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Lucent sees growing momentum for 3G
December 4, 2002
Speaking at ITU Telecom Asia 2002 in Hong Kong, Scott Erickson,
senior vice president of Mobility Solutions at Lucent Technologies,
said Lucent expects that spread spectrum technology, the basis of
both the CDMA2000 and UMTS 3G wireless standards, will make up 75%
of the global mobility market by 2005, up from 30% this year. Erickson
also said that telecom operators in Asia Pacific are among those
in the forefront of the worldwide migration to 3G networks.
Additionally, several recent reports from leading industry research
firms indicate that spread-spectrum technologies (including CDMA2000
1X, CDMA2000 1X EV, and UMTS/Wideband CDMA) will account for more
than half of all new wireless subscribers worldwide by 2005, and
that adoption of spread spectrum will continue to accelerate through
2007.
Lucent's recent 3G CDMA contracts with leading Asia Pacific service
providers will significantly enhance the mobile services available
to subscribers in four key markets, namely China, India, Korea and
New Zealand.
China Unicom will deploy Lucent's CDMA 1X equipment under the second
phase of a CDMA wireless contract. Building on successful testing
and demonstrations of the CDMA 1X technology by the two partners,
the deployment will enable China Unicom to offer high-speed wireless
data services throughout an extensive service area in 10 provinces.
The CDMA 1X enhancements will also provide additional capacity of
about five million subscribers by January 2003.
KTF, a Korean wireless service provider, selected Lucent to upgrade
its 2G network in the Kyungsang province to CDMA2000 1X, doubling
voice capacity and enabling high-speed data services such as wireless
Internet access and video streaming at speeds of up to 153 kbps.
Lucent will provide KTF with 3G services by simply adding channel
cards and making software upgrades to hundreds of existing Lucent-supplied
base stations.
Reliance Infocom, a service provider in India, will roll out a
nationwide 3G CDMA2000 wireless network based on Lucent Flexent
base stations -- which support 3G CDMA2000 1X service - and mobile
switching centers. The five-year contract covers this equipment,
as well as design and consulting services, and installation and
maintenance support.
Tata Teleservices, India's private basic telephony service provider,
will also deploy Lucent's Flexent base stations and mobile switching
centers to create high-speed 3G CDMA2000 wireless networks in several
Indian states.
Telecom New Zealand has upgraded its CDMA network to create the
first 3G CDMA2000 1X wireless network in the Australia-New Zealand
region. Lucent has supplied CDMA2000 1X channel cards and software
to enhance existing Lucent-supplied base stations, along with software
upgrades for several mobile switching centers.
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