News from Brazil!
Courtesy of Jornal do Brazil
jb.com.br
and Alta Vista Babblefish
babelfish.altavista.digital.com
it appears that nationwide coverage of Brazil will be available as early as April 2000 (ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION G*USA??) and that user terminal distribution starts "in the next days" with "full commercial operation" by the end of this year. Three articles datelined 11-12 October from JdoB as translated by Babelfish follow:
"Cellular telephone saw satellite is launchn today in Telecom 99
He is being launchn today in the Europe the cellular telephone saw satellite of the
Globalstar. Through the system, a person in the south of the country or the Amazon
region can communicate without problems of geographic borders or complex
infrastructure. The presentation occurs in the Geneve Telecom 99.
The company informed that she will start to distribute the first devices qualified with the
new system, in Brazil, the next days. The forecast is of that until the end of the year it
has beginning the full commercial operation, but the total covering of the domestic
territory will only go to happen in the next year.
For this, the Globalstar counts on 52 satellites of low orbit, of which 40 already is in the
space. The total investments are evaluated in USS 2.5 billion, of the which USS 180
million in Brazil. The presentation of the telephone saw satellite was made by the
president of the Advice of the Globalstar, Bernard Schwartz, and for the world-wide
president of the company, Navarrese Anthony. The event counted on the presence of
the minister of the Communications, Pepper of the Fertile valley.
" Brazil will have assured its satelital total covering in April, when the third terrestrial
base (gateway), situated in the Amazônia, will be ready. according to president of the
Globalstar of Brazil, Peter Maisonnave, the tests carried through so far indicate that
Brazil is in advance in the cronograma.
Globalstar launchs cellular saw satellite
The Globalstar launchs today, in the Geneve Telecom99, its telephone directly saw on
satellite to a orbital satellite. The system of world-wide communication allows that a
person from the inward of the Rio Grande Do Sul or of the Amazônia, without problems
with geographic borders or complex infrastructure, another one is communicated with
any, independently of the place of the planet where they are.
The president of the Globalstar of Brazil, Peter Maisonnave, reaffirmed that the
company starts to distribute, in the next days, the first devices qualified with the new
system telephony in Brazil. The full commercial operation, in the country, however,
starts in the end of the year and the total covering of the country will be given from April
of year 2000.
Using itself of a constellation of 52 satellites of low orbit, of which 40 already are in the
space receiving and sending signs, the Globalstar system will demand investments of
the USS order 2.5 billion dollar. " the telephone saw satellite of the Globalstar, according
to managing of the company for the Europe and Asia, Franl Guinard, function as an
extension of the conventional cellular telephone, for the people who leave its area of
covering regularly ". He is ideal for a farmer, a doctor of same inward and for fishing or
navigators to the long one of the coast. Beyond the transmission the voice and the jobs
carriers and navigations for satellites, then the informáticas networks for transmissions
of data will add.
The networks of mobile telephones, now, are prepared for the conversion to thetransmission of pictures to the living creature. (E.L.)
multimedia. For this, the third generation of mobile technology UMTS will substitute,
from 2002, cellular system GSM used for the current ones. System UMTS more allows
to the transmission in a speed of 2 Mpbs, equal the 35 times than a quick modem of
computer and 200 times more than cellular a current one. This will allow the transmission of pictures to the living creature. (E.L.)
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