MANILA, Philippines-Lucent Technologies Inc. signed a contract with Pilipino Telephone Corp. to supply and install a Code Division Multiple Access network in the Philippines. Lucent values the contract at $23 million.
The network, which the company said will be operational in June, will cover the northern and southern areas of the island of Luzon. Lucent agreed to set up an overlay CDMA system on Piltel’s existing Advanced Mobile Phone Service network. Lucent will supply its 5ESS-2000 DCS switching system, Autoplex System 1000 and 33 cell sites.
