Motorola and NII Holdings, Inc. Announce Commercial Launch of Melody, Motorola's Next-Generation iDEN(R) Network
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Wednesday September 24, 11:24 am ET
New core design reduces CAPEX and OPEX costs by offering scalable growth capability
SANTIAGO, Chile, Sept. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) and NII Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: NIHD), one of the world's leading providers of fully integrated mobile communication services designed to meet the needs of customers, today announced the commercial launch of Melody, Motorola's next-generation iDEN dispatch and telephone interconnect core switching platform in order to provide enhanced service to Nextel's clients in Chile. NII Holdings is the preferred wireless provider among Latin America's high-value customers, offering a differentiated communication solution that integrates high quality push-to-talk (PTT) and customer-demanded data services in select Latin American markets.
The new Melody platform lets push-to-talk and telephone interconnect users roam and seamlessly communicate with other iDEN subscribers in four NII Holdings markets -- Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Peru -- as well as with iDEN subscribers in the United States. The Melody switching core platform also has the ability to elegantly scale up in capacity over time to serve several million dispatch and interconnect subscribers and to expand to more than 1,000 cell sites. |
