AT&T Wireless Selects Nortel Networks, Ericsson for W-CDMA

AT&T Wireless selected Nortel Networks and Ericsson for what is expected to be the first commercial W-CDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple band Access) wireless network in North America. AT&T Wireless and DoCoMo plan to launch W-CDMA in four U.S. markets by the end of 2004. The W-CDMA radio equipment will operate on the 1900 MHz spectrum and use the same core equipment AT&T Wireless currently employs to support advanced voice and data services through GPRS and EDGE radio technologies. The deployments will also support an all IP-based network architecture. AT&T Wireless said W-CDMA would allow it to significantly increase subscriber capacity on the networks and pave the wave for 3G services. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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