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To: straight life who wrote (20902)	1/6/1999 8:09:00 PM
From: SKIP PAUL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 6, 1999-- Digital Cellular Operators Can Offer More Flexible Service to Customers Of Enhanced Variable Rate Coder Networks Motorola, Inc.'s Network Solutions Sector (NSS) announced today it is offering its CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) operators the ability to expand their customers' digital cellular roaming capabilities with the introduction of enhanced system software. With Motorola NSS' Service Option Negotiation solution, customers who currently enjoy the benefits of state-of-the-art 8K EVRC (Enhanced Variable Rate Coder) call quality can now take their digital features with them when they roam throughout Motorola NSS-based networks. Operators with CDMA equipment supplied by Motorola NSS, or by a combination of Motorola and other vendors, can take advantage of this solution to provide their EVRC customers seamless digital coverage throughout all of their markets. To date, Motorola NSS is the only cellular network vendor to offer Service Option Negotiation to address the EVRC roaming issue. Service Option Negotiation, an industry standard protocol, sets up the commands by which a cellular base station communicates with the cellular handsets throughout a system. When a caller enters into a network's coverage area, the cellular handset must "speak the same language" as the network in question. In the cellular industry, the most recent advance in digital voice encoder technology is EVRC, a feature which provides landline-quality voice transmission, superior capacity gains and complete background noise suppression. But until now, customers on EVRC networks have been unable to take advantage of these features when roaming outside of their home system and into incompatible digital networks - networks which do not incorporate EVRC vocoders. Lack of Service Option Negotiation causes EVRC digital calls to be converted to analog systems or dropped entirely because the handsets do not speak the same language as the non-EVRC network. Motorola NSS' solution requires no hardware upgrades to the CDMA network or software upgrades to customers' digital cellular handsets. Additionally, it provides a graceful migration path both to future vocoder technologies and to next generation digital standards. The solution is commercially available today. Operators can receive the Service Option Negotiation with Motorola NSS' standard CDMA software offering. "As the leader in value-based software development, we strive to provide cellular operators and service providers with software that increases their revenue base by augmenting their customers' minutes-of-use," said John Cipolla, vice president and general manager of Motorola NSS' CDMA Systems Division. "We are enthusiastic about our interoperability solutions, such as Service Option Negotiation, and hope other infrastructure vendors will take a similar approach." In a report issued last month by the Cahners In-Stat Group, a leading wireless industry research and consulting firm, Motorola NSS was cited as the leading international provider of commercial CDMA digital cellular networks. The analysis of cellular, PCS and wireless local loop markets shows Motorola NSS with a total of 31 commercial system awards internationally. Others include Lucent with 17 awards; Qualcomm, 16; Nortel, 10; and Samsung, four. Motorola NSS combines the operations of the former cellular infrastructure group and iDEN organizations and is responsible for manufacturing, sales and integration of Motorola's cellular infrastructure and iDEN cellular/two-way radio products. NSS is a multi-billion dollar business with more than 16,000 employees. Headquartered in Arlington Heights, Illinois, NSS has major engineering, marketing and manufacturing facilities in northern Illinois, Texas, Arizona, Florida, the United Kingdom, Israel, Brazil, China/Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan. Motorola, Inc. is a global leader in advanced electronic systems and services. Sales in 1997 were $29.8 billion. For further information on Motorola, please visit the web site at motorola.com.