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To: Steve Fancy who wrote (4357)	6/29/1998 10:11:00 AM
From: Paul Lee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4429

DSC Awarded Contract to Expand Wireless Coverage in Nigeria; Cellular Infrastructure Division to Supply Equipment for Deployment in Key Nigerian Cities DALLAS, June 29 /PRNewswire/ -- DSC Communications Corporation (Nasdaq: DIGI) announced today the signing of an expansion contract with Reliance Trade Corporation plc of London to provide Advanced Mobile Phone Service (AMPS) systems for fixed wireless application throughout Nigeria. The initial system, which DSC's Cellular Infrastructure Division announced in April, is now under deployment and will soon be operational in the greater Lagos, Nigeria, region. Both the original system and the larger expansion contract will be operated by EM-International Systems (EMIS) of Nigeria. Terms of the contract were not disclosed, and system deliveries are scheduled to begin immediately and continue to the end of the year. DSC will supply additional AMPS systems, which include a GlobalSwitch(R) MSC-24, eight GlobalSwitch MSC-8, and 24 GlobalCell II(R) base stations. All network components will be controlled by a centralized network management system located in Lagos. A centralized GlobalSwitch will be located in Lagos, connecting that network with the new expansion systems. The MSC-8 GlobalSwitch units will be each co-located with three GlobalCell Series II base stations in the principal cities of Kano, Kaduna, Abuja, Onitsha, Aba, Port Harcourt, Wam and Ibadan. These cities range in population from 177,000 to 847,000 and are located up to 1,100 km away from Lagos. All will be interconnected for both local and long distance traffic to Nitel, the national telephone service provider. Interconnection to the public switched telephone network (PSTN) will be via fiber-optics facility with C-7 trunks. Cell site interconnection will be via microwave links. Nigeria is the most populous sub-Sahara African nation. It is 972,768 square kilometers of diverse terrain and is host to approximately 105 million people. Currently Nigeria has only four telephone lines per 1,000 people (with 35 percent of those located in Lagos), and waiting time for telephone service is 3.5 years, according to the World Bank. When completed, the DSC network will provide fixed wireless service throughout most of the nation. "DSC has successfully demonstrated its responsiveness and the quality of its products," said Mr. Sunil Pathak, managing director of Reliance Trade Corporation. "The rapid progress on the initial system was most impressive, and we look forward to deploying the expansion systems with the same efficiency."