BCP has 2 million subscribers but Telesp Cellular has been taking subscribers from BCP, if it stops investing in the network, it will lose more subscribers.
BCP -last November- had invited Nortel, Lucent, Qualcomm, Ericsson e Motorola to test 1XRTT. I July 2001 Ericsson had already tested GSM/GPRS.
On February 7th, VP of Operations informed that BCP had not yet decided which technology, CDMA or GSM it would overlay.
BCP will face problems with equipment vendors' financing.
By not paying the debt, it faces creditors coming for it total debt -USD1.6billion- all at once.
Additional facts:
TIM is planning building GSM in Sao Paulo, BCP's main market.
TIM plans will influence all the overlay decisions. Once
TIM kicks off its deployment of GSM all others will follow theirs whatever their technology of choice.
A Tele Centro-Oeste Celular (TCO) will start next April to test CDMA 1xRTT from Nortel (in 1,9 GHz) in Brasilia (DF) and Nokia's GSM/GPRS (in 1,8 GHz) in Goiânia (GO).
Telesp Celular already launched 1XRTT in Sao Paulo.
Telemar launched GPRS.
Nortel lobbies for CDMA. |
