Verizon Wireless Upgrading CDMA 1x Sites to EV-DO Rev. A

The USA's Verizon Wireless and Motorola have extended their supply agreement to include upgrades to existing 1x Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO) Revision 0 sites and incremental upgrades to CDMA 1xRTT sites to 1x EV-DO Revision A. The financial terms of the agreement are not being disclosed.

Ed Salas, vice president of network planning, Verizon Wireless, said, "Motorola has been a long-time CDMA infrastructure supplier to Verizon Wireless, and continues to offer us high-quality CDMA technology solutions that help us meet our customers' ever growing needs for wireless broadband services."

"This agreement highlights not only Motorola's past investments in CDMA 1xRTT and 1x EV-DO technology, but our ongoing and projected future investments to insure our most valued customers like Verizon Wireless can continue to offer leading edge broadband data and multimedia services. We expect to continue to evolve CDMA 1x EV-DO technology over time to insure the technology maintains competitiveness with other broadband wireless technology options," said Fred Wright, senior vice president, Networks & Enterprise, Motorola."

Posted to the site on 13th September 2006