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To: bananawind who wrote (9554)	4/1/1998 11:36:00 AM
From: bananawind	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Brazil info... (sorry for all the "="'s, it comes over that way from newspage) The tender for digital telecoms equipment April 1, 1998 Brazil - SABI via NewsEdge Corporation : The migration from analogic to digital cellular telephone (Band A)= technology has triggered a war of the major players to win the Brazilian= telecoms equipment market looking for the current 4mil cellular lines in= Brazil of which only 100,000 digital lines. One of the issues at stake is= the adoption of CDMA or TDMA technology, a move to be defined by the= tenders for additional terminals being held by Telerj and Telesp. BCP= consortium that initially invested R$300mil to operate cellular services= in Band B at the Grand Sao Paulo area has adopted TDMA technology and= selected Nortel as its supplier. BSE consortium that is investing R$450mil= over the next three years to operates Band B services at area 10 (Piaui,= Alagoas, Ceara, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraiba, and Pernambuco) and = Americel that is investing R$750mil over the next three years and is= operating cellular services in in area 7 (Brasilia, Goias, Tocantins, Mato= Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Rondonia, Acre) has also adopted the same= technology and supplier. Several operators of Band A services, all= subsidiaries of Telebras slated for privatization in 1998, are keen to= CMDA technology when shifting to digital. One of them is Telebahia, that = is being supplied by NEC, through a R$16mil contract for 25,000 digital= terminals until October, and additional 35,000 until end 1998. Maxitel= consortium, that won the license for Band B services in area 9 (Bahia,= Sergipe states) is to use TDMA technology and is investing R$200mil -0- Source: O Estado de Sao Paulo Page: b3 Date: March 28, 1998 Country: Brazil Product: Telecommunications/Telecommunications Equipment/Telephone= Communications Company: NEC ; BCP ; Telerj ; Telebras Event: Technology; Facilities & Equipment SABI (South American Business Information)