Joint Venture Portugal Telecom/Telefonica Moviles Deploying CDMA 1XRTT Network In Three Regions in Brazil Using Motorola Infrastructure
Wednesday January 29, 6:00 am ET
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill., Jan. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Joint Venture Portugal Telecom/Telefonica Moviles, the leading wireless communications company in Brazil, has started to deploy its new generation voice and packet data network in the regions of Campinas, Indaiatuba in the state of Sao Paulo and Curitiba, in the state of Parana, using Motorola's 1XRTT advanced infrastructure equipment.
It is Motorola's first deployment of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) 2000 1X equipment in Latin America. Motorola signed the contract for this advanced network in June 2001. Deployment of the 1X network has begun and is scheduled to be completed in February 2003.
"With this CDMA 1X system, we are reinforcing our position as the first carrier to invest in this technology in Brazil and South America in order to broaden the offer of data services to our current and future subscribers," said Francisco Padinha, chief executive officer of the joint venture. Subscribers currently generate data traffic in excess of 50 gigabytes per month, "resulting in an increase in high-speed data revenues of 400 percent. over the last six months," said Padinha. "The pressure from corporate clients, who are requesting increased coverage and more services and applications, is the main reason for our expansion of these services. In addition, the expansion solves any potential problems with voice capacity for the next few years in these regions," said Padinha. "With this expansion to our existing coverage in the cities of Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Vitoria, we are giving our corporate customer the experience of the true mobile office with great access speed," he continued.
CDMA 2000 1X technology enables Internet access and other data services at speeds up to 144 kilobits per second, and increases the voice capacity on the joint venture's existing network by more than 1.5 times.
"It is a source of great pride for us to be working with the joint venture, participating in a very important chapter in the history of telecommunications in the country," said Jose Figueroa, corporate vice president and general manager for the Latin America and Caribbean Region for Motorola's Global Telecom Solutions Sector. "This deployment represents an important milestone in cellular telephony in Brazil because we are helping to make things smarter and life better for the environments in which people live, work and play," said Figueroa.
Motorola's CDMA2000 1X architecture builds upon existing 2G or 2.5G networks by adding packet based network elements. For the joint venture network, these network elements include the access node from Motorola's strategic alliance partner Cisco Systems, Inc. that enables the radio access network to be Internet Protocol (IP) capable. With Cisco's access node, Motorola's CDMA 2000 1X radio network offers a standards compliant solution that offers incremental features such as enhanced availability and scalability that help address the most critical needs of mobile wireless operators.
Motorola is supplying the joint venture with its SC(TM) 4812T radio base transceiver stations, the most modern and efficient CDMA equipment produced by Motorola. The equipment is being manufactured at Motorola's Jaguariuna's Industrial and Technological campus in the state of Sao Paulo.
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