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To: gdichaz who wrote (17242)	10/27/1998 9:15:00 AM
From: w2j2	Respond to of 152472

SAO PAULO, Brazil--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 27, 1998--Lucent Technologies today announced that it has been selected by the cellular companies owned by the Telefonica Group in Brazil to build wireless networks based on code division multiple access (CDMA) in the states of Rio de Janeiro and Sergipe in Brazil. The initial phase of the project calls for the installation of a new CDMA network which will have the capacity to serve one million subscribers in the metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro. The award is subject to negotiation of final terms and conditions. Lucent Technologies will provide its flagship 5ESS(R) AnyMedia(tm) switching platform, and Autoplex(R) System 1000 Series II cell sites, as well as technical expertise, professional and support services. The digital cell sites for this project will be manufactured at the Lucent manufacturing facility in Campinas, Brazil. "We are extremely pleased to have been selected as Telefonica's technology supplier in this important project," said Virgilio Freire, president of Lucent Technologies in Brazil. "We are particularly proud that most of the products used for this project will be manufactured here in Brazil." Lucent's 5ESS(R) AnyMedia(tm) Switch is a large-scale, software-based digital switching system that delivers any media from one platform. This capability allows service providers to offer any service - local, long distance, voice, data, or video - over any network - wireless or wireline. The switch is the most reliable on the market today according to analysis of the U.S.-based Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reports of key performance categories. The 5ESS Switch currently serves more than 104 million lines and 48 million trunks from four thousand host switches in more than 50 countries worldwide. The Autoplex System 1000 Series II platform uses CDMA, a digital wireless technology based on the IS-95 air interface. This technology provides increased call capacity and enhanced call quality that is comparable to landline service. CDMA reduces the static and cross-talk sometimes heard on analog systems, and provides a "soft hand-off" capability that makes call hand-offs between cell sites and mobile switching centers (MSCs) virtually unnoticeable to customers. Lucent Technologies is a leading provider of wireless infrastructure equipment utilizing all of the interfaces available in the market today - AMPS, TDMA, CDMA and GSM. An industry leader in CDMA technology, Lucent has more than 100 CDMA networks either in commercial operation or under construction for 25 network operators worldwide. In the Caribbean and Latin America region, Lucent Technologies has won contracts to build CDMA networks in Mexico, Venezuela, El Salvador, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Guadeloupe. In North America, Lucent is the leading provider of CDMA infrastructure equipment for the largest PCS network providers - PrimeCo Personal Communications, Sprint PCS and others - and for cellular carriers such as GTE, AirTouch and Bell Atlantic Mobile. Telefonica International, S.A. (TISA) is the subsidiary of Spain's Grupo Telefonica which handles the company's international commercial strategy, identifying business opportunities and executing investment projects in Latin America and other markets. At the end of June 1998, Telefonica International managed more than 12 million fixed telephone lines, 2.5 million cellular subscribers, and two million cable TV customers in Latin America. TISA, which in 1997 had revenues of US$2.9 billion, has investments in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Puerto Rico, Venezuela and Portugal. The Brazilian Telebras system was privatized in July of this year. Telefonica Internacional, S.A. won two wireless regions covering the states of Rio de Janeiro and Espirito Santo - which is the second largest wireless region in the country - as well as the region for the states of Bahia and Sergipe. Telerj Celular is the subsidiary of Telefonica Internacional for the wireless region in Rio de Janeiro.