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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (14564)	4/27/2000 3:24:00 PM
From: slacker711	Respond to of 21876

I noticed there was no notice of new contract with Verizon in your comments about wireless. Lucent and Verizon will be in trials for 1xrtt in June.... Message 13507466 Verizon Wireless, a wireless provider recently formed by the combination of the U.S. wireless businesses of Bell Atlantic Corp. and Vodafone AirTouch plc, will implement the technology as part of a pilot test bed beginning in June. "This demonstration is proof that CDMA provides the most cost-efficient, graceful evolution to 3G services, exceeding all other competing digital standards," said Bill Stone, executive director network planning for Verizon Wireless. "We look forward to conducting field trials this summer with Lucent, device manufacturers and content providers. Our plan is to make these data access speeds available to customers sometime next year." In addition to proving data transmission rates that are nearly ten-fold greater than what is available on North American mobile networks today, the Lucent-QUALCOMM collaboration provides wireless network operators with a solution that effectively doubles the voice capacity of their Lucent-supplied networks. The network upgrades involve only circuit card replacements and a software upgrade without the need for new base stations. The key improvement in achieving this industry milestone is made possible by using QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies' CSM5000(TM) Cell Station Modem (CSM(TM)) in Lucent FlexentTM base stations. The new CSM5000 chip and system software speeds up digital signal processing and supports the new 3G 1x Physical Layer standard while preserving existing radio frequency (RF) components.