ZTE Wins Jamaican CDMA Upgrade Contract

China's ZTE has won a CDMA upgrade contract from Oceanic Digital Jamaica (ODJ), a New York-based telecommunications company, operating locally in Jamaica under the "MiPhone" brand name. As part of the upgrade, ZTE will supply CDMA2000 EV-DO and CDMA2000 1x voice and data network equipment, base station subsystems (BSS), and core network equipment, along with ZTE's CDMA2000-based GoTa (Global Open Trunking Architecture) push-to-talk network, and its CDMA2000 1X voice and data handsets, GoTa handsets, and EV-DO data cards.

MiPhone launched its commercial wireless service in November 2001 and currently provides island-wide services to over 100,000 subscribers. In addition, MiPhone provides international roaming services for customers of Sprint-Nextel, Verizon Wireless, Alltel, Telus, Bell Canada, and IUSACELL.

ZTE's ALL-IP CDMA 2000 and GoTa technologies are currently deployed in nearly 60 countries by over 100 operators with a global capacity of more than 30 million lines.

ZTE is also a major Asian producer of handsets and recently announced a deal to supply 3G handsets to the Hutchison-owned 3 network in the UK.

The Mobile World database reports that Oceanic Digital ended Q1 '06 with an estimated 105,000 customers, giving them a market share of 4.5%, behind Cable & Wireless's 31% and Digicel's 64%."

Posted to the site on 21st June 2006