CDG : About the CDG : Latin America News: 1999

12/10/99	Leap Wireless International Subscribers Exceed 100,000; Leap Announces Growth at Annual Meeting of Stockholders
12/09/99	Leap Wireless International Joint Venture PEGASO Launches Service in Mexico City; PEGASO Now Offers Service in Country's Four Leading Economic Centers
12/07/99	GTE Selects Lucent Technologies to Supply PCS CDMA Network in Buenos Aires
11/18/99	Leap Wireless International Operating Company Unveils New Name, Strategy as SMARTCOM PCS in Chile's Fast Growing Wireless Market; Innovative Offerings, Strengthened Management Team and Enhanced Network Bring Mobile Communications to a Broader Audience
11/15/99	cdmaOne™ North America Subscriber Growth Increases 187 Percent In One Year; Global Reach Nearing 42 Million; World's Fastest Growing Wireless Standard Continues Momentum
11/03/99	BellSouth's Compañía de Radiocomunicaciones Móviles S.A. and Lucent Technologies sign contract for CDMA wireless network in Argentina
10/25/99	Lucent Technologies Builds an International Long Distance Gateway and PCS CDMA Wireless Network in Guatemala for Telefonica
10/22/99	Vesper Sao Paulo Makes First Phone Call On Lucent Technologies Wireless System
10/07/99	Unefon, Nortel Networks Sign Estimated US$480 Millon Deal to Build Nationwide Wireless Network in Mexico; High performance network to provide wireless service to over 1.5 million people
10/04/99	LG Completes US$10mn Handset Plant
09/24/99	Brazil's Telesp Celular Signs Contracts For US$14 Million With Lucent Technologies For Digital CDMA Overlay Of Wireless Network in Sorocaba
09/24/99	Telefonica Launches Movistar Service in Puerto Rico
09/08/99	Leap Wireless International Joint Venture PEGASO PCS Launches Service in Monterrey, Mexico PEGASO Meets Aggressive Timeline to Roll Out Service in Mexico's Major Markets
08/31/99	Ericsson signs first CDMA infrastructure contract with Mirror S.A. in Brazil
08/16/99	Canbrá Awards Nortel Networks an Estimated US$500 Million Contract To Build Brazil's First Alternative Telecommunications Network; Unified Networks solution spanning data and telephony to reach Rio de Janeiro and 15 other states in the east coast and northern part of Brazil
08/11/99	Brazil's Telesp Celular Signs Contracts for US$59 Million With Lucent Technologies to Expand CDMA Wireless Network
07/06/99	Motorola Awarded $18 Million To Expand Telefonica del Peru's CDMA Network
06/28/99	Lucent Technologies announces major switching and access win in Brazil with Telemar
06/18/99	GTE wins PCS license for Buenos Aires; will become Argentina`s first nationwide provider of wireless telephone service
06/16/99	Motorola Awarded Nearly $400 Million to Provide Digital Cellular Phone Equipment to Brazil
06/01/99	Nokia Receives USD 165 Million Order for CDMA Phones From Telefonica Cellular in Brazil
05/19/99	Nortel Networks to Supply US$86 Million CDMA Digital Wireless Network to Haitel Haiti's Largest Ever Private Investment to Provide Phone Service to 500,000 People
05/12/99	Foro en Buenos Aires del CDG
05/11/99	Gacetillas
05/01/99	Encuentro del CDG
04/30/99	TRICOM Launches PCS Offering; Announces Cellular Market Share Leadership
04/28/99	Telgua Launches PCS Using cdmaOne Digital Wireless Solution From Nortel Networks
04/14/99	Leap Wireless International Reports Results for Second Quarter
04/13/99	Leap Wireless International Signs Agreement to Acquire 100% Ownership of Chilesat PCS
04/06/99	Motorola Signs $188M (U.S.) Contract to Supply Wireless Phones to Brazil's Telefonica Celular
04/06/99	Lucent Technologies Signs Contract with Argentina's CTI Movil to Provide CDMA Overlay of Its Wireless Network
03/25/99	PEGASO PCS Obtains Commitment for $100 Million Working Capital Facility; Funding for Continued Rollout of Mexico's First 100% Digital Wireless Network (also in Español)
03/24/99	Motorola Awarded $85 Million Expansion Contract to Provide Digital Cellular Phone Equipment to Mexico
03/18/99	Offshore Production of Samsung Mobile Phones Begins
03/04/99	Telefonica to Offer Mobile Telephone Service in Puerto Rico
03/03/99	cdmaOne Roaming Service Expands; US And Mexico Subscribers To Experience Seamless Wireless Communications (also in Español or Português)
02/16/99	Lucent Completes US$18mn Telcel CDMA Upgrade
02/08/99	Japan cdmaOne™ Subscriber Numbers Booming; Exceed 400,000 Customers in Six Months (also in Español)
02/08/99	First Time In Hong Kong; Fourth Annual cdma World Congress Just Four Short Months Away (also in Español)
02/08/99	Leap Wireless International Venture Pegaso PCS and Sprint PCS Announce First 100 Percent Digital U.S.-Mexico Roaming Agreement
01/26/99	NEC DO BRASIL is Deploying 2 Million CDMA Cellular Digital Lines in Brazil
01/14/99	The Pegaso Phone Company Embraces the Inception of "Calling Party Pays" Billing (also in Español)
01/13/99	Lucent Technologies and Spain's Telefonica, S.A. Sign Memorandum of Understanding to Strengthen Strategic Relationship
01/05/99	Brazil's Telesp Celular Signs Contracts For US$340 Million With Lucent Technologies To Build CDMA Wireless Networks

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