NORTEL NETWORKS.
NORTEL NETWORKS (Nortel Networks Limited, Brampton, Ontario, www.nortelnetworks.com) A world leader in telecommunications products, which includes switching, wireless and broadband systems for service providers and carriers, telephones and systems for residential and business users, computer telephony , a Canadian Canadian (kənā`dēən), river, 906 mi (1,458 km) long, rising in NE New Mexico. and flowing E across N Texas and central Oklahoma into the Arkansas River in E Oklahoma. telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. equipment company, landed a US$86 million contract with Haiti Telecommunications International (Haitel) to build a digital wireless telephone network in Haiti using 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. technology. It is the largest private investment ever made in Haiti. Initially, the Haitel network will serve 60,000 subscribers in the Haitian capital of Port-Au-Prince. In five years, Haitel expects to have 500,000 customers. Haitel is made up of several private investors, including MCIWorldcom.
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