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To: 2brasil who wrote (2928)11/3/1999 5:31:00 PM
From: Cooters  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 13582
 
<<Latin Americans find answer in cell
phones>>

I was in Rio for a week in August. I found cell phones to be very common, from young girls on the beach to the taxi drivers. Due to very poor wireline service, most Cariocas(residents of Rio) used a cell phone for local service.

Cooters



To: 2brasil who wrote (2928)11/3/1999 11:18:00 PM
From: CDMQ  Respond to of 13582
 
Bruce,
You are in touch with the Brazillian market.
They seem to be having some connection problems.
Maybe you have some insight? buzz.bazooka.se
GREAT DAY!!!
Sorry Ramsey, I couldn't resist!



To: 2brasil who wrote (2928)11/4/1999 4:29:00 AM
From: brian h  Respond to of 13582
 
Bruce and all,

What about this news. Bell South - Another believer on our CDMA world. By the way, I read some news that one major Taiwanese notebook manufacturer see its CDMA wireless telcom. business as its next major business. It will start to make CDMA phones next year. I guess that explains why Q wants to get out of handset business. More ASICs sales with huge spreading on phones productions through low cost phone manufacturers. The company is not ACER which paid royalty to Q a while ago. How about an Q ASIC chip on every notebook that comes out from this company's notebook computers. An OEM manufacturer for DELL notebooks.

BellSouth's Compaa de Radiocomunicaciones Miles S.A. and Lucent Technologies sign contract for CDMA wireless network in Argentina

Atlanta, GA, November 3, 1999
-- Compaa de Radiocomunicaciones Miles S.A., a subsidiary of Atlanta-based BellSouth-which provides communications services in Argentina under the brand Movicom/BellSouth-and Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU) 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.

Brian H.