service. CTCC, a subsidiary of the partly Telefonica Internacional de Chile S.A. owned CTC CTC - Cornell Theory Center , has operated a cellular system since 1988. The order includes a Mobile Switching Center A switching center is a node in a telecommunications Circuit switching network which is connected to either another switching center and/or to end user devices. Switching centers are aware of other centers and possible routes between them such that on demand a center can establish and a number of the new RBS RBS Royal Bank of Scotland RBS Role Based Security RBS Rollback Segment RBS Rare Book School (University of Virginia) RBS Rural Business Cooperative Service RBS Ribosome Binding Site (genetics) 884 base stations enabling CTCC to offer complete Wireless Intelligent Network services for digital as well as analog subscribers. The system will be in commercial service early in 1996. "Chile has the most rapidly expanding economy in Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. and we want to offer state-of-the-art technology to support this growth," says Gerardo Marti Casadevall, general director of Compania de Telecomunicaciones Moviles Chile S.A. "The addition of Chile to the D-AMPS (Digital-Advanced Mobile Phone Service) The second generation of TDMA. See IS-136. coverage area in Latin America is an important step, enabling operators to provide seamless coverage throughout the region, and the beginning of inter-regional roaming with North America and Asia," says Sven Christer Nilsson, vice president of Ericsson Radio Systems and general manager for the business unit. The new version of D-AMPS (IS-136) incorporates a digital control channel allowing operators to easily introduce fully-digital features and services in their existing infrastructure. Examples of such features and services are sleep mode, data and fax capabilities, enhanced automatic international roaming, support for private systems and advanced mobile station support for hierarchical cell structures. Currently, there are almost two million subscribers using D-AMPS networks and 40 million using AMPS networks worldwide, all with the potential of migrating to digital D-AMPS in the future. Ericsson's networks support over 15 million of these subscribers. Ericsson's 80,000 employees are active in more than 100 countries. Their combined expertise in switching, radio and networking makes Ericsson a world leader in telecommunications. CONTACT: Ericsson Corp. Kathy Egan or Lars Jonsteg, 212/685-4030 |
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