News
Issue #2002 - 39 (October 2002)
(Updated Oct. 15, 2002)

INFRASTRUCTURE, PRODUCTS & SERVICES

Motorola Ships 30,000th Third Generation-Capable Base Station

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill., Oct. 8, 2002 – Motorola’s Global Telecom Solution Sector (GTSS) has shipped more than 30,000 Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) 2000 1X third generation (3G) base stations.

“This is a great achievement for Motorola, “ said Barbara Benko, senior director of GTSS’s Wireless System Solutions Group. “Motorola’s SC™ series of 1X-ready base stations are truly scaleable, which can provide a wireless operator greater expansion flexibility within its network, whether it is with the channels, carriers, or base stations,” said Benko.

CDMA2000 1X technology nearly doubles the voice capacity on the network and is capable of transmitting data at a peak rate of up to 153 kilobits per second. Motorola has CDMA2000 1X contracts with 12 wireless operators worldwide.

Japan’s KDDI, whose 1X radio access network is 100 percent supplied by Motorola, has more than 2.65 million subscribers in the first six months of offering 3G CDMA2000 1X voice and data services. 

“KDDI’s success is an example of how Motorola is helping to accelerate the mobile data services market by offering services that stimulate demand, optimize network performance to maximize the return on operators’ current investments, and minimize the risks of moving to 3G through well-calculated investments in next generation networks,” said Benko.

Motorola, a worldwide leader in the development of CDMA and high-speed data networks, deployed the first commercial CDMA system in the world in Hong Kong in 1995 and has successfully deployed nationwide IS95-B high-speed packet data networks in Japan, Korea, Israel, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Peru.

The SC™ base transceiver station products support the world’s most advanced digital standards, provide high voice and data capacity and support both second generation (2G) and 3G CDMA standards.

For more information: http://www.motorola.com

MobileInfo Comments and Advisory:  30,000 base stations may not be a huge number when you consider need for hundreds of thousands of base stations we would have to install in USA, Europe and developed countries of Asia. But it is very respectable number. Remember, Motorola is only one (of course, a major supplier)  of CDMA technology. 

However, please beware that these 30,000 base stations or 3G-capable. It does not mean that they are actually using 3G spectrum and technology.  3G is NOT completely dead. Its gestation period has become much longer. 

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