Telcel Bellsouth Awards Lucent Technologies Contract To Deploy 3G CDMA2000 Wireless Network in Venezuela

date: May 23, 2002

Telcel BellSouth and Lucent Technologies announced a three-year agreement to continue building a 3G CDMA2000 wireless network in Venezuela. The initial deployment of this network began in Caracas and will expand to other areas of the country.

The 3G network, based on CDMA2000 1X technology, can double voice capacity and will enable Telcel BellSouth to offer new high-speed data services such as wireless e-mail and Web access at speeds of up to 153kbps, a nearly 10-fold increase from what is currently available. In addition, Lucent may supply CDMA2000 1xEV-DO equipment in the future, enabling Telcel BellSouth to then provide data speeds of up to 2.4Mbps. CDMA2000 will deliver these improvements in Telcel's existing radio frequency spectrum.

"We are looking forward to providing our customers with new high-speed 3G data services," said Enrique Garcia, president of Telcel.

Lucent will upgrade Telcel's Lucent CDMA base stations with CDMA2000 1X channel cards and software and provide a packet data platform to prepare the Telcel BellSouth network for commercial 3G services. Lucent Flexent Modular Cell 3.0 base stations, a recently introduced CDMA product, and mobile switching centers will also be supplied to help Telcel BellSouth expand its network. Lucent Worldwide Services will provide installation and engineering services for Telcel's 3G network. Lucent is the primary provider of network infrastructure for Telcel's network, having built wireless networks based on CDMA in various regions and cities in Venezuela including the initial CDMA2000 1X system in Caracas.

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