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ZTE chosen by MiPhone to supply CDMA2000 upgrade
June 21, 2006
Digital Jamaica (ODJ), a wholly owned subsidiary of Oceanic Digital Communications (ODC), a New York-based telecommunications company, operating locally in Jamaica under the "MiPhone" brand name, and ZTE Corporation jointly announced that MiPhone has selected ZTE to upgrade MiPhone's existing CDMA2000 network.
As part of the upgrade, ZTE USA will supply ALL-IP CDMA2000 EV-DO and CDMA2000 1x voice and data network equipment, base station subsystems (BSS), and core network equipment, along with ZTE's innovative CDMA2000-based GoTa (Global Open Trunking Architecture) push-to-talk network, and its CDMA2000 1X voice and data handsets, GoTa handsets, and EV-DO data cards.
Selecting ZTE will allow MiPhone, the exclusive CDMA operator in Jamaica, to provide new services to its customers with ZTE's GoTa capabilities and high-performance EV-DO wireless broadband data services.
"ZTE has provided us with a proven and innovative high-performance end-to-end solution that we are very excited about," said Craig McBurnett, MiPhone chief executive officer. "Not only have we chosen a supplier who can offer us the state-of-art EV-DO and push-to-talk solutions we need, but we have found a U.S.-based organization that is a successful global CDMA2000 company to provide the strong local support we require."
MiPhone launched its commercial wireless service in November 2001 and currently provides island-wide services to over 100,000 subscribers. In addition, MiPhone provides international roaming services for customers of Sprint-Nextel, Verizon Wireless, Alltel, Telus, Bell Canada, and IUSACELL.
"We are excited to be working with one of the Caribbean's leading CDMA2000 operators as it represents not only a significant step for ZTE USA, but also the beginning of what we believe will be a long and successful relationship with MiPhone and Oceanic Digital Communications," stated Jack Yang, ZTE USA's executive vice president of sales and marketing.
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