LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES TO PROVIDE 3G WIRELESS SYSTEMS AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICES TO METROPCS.$161 Million Contract Prepares MetroPCS Service Launch in 14 Metro Areas MetroPCS and Lucent Technologies (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : LU) have announced a three-year, $161 million contract for Lucent to provide third-generation (3G) wireless systems and related professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. to MetroPCS, which plans to be a provider of wireless services in major metropolitan areas of the U.S. Under terms of the all-cash agreement, which does not include vendor financing Vendor Financing The lending of money by a company to one of its customers so that the customer can buy products from it. By doing this, the company increases its sales even though it is basically buying its own products. , Lucent will install an all-digital wireless network based on Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) A method for transmitting simultaneous signals over a shared portion of the spectrum. The foremost application of CDMA is the digital cellular phone technology from QUALCOMM that operates in the 800 MHz band and 1.9 GHz PCS band. ) technology in MetroPCS' 14 wireless markets, including Atlanta, San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , Sacramento, Miami and Ft. Lauderdale. The deployment of the network will include products from Lucent's 3G Flexent family of mobile switching centers and base stations, which support the CDMA2000 3G standard. Lucent also will provide installation, enhanced program management and network design services through its Lucent Worldwide Services organization. "With Lucent's help, we plan to introduce our competitive wireless services early next year," said Roger Linquist, president and chief executive officer of MetroPCS. "We anticipate our services will be attractive to the unserved and underserved portions of the wireless voice market." Lucent will install equipment with CDMA2000 technology capabilities. CDMA2000 1X is based on the internationally adopted CDMA2000 standard of the International Telecommunications Union See ITU. (body, standard) International Telecommunications Union - (ITU) ITU-T, the telecommunication standardisation sector of ITU, is responsible for making technical recommendations about telephone and data (including fax) communications systems for PTTs and suppliers. , an arm of the United Nations, and enables today's CDMA to support more users and improve data performance. "Our expertise in CDMA, our ability to quickly roll out greenfield networks and our 3G equipment will promptly put MetroPCS in the position to offer competitive voice services with an eye on high-speed 3G data services in the future, without the need for new spectrum," said Bob Bellion, vice president of sales for Lucent. |
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