Motorola Wins $30 Million Deal To Replace Analog Cellular Network in Nebraska.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)--Nov. 10, 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) ) announced today it has won a contract valued at more than $30 million to replace Aliant Cellular Inc.'s existing analog cellular network and will deploy its 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 ) and digital 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 equipment in Aliant's Omaha and Lincoln, Nebraska markets. "We are pleased that Aliant Cellular selected Motorola CIG's NAMPS and digital CDMA cellular solutions," said Jack Finlayson, corporate vice president and general manager of Motorola's Americas Cellular Infrastructure Group. "By deploying NAMPS and CDMA in these markets, Aliant Cellular will immediately realize an increase in subscriber capacity and cellular subscribers in Omaha and Lincoln will have access to the latest wireless technology delivering quality analog and digital connections as well as enhanced services such as cellular digital messaging." As part of the agreement, Motorola CIG will install its state-of-the-art SC(TM)9600 base station equipment. Motorola CIG's SC9600 family of base stations supports multiple analog and digital radio frequency interfaces including AMPS (Advanced Mobile Phone Service), NAMPS and CDMA. Motorola's new high-capacity 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) (Electronic Mobile Exchange) 5000 switch will also be utilized in the networks. Motorola CIG launched the world's first commercial CDMA network in Hong Kong in 1995 and to date has won 73 contracts to deploy CDMA commercial and trial cellular, PCS (1) (Personal Communications Services) Refers to wireless services that emerged after the U.S. government auctioned commercial licenses in 1994 and 1995. This radio spectrum in the 1. and wireless local loop systems in 25 countries. Aliant Cellular provides coverage throughout Nebraska. Aliant Communications, the parent company headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska, is a diversified communications company providing a comprehensive array of services and retail products to consumers, businesses, educational institutions, and government agencies and wholesale network services to other communications companies. Motorola 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. For more information on Motorola CIG, visit the web site at http://www.mot.com/cig/. CONTACT: Motorola CIG Jack Seller, 847/632-7248 qa4646@email.mot.com |
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