Motorola Wins $260 Million CDMA Award From Pele-Phone; First to Deploy CDMA System in Israel.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)--Dec. 4, 1997-- 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) ) has been awarded a $260 million contract from Pele-Phone Communications, Ltd., Israel's first cellular network operator, to deploy the first 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. ) digital cellular network throughout Israel. Pele-Phone will run in parallel its existing Narrowband 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. (NAMPS NAMPS Narrowband Advanced Mobile Phone Service NAMPS Night-Attack Mission Planning System NAMPS Navy Manpower Programming System NAMPS Narrowband Analog Mobile Phone Service ) analog cellular network with the CDMA system, also called cdmaOne(TM). According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Benny Einhorn, general manager of Pele-Phone, "We believe CDMA is the only digital cellular technology which will support our aggressive network growth requirements and enable us to provide services, such as Short Message Service, which our customers demand." "Motorola CIG has a long-standing relationship with Pele-Phone," said Adrian Nemcek, corporate vice president and general manager of Motorola CIG's European Cellular Infrastructure Group. "It is rewarding to have been chosen as the vendor to upgrade Pele-Phone's system. We look forward to this opportunity and to strengthening further our relationship with them." Motorola CIG supplied an Advanced Mobile Phone Service (AMPS) analog cellular network to Pele-Phone in 1986 and its current NAMPS analog system in 1994. The Motorola CIG CDMA system to be deployed with Pele-Phone will have the capacity to serve a total of 740,000 subscribers, significantly enhancing the current capacity of the operator's analog cellular system. According to recent industry studies, the Israeli cellular market has one of the highest traffic densities in the world with a much higher usage per subscriber per month compared to subscribers in the U.S. Motorola CIG will install its digital SC(TM) series base transceiver system equipment -- which supports multiple air interfaces for versatile, modular growth -- along with its recently announced, open systems EMX EMX - A programming environment for OS/2 by Eberhard Mattes <mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>. EMX supports programming in C, C++ and Objective C. It works with gcc, g++, gdb, libg++, .obj linkage, DLL and headers. Version 0.8g. Europe. US. (R) 5000 mobile switch. Additionally, Pele-Phone will utilize the Short Message Service (SMS (1) (Storage Management System) Software used to routinely back up and archive files. See HSM. (2) (Systems Management Server) Systems management software from Microsoft that runs on Windows NT Server. ) which Motorola CIG has installed on all of the commercial CDMA systems it has deployed. The Motorola SMS system will enable subscribers to receive voice mail notification, digital pages, text messages, time stamp See timestamp. of messages, urgent message indication, voice mail message count and informational services such as stock quotes, sports scores, weather and traffic. Shipment of equipment is expected to begin this month with commercial service planned for 1998. Motorola CIG is a CDMA pioneer, having launched the world's first commercial CDMA system in Hong Kong in 1995. Since then, it has launched more than 30 commercial CDMA systems worldwide. For more information on Motorola CIG, please visit our web site at http://www.mot.com/cig/ Motorola, Inc. is one of the world's leading providers of wireless communications, semiconductors, and advanced electronic systems, components and services. Motorola's 1996 sales were $28 billion. CONTACT: Motorola CIG Cheryl Beck-Ruff, 847/632-2775 QCEL01@email.mot.com |
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