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To: waitwatchwander who wrote (30249)	12/20/2002 10:59:24 AM
From: Eric L	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196650

re: Columbia Technology Flips * BellSouth Columbia (1.3 million subs) - TDMA to 1xRTT * América Móvil Comcel (2.57 million subs) - TDMA to GSM Colombia is the only market among the eight largest in the region where CDMA and GSM are not [currently] present. >> Comcel, BellSouth Announce Upgrade Plans For Colombian Networks Buenos Aires Argentina Global Wireless Dec. 19, 2002 The two major cell-phone operators in Colombia, which operate on TDMA technology, announced they are migrating their networks to different technologies. In the case of BellSouth, the company will offer services over CDMA 1xRTT, supplied by Ericsson, as of the first quarter of the coming year, while Comcel, a subsidiary of América Móvil, plans to move toward GSM technology during 2003. Celcaribe, majority owned by Millicom, which operates exclusively in the Atlantic Coast region, an area where Comcel does not offer service, announced last week the company is for sale. Many analysts said Comcel could purchase and update Celcaribe’s TDMA network to GSM as well as to compete on a national level with BellSouth and Colombia Móvil, the cell-phone operator which is likely to take part in the country’s upcoming personal communications services (PCS) auction. According to a Pyramid Research report conducted by Carlos Rodriguez and Daniel Torras: “Colombia is the only market among the eight largest in the region where CDMA and GSM are not present and the only market where 2.5G services will be unavailable by year-end 2002.” As of 30 September, Colombia had 4.09 million mobile telephone customers, of which Comcel had 2.57 million, BellSouth 1.3 million and Celcaribe 220,000. Meanwhile, fixed telephony had 7.37 million customers at the end of the first half of the year. << - Eric -