Telefonica Moviles.TELEFONICA MOVILES, a Mexican unit of Spain's Telefonica, will invest US$1.5 billion in Mexico by 2005 to develop the country's telecommunications sector. The Mexican mobile company also signed an agreement with Finnish telecommunications conglomerate conglomerate, in business conglomerate, corporation whose asset growth, often very rapid, comes largely through the acquisition of, or merger with, other firms whose products are largely unrelated to each other or to that of the parent company. Nokia to supply at least 50% of the radio-access system for its GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) A digital cellular phone technology based on TDMA that is the predominant system in Europe, but also used worldwide. Developed in the 1980s, GSM was first deployed in seven European countries in 1992. network in Mexico. Nokia will also supply the GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) The first high-speed digital data service provided by cellular carriers that used the GSM technology. GPRS added a packet-switched channel to GSM, which uses dedicated, circuit-switched channels for voice conversations. network. |
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