Motorola Breaks Into New GSM Market With GSM1800 Network in China's Guangxi Province.Business Editors/Telecommunications Writers ARLINGTON HEIGHTS Arlington Heights, village (1990 pop. 75,460), Cook county, NE Ill., a residential suburb of Chicago; founded 1836, inc. 1887. Its manufactures include machinery, drugs and medical equipment, and metal fabrication. Arlington Park racetrack is there. , Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 12, 2000 Motorola Inc.'s (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : MOT) Network Solutions Sector (NSS (Novell Storage Services) A 64-bit file system introduced with NetWare 5 that can support terabyte-sized files. NSS files and standard NetWare files can be used in the same server. See NetWare 5. 1. (networking) NSS - Nodal Switching System. ), a market maker in the wireless communication industry, said today that it has expanded its presence in China with the award of a contract for a new digital cellular network in Guangxi Province. The US$10 million contract, awarded by the Guangxi Mobile Communications Corporation (Guangxi MCC (The Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, Austin, TX) The first high-tech research and development consortium in the U.S., created in 1982 by leading companies within the electronics industry. ), is Motorola NSS's first-ever in Guangxi Province. The contract calls for the installation and deployment of a Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) 1800 network. With the signing of this latest contract, Motorola NSS's GSM system deployments will now cover 18 provinces and special municipalities in China. Also, including Guangxi, Motorola NSS has supplied GSM 1800 networks to 8 provinces and special municipalities in the country such as Jilin, Liaoning, Hunan, Anhui, Shandong, Fujian, Beijing. Guangxi Province, which has only a brief history of mobile telephony, boasts a population of 46 million people. Under the terms the contract, which also involves China Eastern Communications Company Communications Company is a communications unit of the United States Marine Corps. They are part of Combat Logistics Regiment 37 , 3rd Marine Logistics Group (3MLG) and III Marine Expeditionary Force (III MEF). The unit is based out of the Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. Limited (Eastcom), Motorola's licensee and manufacture partner in China, Motorola NSS will install its new generation Horizonsystems portfolio of GSM infrastructure solutions in Guangxi's two major cities of Liuzhou and Guilin, which is one of China's most popular tourist destinations. When completed in the third quarter, the network will have a subscriber capacity of 115,000. This contract, which covers three cities The Three Cities is a collective description of the three fortified cities of Cospicua, Vittoriosa, and Senglea on the Island of Malta, which are enclosed by the massive line of fortification created by the Knights of St John, the Cottonera Lines. , represents the first phase of the Guangxi GSM1800 network. Bidding for the second phase will begin later this year. Eastcom has licensing and joint venture agreements with Motorola NSS to manufacture, distribute and provide service for Motorola's NSS GSM and 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. (Code Division Multiple Access) cellular infrastructure products within China. Eastcom has been supplying Motorola NSS digital cellular equipment in China since 1995. "We are very pleased to have Guangxi MCC join our family of GSM customers in China," said Ruey Bin Kao, general manager of China Operations of Motorola's Greater China Network Solutions Division. "All of us at Motorola are grateful for the trust Guangxi MCC has placed in us and in our ability to deliver a technologically superior wireless solution." Motorola NSS's Horizonsystems are market-leading solutions for both wide-area and targeted-coverage and capacity. For wide-area coverage, it provides macrocellular coverage from transceivers that are link-balanced for optimum performance. Its small size, easy expansion capability, and readiness for the new mobile data General Packet Radio Service (GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) The first high-speed digital data service provided by cellular carriers that used the GSM technology. GPRS added a packet-switched channel to GSM, which uses dedicated, circuit-switched channels for voice conversations. ) and dual band (GSM 900/1800MHz (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. ) implementation, provide flexibility for the future. For areas of high subscriber density, Motorola's Horizonmicro GSM solution answers a number of coverage issues in both new and expanding networks by providing focused coverage. For example, single Horizonmicros can be deployed to provide urban infill coverage, and can be linked to provide a contiguous microcellular layer providing greater network coverage and capacity. About Motorola Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) is a global leader in providing integrated communications solutions and embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. electronic solutions. Sales in 1999 were $33.1 billion. More company information is available at www.motorola.com. Motorola is a registered trademark of Motorola, Inc. All other brand names or corporate names are trademarks of their respective owners. |
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