Telefonica Moviles Espana Award Motorola a Multi Million Dollar Nationwide TETRA Contract.Business Editors/Telecommunications Writers MADRID--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 31, 2000 Telefonica Moviles Espana, the Spanish market leader in mobile telephony has awarded Motorola Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :MOT), the world's leading supplier of TETRA systems and handsets the first nationwide TETRA infrastructure contract for commercial deployment in Spain. This contract covers the first phase of Telefonicas nationwide TETRA infrastructure. The initial contract with Motorola is estimated to worth 13 million Euros and will be completed by January 2001. Manuel Torres, Motorola added " Telefonica is clearly the leading GSM operator in Spain and Motorola will be enabling them to enhance their core GSM services GSM services are a standard collection of applications and features available to mobile phone subscribers all over the world. The GSM standards are defined by the 3GPP collaboration and implemented in hardware and software by equipment manufacturers and mobile phone operators. . I believe this multi-functional communication system will provide important benefits to business users throughout Spain as it does today, in other parts of the world. Motorola has been successfully awarded over 30 TETRA contracts including trial systems in more than 19 countries. This demonstrates we are the preferred choice and Motorola's true breadth of products and services enables us to be ideally positioned in supplying Telefonica with this new service. I am absolutely delighted to announce this significant contract with Telefonica which follows intensive negotiations over the past 9 months." The Motorola TETRA system will enable commercial users to use a single handset, which incorporates the functionality of a two-way radio A voice network that provides an always-on connection enabling the user to just "push the button and talk." Also called "dispatch radio," two-way radio has traditionally been used by police, fire, taxi and other mobile fleets. , cellular telephone functionality with additional data capabilities. The Motorola Dimetra service combines the benefits of voice and data communications data communications, application of telecommunications technology to the problem of transmitting data, especially to, from, or between computers. In popular usage, it is said that data communications make it possible for one computer to "talk" with another. on a single handset for individual and group/team communications at the push of a button. These are important benefits for customers working in teams on a day to day basis. Motorola were the only supplier that could demonstrate real wide area group communications and are ideally positioned with expertise in all areas of communications. Telefonica were awarded a license to operate earlier this year and this will be the first such service available in Spain. The Motorola TETRA system, Dimetra, is a highly sophisticated complete range of digital radio equipment that delivers the full benefits of the TETRA standard. TETRA is the ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute, Sophia Antipolis technical park, Nice, France, www.etsi.org) A non-profit membership organization founded in 1988, dedicated to standardizing information and communication technologies (ICT) throughout Europe. digital mobile radio communication standard designed to meet the needs of users of both private and public access mobile radio networks (PMR PMR 1 Percutaneous myocardial revascularization, see there 2 Perinatal mortality rate 3 Polymyalgia rheumatica 4 Proportionate mortality ratio, see there and PAMR PAMR Public Access Mobile Radio PAMR Private Access Mobile Radio PAMR Pennsylvania Military Reserve PAMR Post-Auricular Muscle Reflex PAMR Public Access with Mobile Radio ). TETRA provides enhanced spectrum efficiency, wide-area coverage, mobile data transmission, and capability for voice and data encryption. Earlier this month Motorola announced another major commitment with Telefonica, which was the establishment of a Joint Applications Development Centre (JADC JADC Just Another Doom Clone (game review comment) ) in Madrid specifically for the joint development of wireless applications and services. Motorola has recently been awarded several TETRA contracts in Spain for its Dimetra solution including The Basque Country, Navarra, Iberia Airlines and Madrid Municipality. 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. Motorola has an extensive TETRA client base in Europe and beyond. Motorola supplied the world's first commercial TETRA system for Gardermoen Airport in Norway and will be supplying systems to British Telecom, Copenhagen Metro, The Basque Country, Singapore Mass Rapid Transit Singapore Mass Rapid Transit may refer to:
OTE abbr (Comm) (= on-target earnings) → Einkommensziel nt Greece, Polish Police, Croatian Ministry of Interior, C2000 in The Netherlands and three contracts with Dolphin Telecom including a total of 550,000 TETRA handsets and a nationwide infrastructure in Germany. Motorola has also supplied TETRA trial systems in Jersey, Germany and Hungary. Motorola - more information on TETRA http://www.motorola.com/tetra Motorola NEW Internet Media Centre http://mediacentre.motorola.com/ |
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