Telcel of Venezuela Selects Lucent Technologies for cdmaOne Overlay of Its Wireless Network.CARACAS, Venezuela--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 15, 1998--Lucent Technologies today announced it has received a contract -- valued at up to $100 million -- to upgrade the cellular network of Telcel, Venezuela's leading wireless telecommunications service provider A Telecommunications Service Provider or TSP is a type of Communications Service Provider that has traditionally provided telephone and similar services. This category includes ILECs, CLECs, and mobile wireless companies. . Telcel will upgrade its system from analog to digital, utilizing the cdmaOne(R) digital wireless standard, a step that will expand the capacity and customer features of its cellular network. The initial phase of the modernization project is slated for Caracas, the capital of Venezuela Noun 1. capital of Venezuela - the capital and largest city of Venezuela Caracas Republic of Venezuela, Venezuela - a republic in northern South America on the Caribbean; achieved independence from Spain in 1811; rich in oil , where Lucent will install a mobile switching center A switching center is a node in a telecommunications Circuit switching network which is connected to either another switching center and/or to end user devices. Switching centers are aware of other centers and possible routes between them such that on demand a center can establish (MSC (1) (MSC.Software Corporation, Santa Ana, CA, www.mscsoftware.com) Founded in 1963 by Richard H. MacNeal and Robert G. Schwendler, MSC is the world's largest provider of mechanical computer aided engineering (MCAE) strategies, simulation software and services. ), using its flagship 5ESS(R) Switch and Autoplex(R) System 1000 Series II cell cites, and will provide technical expertise and support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services . "We believe Lucent's advanced technology platform provides the innovation we require to move into the next generation of services that our customers demand," said Enrique Garcia V., president, Telcel's Operations Group. "As competition intensifies with the coming deregulation Deregulation The reduction or elimination of government power in a particular industry, usually enacted to create more competition within the industry. Notes: Traditional areas that have been deregulated are the telephone and airline industries. of Venezuela's telecommunications marketplace, innovation and reliability will determine how successful we are in winning subscribers." Mario Lizaso, president, Telcel's Corporate Group, stated, "Lucent Technologies was one of two vendors to conduct 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. trials with Telcel in 1996. The trials proved CDMA's technological advances and potential for growth, combined with superb voice quality." The new Lucent equipment incorporating the cdmaOne standard is based on code division multiple access (CDMA), the newest commercially deployed digital wireless technology based on an industry standard called IS-95. This technology provides wireless carriers with greater call capacity than analog and other digital systems and offers customers enhanced call quality that is comparable to landline service. CDMA reduces the static and cross-talk sometimes heard on analog systems and provides a "soft hand-off" capability that makes call hand-offs between cell sites and mobile switching centers (MSCs) virtually unnoticeable to customers. "We are extremely pleased to have been selected as Telcel's technology supplier in this important project," said Carlos Linares, vice president for South America South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. at Lucent Technologies. "We believe our system architecture is a key selling point selling point n. An aspect of a product or service that is stressed in advertising or marketing. Noun 1. selling point - a characteristic of something that is up for sale that makes it attractive to potential customers since the network we install today has all of the necessary features to allow for smooth transitions to future innovations." Telcel is a joint venture between BellSouth and Venezuelan-based Comtel. Telcel holds 60 percent share of the cellular market in Venezuela, with more than 350,000 subscribers in Caracas alone and over a million throughout the nation. Operating on the A-Band license, the company began commercial service in 1991. Further information about Telcel is available on the worldwide web at http://www.telcel.net.ve Lucent Technologies is a leading provider of wireless infrastructure equipment utilizing all of the major global wireless standards - AMPS, 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). , CDMA and GSM. An industry leader in CDMA technology, Lucent has more than 100 cdmaOne networks either in commercial operation or under construction for 25 network operators worldwide. In the Caribbean and Latin America region, Lucent Technologies has won contracts to build cdmaOne networks in Mexico, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Guadeloupe. In North America, Lucent is the leading provider of cdmaOne infrastructure equipment for the largest 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. network providers - PrimeCo Personal Communications, Sprint PCS and others - and for cellular carriers such as GTE GTE General Telephone & Electronics GTE Génie Thermique et Énergie (French) GTE Gas Turbine Engine GTE Global Tropospheric Experiment GTE Geothermal Energy GTE Gas Turbine Efficiency plc (Sweden & USA) , AirTouch and Bell Atlantic Mobile. Lucent Technologies designs, builds and delivers a wide range of public and private networks, communications systems and software, data networking systems, business telephone systems and microelectronics components. Bell Laboratories is Lucent's research and development arm. Further information about Lucent Technologies is available on the worldwide web at http://www.lucent.com cdmaOne is a trademark of the CDMA Development Group CONTACT: Lucent Technologies, U.S. Barbara Burgess Office: 908/559-6310 Home: 973/267-9615 barbarab@lucent.com or Lucent Technologies, Latin America Inge Sengelmann Office: 305/569-4895 Home: 305/569-4896, 305/273-8230 sengelmann@lucent.com or Telcel, Venezuela Aide Cisneros, +582-201-8205 |
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