Bell South and Lucent CDMA contract for Argentina....
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BellSouth's Compania de Radiocomunicaciones Moviles S.A. and Lucent
Technologies sign contract for CDMA wireless network in Argentina
ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--November 3, 1999--Compania de
Radiocomunicaciones Moviles S.A., a subsidiary of Atlanta-based BellSouth -- which
provides communications services in Argentina under the brand Movicom/BellSouth --
and Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU - news) have signed a three-year
contract to deploy a wireless network in Argentina.
Movicom/BellSouth - which is 65 percent owned by BellSouth -- plans to build a
CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) wireless network throughout the interior
of Argentina. The new network will allow Movicom/BellSouth, which already provides
wireless communications service in metropolitan Buenos Aires, to extend
service to the rest of Argentina. The network will be based on Flexent(TM), Lucent's
wireless network architecture, and is expected to include several hundred
Lucent cell sites and Lucent's 5ESS-2000® Switches.
''Movicom/BellSouth is already the market leader for wireless telephony in Buenos
Aires. This new network will extend our leadership in the mobile telephony
market throughout Argentina while also providing a platform for new services such as
long distance,'' said Mauricio Wior, president of Movicom/BellSouth and
executive vice president of BellSouth International for Southern Cone Latin America.
''The Flexent network is our next-generation architecture that will protect
Movicom/BellSouth's investment into the next century,'' said Carole Spurrier, vice
president - North America for Lucent Technologies. ''Our CDMA wireless network
technology will support the greater capacity and improved data rates required
to meet the demands of Movicom/BellSouth's customers.''
Lucent has built more than 160 CDMA networks around the world - including systems
in Canada, China, Thailand, South Korea, the Philippines and Indonesia - for
26 different customers.
In the Caribbean and Latin America regions, Lucent is building CDMA networks in
Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Venezuela, Guatemala, El Salvador, Puerto Rico and
the Dominican Republic. In North America, Lucent has installed more than half the
CDMA systems in the United States, covering 80 percent of the population.
More than 16 million wireless calls per day travel over Lucent's CDMA wireless
network systems.
BellSouth is a $25 billion communications services company. It provides
telecommunications, wireless communications, cable and digital TV, directory
advertising
and publishing, and Internet and data services to nearly 36 million customers in 19
countries worldwide. More information on BellSouth is available at
bellsouth.com.
Lucent Technologies designs, builds and delivers a wide range of public and private
networks, communications systems and software, business telephone systems
and microelectronics components. Bell Labs is the research and development arm for
the company. More information about Lucent Technologies, headquartered in
Murray Hill, N.J., is available on its web site at lucent.com. |
