Motorola Signs Contract for Countrywide CDMA Cellular Network in Peru.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)--Sept. 29, 1997-- Contract Worth Approximately $350 Million Motorola, Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group (CIG CIG Ceiling (height above ground level to base of clouds) CIG Conference Intergouvernementale (French: Intergovermental Conference) CIG Conservation Innovation Grants (USDA NRCS) ) today announced that it has been awarded a contract worth approximately $350 million to expand the 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. ) countrywide cellular network for operator Telefonica del Peru. For this award, Telefonica del Peru evaluated solutions and technologies from the major cellular infrastructure manufacturers, using either TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) A satellite and cellular phone technology that interleaves multiple digital signals onto a single high-speed channel. For cellular, TDMA triples the capacity of the original analog method (FDMA). (IS-136) or CDMA, also called cdmaOne(TM). After the process, it chose Motorola's CDMA solution. Motorola CIG installed the trial CDMA network in Lima for Telefonica del Peru in October 1996. Commercial service was launched in December of 1996 with nearly 10,000 subscribers currently being served. Over the next five years, Telefonica's expansion plans call for more than one million subscribers to be served by the CDMA network. As part of the contract with Telefonica del Peru, Motorola CIG will install its large-capacity digital mobile switching platform and its state-of-the-art, digital SC(TM) Series base stations, which will be installed in a mixed-mode configuration and will replace the existing Advanced Mobile Phone Service Advanced Mobile Phone Service, Inc. was a subsidiary of AT&T prior to the Bell System Divestiture. Abbreviated AMPS, the company was created in 1978 to build and operate the new Advanced Mobile Phone System also abbreviated AMPS. (AMPS) network. Shipment of equipment began in July. Commercial CDMA service will be launched in Peru's main cities over the next several years. "With the huge subscriber growth we are experiencing in Peru, it was important for us to select CDMA to meet our capacity requirements and allow us to offer the quality services that will differentiate us in the wireless marketplace," said Manuel Garcia Manuel Garcia can refer to:
Jack Finlayson, corporate vice president and general manager of Motorola CIG's Americas Cellular Infrastructure Group said, "This contract is extremely significant for 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. since it marks the first countrywide CDMA deployment by a wireless operator in Latin America. We commend Telefonica del Peru for its leadership in selecting CDMA and its commitment to providing the best cellular service possible to its rapidly growing subscriber base." Telefonica del Peru is a subsidiary of Telefonica Internacional S.A., the international arm of Telefonica de Espana. Telefonica provides several telecommunication services throughout Peru including cellular, paging and PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) The worldwide voice telephone network. Once only an analog system, the heart of most telephone networks today is all digital. In the U.S. (Public Switch Telephone Network) services. It also has interests in several other countries in Latin America, including Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Puerto Rico Puerto Rico (pwār`tō rē`kō), island (2005 est. pop. 3,917,000), 3,508 sq mi (9,086 sq km), West Indies, c.1,000 mi (1,610 km) SE of Miami, Fla. , Spain and Venezuela. Motorola CIG designs, develops, manufactures, markets and services wireless systems and infrastructure equipment for wireless communications wireless communications System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data. networks worldwide. For more information on Motorola CIG, visit the web site at "http:www.mot.com/cig". Motorola, Inc. is one of the world's leading providers of wireless communications, semiconductors and advanced electronics systems, components and services. Its 1996 sales were $28 billion. NOTE TO EDITORS: An "at" symbol follows "wyman_scott" in the email address below. This symbol may not appear properly in some systems. CONTACT: Motorola CIG Scott Wyman, 847/632-4691 wyman_scott@msah6.cig.mot.com |
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