SWINDON, England-Motorola Inc. received a $122 million contract from Pele-Phone Communications to supply and deploy infrastructure equipment to expand Pele-Phone’s Code Division Multiple Access digital cellular network.
The new infrastructure will expand Pele-Phone’s CDMA digital network in Israel, which currently supports 500,000 subscribers, to handle more than 1 million subscribers. According to Motorola the additional equipment, to be installed by the company’s Network Solutions Sector, will improve coverage and performance throughout the network.
“The expanded capacity of the CDMA network transforms Pele-Phone into the only cellular operator in Israel with the ability to take on hundreds of thousands of new subscribers,” said Yigal Bar-Yossef, chief executive officer of Pele-Phone. “Pele-Phone intends to take advantage of this strategic and technological benefit as we augment our customer base and offerings already in the year 2000.”
Pele-Phone, the first cellular telephone operator in Israel, is jointly owned by Israel’s Telecommunications Corp. and Motorola. The new infrastructure equipment is scheduled to be installed by June.
