ATLANTA-Cellcom of Wisconsin selected Northern Telecom Inc. to supply Code Division Multiple Access cellular and personal communications services network infrastructure equipment and services under a five-year, $42 million supply agreement, announced Nortel.
The deal includes CDMA digital networks for seven F-band PCS markets in Wisconsin and Michigan, and CDMA digital overlays for existing analog cellular networks in Wisconsin. Nortel also plans to expand several of Cellcom’s other analog cellular networks.
Nortel said it will upgrade Cellcom’s DMS-MTX to a digital mobile switching system, as well as provide its DMS-100 wireless switching system, which allows operators to provide integrated wireline and wireless services from a single platform.
Cellcom plans to offer its customers one-stop shopping for local, long-distance, mobility, Internet, broadband and enterprise communications services, said Nortel.
“Convergence of fixed and mobile services is clearly an idea whose time has come,” said Matt Desch, president of wireless networks for Nortel. “Cellcom is getting a jump on the competition using an integrated wireless solution from Nortel.”
