Lucent makes cdma2000 products commercially available

MURRAY HILL, N.J.—Lucent Technologies Inc. said it is the first vendor in North America and one of the first worldwide to make its third-generation cdma2000 equipment and software available for commercial launch.
“Mobile operators that upgrade their current-generation networks to cdma2000 will have the capability to double their network’s voice capacity and increase data-transmission speeds nearly ten times,” said Lucent in a statement.