SWINDON, England-Motorola Inc. and T-Mobil, Germany’s leading Global Standard for Mobile communications network operator, have signed a multimillion dollar contract to bring high-speed data service availability to all subscribers on T-Mobil’s T-D1 network.
Motorola has supplied T-Mobil’s GSM system solutions since 1993, with the first live General Packet Radio Service call in Germany made on the T-Mobil network using Motorola’s GPRS solution in November of last year.
“GPRS is the new technology for the new millennium, enabling the true mobility of both voice and data capability over wireless networks,” said Klaus Hummel, director of technology at T-Mobil. “With GPRS, we will offer data transfer rates to our customers from the summer at almost ISDN level. Thus we will start a new era of mobile data communications.”
The new contract calls for Motorola to implement a total GPRS network solution, including the serving GPRS support node and gateway GPRS support node by this summer.
“Moving from voice to data over GSM is the next key step for innovative network operators like T-Mobil looking to maximize service to their customers,” said Jeff Gordon, vice president and general manager for Motorola NSS in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
