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To: bananawind who wrote (11761)	6/24/1998 1:46:00 PM
From: bananawind	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 152472

Here's the Bangladesh story. Pretty interesting, particularly the achieve a country-wide rollout in the near future part. Also, don't miss the 3G reference at the end. This is what Gregg has been saying about the system operators' point of view. -JLF SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 24, 1998--Motorola, Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group (CIG) today announced it has been awarded an initial $21 million contract from Pacific Bangladesh Telecom Ltd.(PBTL) to install a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) digital cellular network in Dhaka and Chittagong, Bangladesh. The announcement was made during the 1998 CDMA World Congress, the industry's annual conclave being held here this week. In the city of Dhaka, the CDMA system will provide service to 50,000 subscribers and will operate in tandem with the 25,000 subscriber Motorola CIG supplied analog cellular network. In Chittagong, the existing analog cellular phone system will be replaced and as many as 50,000 subscribers will be served by the newly installed digital Motorola CIG CDMA cellular network. Mr. M. Morshed Khan, chairman, Pacific Group of companies said, ''CDMA, the state-of-the-art cellular technology, has become an effective and popular digital standard worldwide owing to its superior voice quality. Our intent has always been to bring the best services and technology to our customers. After a thorough evaluation, we selected Motorola CIG to deploy this cellular system for us. We are committed to offering quality products to our customers and Motorola CIG was the clear choice in meeting our product and technology objectives. Though the first phase of deployment will cover only Dhaka and Chittagong, we plan to go beyond these two cities and achieve a country-wide rollout in the near future.'' Motorola CIG will install its digital SC(TM)2450 base station product which supports multiple air interfaces for versatile modular growth. Installation of Motorola CIG's 800 MHz CDMA infrastructure equipment is scheduled to begin in July 1998. ''We are pleased to have been selected to install PBTL's CDMA cellular network in Bangladesh,'' said Anders Gustafsson, executive director and general manager of Motorola CIG's European Cellular Infrastructure Group, India. ''We believe CDMA is the right choice to help PBTL meet its customer objectives and we look forward to working with PBTL in deploying their CDMA network.'' Pacific Bangladesh Telecom Limited (PBTL) the pioneer in cellular technology in Bangladesh has been operating an analog cellular network in Bangladesh since 1993. PBTL has a program for expansion of services to cover all of Bangladesh and ultimately it has planned for international roaming through satellite. PBTL believes the ultimate goal of any wireless communications system is to have broadband data transmission capacity. The proposed narrowband CDMA system will provide a smoother migration to future Third Generation cellular broadband applications, PBTL said. Motorola CIG is a pioneer in CDMA, having launched the world's first commercial cdmaOne system in Hong Kong in 1995, the first commercial CDMA system in the U.S. and the first in Latin America in Peru. Currently, Motorola CIG has more than 100 agreements to provide commercial and trial CDMA equipment across the globe. Motorola, Inc. is one of the world's leading providers of wireless communications, semiconductors, and advanced electronic systems, components and services. Motorola's 1997 sales were $29.8 billion. For more information on Motorola CIG, please visit our web site at mot.com. Contact: Motorola CIG Jack Seller, 847/632-7248 qa4646@email.mot.com