SAO PAULO -(Dow Jones)- VIVO, a mobile telecommunications service provider, has selected Nortel Networks Corp. (NT) to expand and upgrade its third generation code division multiple access, or CDMA, 2000 1X network in Brazil's Northern, Southern and West-Central regions and the states of Bahia and Maranhao in the Northeast.
In a news release, VIVO said Nortel will supply the equipment to expand and upgrade VIVO's core and access networks in the state of Rio Grande do Sul and in the Northern region, which includes more than 70 municipalities, among them: Manaus, Belem, Maraba, Santarem and Macapa.
For the West-Central region, Nortel Networks will supply switches to help expand capacity in the cities of Brasilia and Goiania. In Bahia, Nortel Networks will expand trunking peripherals and supply core and access equipment, the company said.
VIVO, a joint venture between Telefonica Moviles S.A. (TEM) and Portugal Telecom SGPS S/A (PT), is the largest mobile service operator in the Southern Hemisphere.
Nortel offers converged multimedia networks that eliminate the boundaries among voice, data and video.
Company Web Site: http://www.nortelnetworks.com
-Wendy Tsau, Dow Jones Newswires; 416-306-2100
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Posted to the site on 27th October 2004
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