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To: elmatador who wrote (44454)	1/9/2004 4:29:51 PM
From: brian h	Respond to of 74559

Elmat, Did you get some subcontracts for this one yet? Hope it is not too late for you. cellular-news.com Lucent wins Brazilian CDMA contract Brazil's VIVO and Lucent Technologies have signed an agreement to expand VIVO's CDMA2000 1X network. Under terms of the agreement, the 3G network expansion will cover São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and other regions in both states including the cities of Praia Grande (SP), Teresópolis (RJ) and the Lakes region (região dos Lagos, also in the state of Rio de Janeiro). "With the expansion of our 1X network, VIVO will increase its offerings of advanced services, such as voice and broadband data transmission, bringing more efficient and higher speed mobile services to our customers," said Javier Rodriguez Garcia, Technology and Networks vice president for VIVO. "This improves our network, increases the existing coverage and capacity, and enhances the availability of our high-speed data network for our corporate users' day to-day mobile activities. With this project, VIVO reinforces its leading position and commitment to continuously improve network quality and customer satisfaction." The network expansion will be completed in early 2004. Lucent will provide more than 500 base stations, primarily Flexent Modular Cell 4.0 base stations — part of the Bell Labs-developed OneBTS family of base stations, which support multiple spread-spectrum technologies including CDMA2000 1X, 1xEV-DO, 1xEV-DV and W-CDMA/UMTS — and new mobile switching centers. Lucent Worldwide Services (LWS) will provide network installation, deployment, maintenance, RF (radio frequency) optimization and consulting services. LWS will ensure the project's success and deliver exceptional network quality of service for VIVO's customers by leveraging its Professional Services experience as well as 3G network deployment methodologies, processes and tools from Bell Labs.