Motorola's Global Telecom Solutions Sector (GTSS), one of the
world's leading suppliers of Global System for Mobile
Communications (GSM) systems, today announced the signing of four
contracts totaling $100.8 million to expand and upgrade GSM
networks for China Mobile Communications Corporation (China
Mobile), China's largest telecom operator.

Under the terms of the contracts, Motorola will deploy its
Horizonsystems GSM infrastructure solution to expand China
Mobile's GSM 900 and 1800 networks in the provinces of Hubei,
Yunnan and the cities of Beijing and Tianjin. Also as a part of
the contracts, Motorola will install its cellular equipment to
replace the existing GSM networks in two cities of Yunnan and one
city of Hubei. The network expansions will increase subscriber
capacity by 1.2 million users upon its completion scheduled by the
end of 2002.

Besides supplying infrastructure equipment, Motorola's GTSS will
also provide value-added professional engineering services
including MotoVip and NSP (Network Support Program), and enabling
technologies such as LBS (Location Based Services) to the
expansion projects in Hubei, Yunnan and Beijing.

"These new contracts are further evidence of our strong
partnership with China Mobile, as well as our continued commitment
to growing Motorola's share of the China market," Ruey Bin Kao,
Motorola's vice president and general manager of GTSS's China
Operations. "Our new initiatives in network supporting program and
valued added services (MotoVip) will help operators improve the
network availability and quality while our enabling technologies
such as LBS will help them increase their average revenue per user
and generate revenue quickly."

"We are confident that these higher level of services will enhance
customer satisfaction and build an annuity service revenue stream
centered on traditional support services," Kao added.

 

The patent EP 297616 relates to and has a broad applicability to, amongst other things, multimode GSM and CDMA handset terminals, ie handsets capable of accessing more than one type of network.

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