InterDigital Communictaions Corp. said it received an order for UltraPhone digital wireless local loop equipment valued at $17.6 million from the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. Installation in metropolitan Manila is scheduled to begin the second half of this year. The Myanma Posts and Telecommunications also ordered UltraPhone equipment from InterDigital. The Union of Myanma, formerly Burma, placed two orders for the wireless equipment in 1994. Myanma’s three orders exceed $3 million, InterDigital said.
In an order valued at $180 million, Ericsson Inc. will supply Mutiara Telecommunications Sdn Bhd infrastructure, switching equipment and mobile phones for Mutiara’s start of its digital personal communications network in peninsular Malaysia. The PCN system, which operates at 1800 MHz, will provide Mutiara a competitive edge in dense metropolitan areas, Ericsson said, where high density rather than range is an obstacle.
Motorola Inc.’s International Cellular Infrastructure Division signed a $7 million contract to deploy a fixed wireless phone system for five regions throughout Sri Lanka. The system will provide wireless telephone service to nearly 10,000 subscribers using Narrowband Advanced Mobile Phone Service technology and a digital switch. Motorola expects the system to be ready for commercial service in July.
Microwave Networks Inc. received a contract to deliver 2 GHz and 18 GHz microwave radios for connecting cell sites in the densely populated coastal region of Peru. The company values the contract at approximately $1 million. It is part of a $6 million cellular network expansion project by Telefonica del Peru.
U.S. Army personnel stationed in Haiti now are within instant reach of the Fort Monmouth, N.J., Army base, via cellular phones and laptop computers supplied by Bell Atlantic Mobile. Landline phone service is almost nonexistent on the island, according to the Army, which has been working with Bell Atlantic since last fall to set up AirBridge. AirBridge is a wireless voice and data communications service operating on the Army’s private cellular network.
Clearnet Communications Inc. entered into an agreement with Motorola Canada Ltd. to trial personal communications services based on Motorola’s Code Division Multiple Access technology platform. Clearnet plans to commence the testing and analysis of other PCS technologies in addition to CDMA shortly.
Nexus Telecommunications Systems Ltd. signed a licensing and operation agreement with a Latin American company now negotiating to license frequency. The contract requires the Latin company obtain the license within 12 months. If done, the first order will be for infrastructure equipment and end user devices for automatic vehicle location and two-way paging. Other possible applications include remote industrial monitoring, home security monitoring and automatic remote meter reading, all on the same network. The first phase of the contract is valued between $3.2 million and $7.9 million.
