To: bananawind who wrote (11729 ) 6/23/1998 4:25:00 PM From: bananawind Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 152472
New Nortel (Northern Telecom) CDMA Base Station Allows Wireless Operators To Easily Add Coverage, Capacity SINGAPORE, June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Wireless service providers face a number of challenges to running successful and profitable networks, including extension of coverage in rural areas and along highways, and capacity and coverage enhancements in urban and metropolitan areas. A new Nortel (Northern Telecom) (NYSE: NT - news; TSE: NTL - news) CDMA base station introduced today at the third annual CDMA World Congress addresses these challenges. The latest addition to Nortel's comprehensive CDMA portfolio, the Nortel CDMA Minicell allows wireless operators to tailor their networks to keep pace with the needs of an ever-growing subscriber base while keeping network expansion costs under control. Offering transmit power among the highest available today, it offers a large cell radius for rural and highway applications, reducing the number of cell sites required to provide coverage in a given area. For in-building and high traffic needs, its unique software control feature allows operators to reduce power output. With a modular design that connects the digital enclosure and the radio module via fiber, the Nortel CDMA Minicell enables the radios to be located closer to the antennas. This virtually eliminates signal loss, and provides unparalleled flexibility to address complex siting issues with deployment options such as poles, walls, closets and basements. Nortel CDMA digital wireless networks are in service or under construction in more than 80 cities around the world, serving more than a million subscribers. Nortel has shipped more than 5,000 CDMA base stations in 18 months. SOURCE: Northern Telecom Limited