Motorola Wins $170 Million Contract To Expand TU-KA'S Digital Cellular Network in Tokyo.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)--July 6, 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. ) announced today it has been awarded a $170 million contract from Japanese cellular operator TU-KA Cellular Tokyo Inc. to expand the existing personal digital cellular (PDC (1) (Primary Domain Controller) A Windows NT/2000 service that manages security for its local domain. Every domain has one PDC, which contains a database of usernames, passwords and permissions. ) system in the Tokyo metropolitan area. The expansion is composed of four phases. A contract for the phase 1 cell site expansion, signed in April, was for $17 million. This recent contract award covers the final three phases and involves more than 500 cell sites. The value of the contracts cover both installation and SC(TM)4810 and SC2410 base stations, SC410 microcells and base site controllers. Motorola NSS has already begun equipment deployment. Network commercial service will become operational by April 2001 in Tokyo and surrounding prefectures. The original PDC system, based on Time Division Multiple Access (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). ) technology, was supplied by Motorola in 1994. Motorola pioneered the SC architecture in Japan to support the Japanese PDC standard. The SC architecture was later evolved to support other technologies, such as 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. ). "With the rapid increasing demand for voice and data capability, this particular expansion will provide further improvement of the network's service quality,"said Hiroshi Fukumuro, Managing Director General Manager Technology & Engineering Div., TU-KA Cellular Tokyo Inc. "This network expansion will enhance the quality of communication by increasing the availability and capacity of the network. We are delighted that TU-KA is continuing its relationship with us to take their networks into the future," said Shinji Ogura, General Manager of NSS operations in Japan. About Motorola Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) is a global leader in providing integrated communications solutions and embedded electronic solutions. Sales in 1999 were $33.1 billion. For more information about Motorola, visit the web site at http://www.motorola.com/. About TU-KA Cellular Tokyo Inc. TU-KA Cellular Tokyo Inc. operates wireless service in the 1.5GHz band spectrum in the center of Tokyo and which covers much of the central region of Honshu, the principal island of Japan and the nation's most densely populated pop·u·late tr.v. pop·u·lat·ed, pop·u·lat·ing, pop·u·lates 1. To supply with inhabitants, as by colonization; people. 2. area. In conjunction with its partners, the TU-KA group provides nationwide PDC coverage for Japan. MOTOROLA, the Stylized styl·ize tr.v. styl·ized, styl·iz·ing, styl·iz·es 1. To restrict or make conform to a particular style. 2. To represent conventionally; conventionalize. M Logo and all other trademarks indicated as such herein are trademarks of Motorola, Inc.(R) Reg. U.S. Pat. & Tm. Off. All other product or service names are the property of their trademark owner respective owners. (c)2000 Motorola, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A. |
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