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US WEST Selects Nortel Networks DMS Service in Deal Valued up to US$40 Million

Nortel Networks' Solution to Provide Services for Rocky Mountain Resort Community

Research Triangle Park, N.C., Feb. 25, 1999 -- The logistics of providing sophisticated, state-of-the-art communications to resort communities in the rugged terrain of the American Rocky Mountains is the challenge facing US WEST Wireless, LLC, which will expand its existing high-quality Advanced PCS service into 10 new markets, including Salt Lake City, Utah.

Nortel Networks is pleased to announce a three-year contract, valued up to US$40 million, to provide US WEST Wireless, with Nortel Networks' DMS-100* switching system, the only integrated wireless/wireline switching platform currently available in the industry today. This Unified Networks* solution from Nortel Networks systems will transparently integrate reliable, wireless connections with existing U S WEST wireline services. This solution will be deployed in other US WEST territories, including Seattle.

"We selected Nortel Networks' DMS* offering because it is a cost-effective, reliable solution that can be easily integrated into our wireline and wireless network," said John Gonner, vice president, Engineering and Operations Engineering for US WEST Wireless. "In addition, the Nortel Networks DMS switch allows us to add sophisticated services to our portfolio of wireless services."

Some of these US WEST services include US WEST's Secondary Dial Tone capability (patent pending) that enables a host of features such as Three-Way Calling, Call Transfer, and Call Forwarding.

The system also provides US WEST a platform to offer additional unified services such as Nortel Network's Integrated Wireless Centrex, which is one of four components of the Nortel Networks Centrex Unlimited marketing program. This powerful solution set also includes Centrex IP, Centrex Voice Attendant, and the 1-Meg Modem. By seamlessly integrating a business' existing Centrex sites with branch offices, Centrex Unlimited offers telecommuters and other mobile professionals the ability to share the same secure, feature-rich, toll-quality communications network.

"Nortel Networks Centrex Unlimited moves us closer to a boundary-free world of communication, providing the user improved productivity, reduced complexity, and lower costs," said Richard Reid, vice president, DMS North America, Nortel Networks Carrier Solutions. "By bundling high-speed voice, data and voice-activated dialing, US WEST is building a network that meets all the communication needs of today's sophisticated mobile end users, and demonstrates the power of a unified network."

Preliminary License Obtained for Trials of Next-Generation "IMT-2000" Mobile Communications System

Feb. 24, 1999 -- DDI and IDO today received a preliminary license from the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications for trialing next generation "IMT-2000".

In May, 1998, the companies established a "DDI/IDO Joint Testing Lab" with the intention of both contributing to the development of international standards related to "IMT-2000" R&D and preparing for deployment of an joint "IMT-2000" system.

With the license, a trial using 3 base stations (located in Aoyama, Minato-ku, and Roppongi) and 10 mobile stations is planned to commence in April of this year. Data on basic functions, such as frequency propagation, transmit speed, etc, will be collected and analyzed.

As with the April launch of nationwide cdmaOne service, the two companies intend to move aggressively to develop both technological and competitive prowess in order to progress toward offering seamless nationwide IMT-2000 commercial service.

IDO initiates Internet E-commerce with "IDO Online Shop" (handset peripherals) and "IDO Customer Service"

Feb. 24, 1999 -- IDO is beginning commercial cdmaOne service nationwide from April. To help handle the increased ordering of peripheral equipment, etc, that is expected to occur with this launch, the Internet will be used. Internet penetration is relatively high among mobile phone users, and Internet e-commerce will provide greater convenience to subscribers.

"IDO Online Shop" is the first online service provided by a wireless service provider in Japan.

IDO Online Shop

1. Summary
   Unlike traditional distribution channels, online sales will allow 24 hour service.
2. Products
   1. Handset peripherals
      As of March, 250 items
      From April, cdmaOne- related items will be added.
      - battery packs
      - desktop holder, fast-charge AC adapter, desktop fast-charge equipment
      - carrying case
      - earphone mike
      - strap
      - hands-free kit
      - digital data/FAX card
      - etc
   2. Other items
      - IDO entertainment email software "Bejitaru urara" (CD-ROM) etc
3. Operation
   
   • site:http://www.ido.co.jp/
   • Pay by credit card
   • Product shipping
     - arrival within one week of order
     - shipping charge is included in product price
   • service start date: March 1

IDO Customer Service

1. Summary
   Supplementing our traditional retail store registering and telephone services, online Customer Service will allow 24 hour prompt responses.
2. Contents
   - adding/deleting service options (voicemail, etc)
   - changing subscriber fee plan - changing address
   - addition/change/deletion of option for detailed call information (necessary forms must be mailed)
   - changing payment method (necessar forms must be mailed)

"cdmaOne Race Team" Toyota Supra

1999 All-Japan GT500 Championship Circuit

As part of IDO's PR activities supporting the April launch of nationwide seamless cdmaOne service, the company will sponsor a Toyota Supra "cdmaOne Race Team."

