Motorola Continues Success in China Market With $55 Million GSM Business in Hubei.Business Editors/Telecommunications Writers ARLINGTON HEIGHTS Arlington Heights, village (1990 pop. 75,460), Cook county, NE Ill., a residential suburb of Chicago; founded 1836, inc. 1887. Its manufactures include machinery, drugs and medical equipment, and metal fabrication. Arlington Park racetrack is there. , Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 12, 2000 Motorola Inc.'s (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :MOT) Network Solutions Sector (NSS (Novell Storage Services) A 64-bit file system introduced with NetWare 5 that can support terabyte-sized files. NSS files and standard NetWare files can be used in the same server. See NetWare 5. 1. (networking) NSS - Nodal Switching System. ) has strengthened its presence further in China's growing GSM market with the award of a US$ 55 million Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) digital cellular network replacement contract in China's Hubei Province. The Hubei Mobile Communications Corporation (Hubei 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. ), which operates a mobile phone network in Hubei, will deploy Motorola NSS's new generation Horizonsystems portfolio of GSM infrastructure solutions to upgrade and reconfigure another manufacturer's existing GSM 900 network in Jianghan, Huangshi, Ezhou, Shiyan and Enshi, five of Hubei Province's principal cities. With the expansion, Motorola's GSM network will cover a total of eight cities in the province. Concurrent with the replacement, Motorola NSS will also supply a GSM 1800 system in Yichang, a major city in Hubei. This marks the second time within one month that Motorola NSS received orders to supply GSM 1800 networks in China and this contract also brings the total number of Motorola NSS-supplied GSM 1800 networks in China to 9 provinces and special municipalities, which include Jilin, Liaoning, Hunan, Anhui, Shandong, Fujian, Guangxi, Hubei, and Beijing. By yearend, when the system replacements and expansions are expected to be completed, the network will be able to accommodate 1.85 million subscribers, an increased subscriber capacity of 650,000. "GSM continues to build momentum in China as a digital technology providing high traffic-carrying capacity and can be easily migrated to high-speed data networks of the future," said Ruey Bin Kao, general manager of China operations of Motorola's Greater China Network Solutions Division. "We want to thank Hubei MCC for their confidence in our products and people and their continuous relationship with Motorola to take their networks into the future." A portion of the contract was awarded to Motorola NSS through 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. Eastcom has licensing and joint venture agreements with Motorola NSS to manufacture, distribute and provide service for Motorola's NSS GSM and 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. ) cellular infrastructure products within China. Eastcom has been supplying Motorola NSS digital cellular equipment in China since 1995. 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 in·fill n. 1. The use of vacant land and property within a built-up area for further construction or development, especially as part of a neighborhood preservation or limited growth program. 2. 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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