Glenayre Technologies Inc. said it has received a contract from L’Office National des Postes et Telecommunications, the government-led telecommunications company in Morocco, to provide paging infrastructure equipment and installation services.
The equipment will be used for a paging system capable of supporting all existing high-speed paging protocols, Glenayre said. The paging network will initially serve 50,000 subscribers in the Moroccan cities of Rabat, Casablanca, Tangiers, Marrakech, Agadir, Tetouan, Fes and La’youne, and main highways and roadways connecting the cities, Glenayre said.
Glenayre said the contract, valued at $2.6 million, calls for a GL3000 paging terminal, 60 C-2000 controllers, 60 GL-T5310 125-watt transmitters and a GL3900 alphanumeric entry system.
The Moroccan company plans to offer paging service by March 1997 on the standard POCSAG format and eventually provide European Radio Messaging System protocol service.
ERMES is the standard adopted by many countries in neighboring Europe whose subscribers have roaming capabilities, Glenayre said.
