L.M. Ericsson received an expansion order from Tokyo Digital Phone to supply switching equipment, radio base stations and software for new functions in the TDP digital cellular network. Ericsson values the initial order at $140 million. Installation will begin in September. The infrastructure will in crease the number of radio channels in TDP’s existing network and increase coverage in new areas including Nagano, the 1988 Winter Olympics site. With this order, TDP will cover about 87 percent of the population in the Kanto areas, including Tokyo, Kanagawa and Yokohama.
TeleZone Corp. and AT&T Corp. are conducting trials of Code Division Multiple Access technology in Vancouver. TeleZone is testing the technology to prepare its PCS application for Industry Canada later this year. The trials are to test the ability of CDMA to prevent interference. To date, land-to-mobile, mobile-to-land and mobile-to-mobile call tests have revealed no voice degradation nor interference, said TeleZone. TeleZone sanctioned AT&T’s CDMA-based infrastructure equipment.
Qualcomm Inc. said it has received purchase orders from LG Information and Communications and Samsung Electronics Co. for Application Specific Integrated Circuits based on Qualcomm’s Code Division Multiple Access technology. Qualcomm valued the orders at $8 million. Korea Mobile Telecom selected LG, Goldstar’s telecommunications division, as its first CDMA cellular infrastructure supplier and plans to migrate its current analog system to a CDMA-based system. KMT intends to build its digital network with capacity for 600,000 users. Commercial operation is expected to begin in January 1996. Korean consortium Shinsegi Telecom has ordered CDMA-based infrastructure from Samsung Electronics. Samsung will use Qualcomm’s ASICs in Shinsegi’s deployment, expected to be fully operational by next April. Korea has selected CDMA as its national digital cellular standard.
Microwave Radio Corp., a subsidiary of California Microwave Inc., will provide interconnections for the personal communications system of Orange Personal Communications Services Ltd. in the United Kingdom. Microwave Radio has been providing support services and radios the last few years to Orange, the PCS division of U.K.-based Hutchison Telecom. Microwave radios are desirable for their quick installation, minimal upkeep and availability in a variety of frequencies, said California Microwave.
Comvik International AB, a 90 percent owned subsidiary of Millicom International Cellular S.A., entered a revenue sharing operation agreement with Vietnam Mobile Services Co. to operate a national cellular network in Vietnam, announced Industriforvaltnings AB Kinnevik, Millicom International Cellular’s chief shareholder. The 10-year agreement specifies Comvik International is entitled to 50 percent of net revenues in the first five years of operation and 40 percent thereafter. The companies plan rapid expansion of the existing Global System for Mobile communications-based network, operated by Vietnam Mobile Services.
