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To: Kent Rattey who wrote (78598)	8/15/2000 9:50:18 AM
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biz.yahoo.com Tuesday August 15, 9:04 am Eastern Time Press Release SOURCE: Lucent Technologies Lucent Technologies and NeoPoint Complete Wireless High-Speed 153 Kbps Data Call Compliant With 3rd Generation Cdma Standard MURRAY HILL, N.J., Aug. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU - news) and NeoPoint Inc., a market leader in developing award-winning smartphones and smart information services, today announced that their collaboration on next-generation (3G) wireless technology has yielded the first successful data call with a commercial handset using Lucent's wireless infrastructure. The next generation technology, called 3G CDMA 1X technology, is an enhancement to the CDMA (code division multiple access) wireless format, demonstrating a peak transmission rate of 153 kilobits per second (kbps), which is 10 times faster than currently available. This faster data rate will give mobile phone users the ability to use their handsets to access a range of high-speed, data-rich applications that will include Web browsing, streaming video, Web teleconferencing and other new, emerging data applications. This compares to current North American wireless data networking speeds ranging from 9.6 kilobits per second (kbps) to 14.4 kbps, adequate for text based messages and information on mobile phones. ``Lucent Technologies is extending its leadership role in developing the alliances necessary to deliver the mobile Internet to the mass market,'' said Holly Newman, product management director for Lucent's wireless networks business. ``This demonstration paves the way to ensuring the early availability of NeoPoint's handsets, enabling network operators to take full advantage of Lucent's next generation high-speed wireless services.'' ``NeoPoint is proud to continue working with Lucent to offer corporate users and consumers the ability to enjoy the benefits of high-speed data services and applications enabled by 3G CDMA 1X technology,'' said Kye Cheung, director of product and program management at NeoPoint. ``We look forward to helping carriers rapidly launch high-speed mobile Web browsing and other advanced wireless data services using our state-of-the art smartphones.'' Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., USA, designs and delivers the systems, software, silicon and services for next-generation communications networks for service providers and enterprises. Backed by the research and development of Bell Labs, Lucent focuses on high-growth areas such as broadband and mobile Internet infrastructure; communications software; communications semiconductors and optoelectronics; Web-based enterprise solutions that link private and public networks; and professional network design and consulting services. For more information on Lucent Technologies, visit its Web site at lucent.com. NeoPoint, Inc. is a market leader in developing state-of-the-art smartphones and information services that optimize the way wireless users access the people and information resources essential to them. NeoPoint's first smartphone, the NP 1000, can be purchased for $199.99 (data cable and software included) via neopoint.com and also at Sprint PCS retail locations in the United States. NeoPoint's myAladdin.com smart service is designed to provide consumers with comprehensive location-based intelligent information, when and where they want it. In addition to its consumer products and information services, the firm's Systems Engineering group provides sophisticated RF engineering services and analytical tools to leading wireless equipment vendors, carriers and infrastructure manufacturers worldwide. Based in La Jolla, Calif., NeoPoint is a privately held company that also operates offices in Seoul, Korea and San Jose, Calif. For more information, visit the NeoPoint Web site at neopoint.com. SOURCE: Lucent Technologies