Representing the excellent voice clarity provided by top-quality cutting-edge cdmaOne technology, the cdmaOne logo will be prominently displayed in attention-getting colors on both sides of the "cdmaOne Supra."

Well-known motor racing journalist Takayuki Kinoshita and the ever-popular Masahiko Kondo will share driving duties for all 7 races of this year's All-Japan GT500 Championship Circuit, starting with the 1st race to be held March 20 and 21 at the Suzuka Circuit Course.

It is sure to be an exciting year for both the eagerly-awaited cdmaOne launch and the "cdmaOne Race Team."

1. Team Facts:

Team Name: cdmaOne Race
Team Vehicle Name: cdmaOne Supra
Drivers: Takayuki Kinoshita and Masahiko Kondo
Team Manager: Masayuki Satoh
Vehicle Maintenance: Serumo KK
Engine Management: Toyota Technocraft KK

2. Race Schedule:

Mar 20-21: Suzuka Circuit
May 1-2: Fuji Speedway
May 29-30: Sportsland Sugo
Jul 10-11: Central Park / MINE
Aug 7-8: Fuji Speedway
Sep 25-26: TI Circuit
Oct 23-24: Twin Link Motegi

All-Star Race:

Nov 3 (Tentative): TBD

PVT Wireless LP to Build cdmaOne 1900 MHz Network in New Mexico Using Nortel Networks' Switching, Cell Site Equipment

DALLAS, Feb. 18, 1999 -- PVT Wireless LP, a limited partnership between Penasco Valley Telephone Cooperative and Poka Lambro Telecommunications, has selected Nortel Networks to build a cdmaOne* (IS-95 CDMA) 1900 MHz network in the Carlsbad and Roswell, New Mexico areas. Penasco Valley Telephone Cooperative currently uses the DMS*-100 switch from Nortel Networks to provide wireline telephone service to rural desert and mountain regions in New Mexico. The switch will be upgraded to the Nortel Networks' DMS-100 Wireless switch and PVT Wireless Limited Partnership will use the enhanced switch to handle wireless traffic in the Carlsbad and Roswell areas.

"Our offering will provide the people of New Mexico with the comprehensive telecommunication services and features they desire," said Lynn Gunwall, vice-president, subsidiary operations, Penasco Valley Telephone Cooperative. "PVT Wireless LP's approach to the marketplace is unique and furnishes us with a number of opportunities to serve the communities we know well." "The Nortel Networks' DMS-100 Wireless switch continues to win over customers," said Maureen Patterson, account vice-president, Western region, Nortel Networks. "PVT's innovative market approach along with the use of Nortel Networks' cost-effective and flexible DMS-100 Wireless switch puts the company in a strong position to compete on both wireless and wireline fronts."

The DMS-100 Wireless switch elegantly integrates wireless and wireline services, providing a number of features that can potentially increase an operator's revenue.

The switch supports simultaneous and sequential ringing at multiple phones and extends key Centrex features such as corporate dialing plans to wireless phones allowing PVT to offer a unique set of features. Operators can also benefit since switching costs are spread between wireless and wireline applications, without the addition of costly platforms, creating operational savings.

Penasco Valley Telephone Cooperative, Inc. serves desert and mountain areas in New Mexico covering more than 4,000 square miles. The company's success is based upon the independent spirit and quality of its directors, management and employee team.

Poka Lambro provides competitive, total telecommunications solutions for transporting and delivering customized information to enhance the quality of life, economic capabilities and educational opportunities for its members, customers and employees.

Finn Phone Firm's First Choice

HELSINKI, Finland, Feb. 16, 1999 -- A Finnish Internet operator on Monday applied for a third-generation mobile telephone license based on US technology, turning a domestic licensing decision into one with global implications.

Saunalahden Serveri, a closely held independent Internet operator, said its subsidiary Clari Net was seeking a nationwide CDMA 2000 license, a US phone standard developed by Qualcomm.

The application is important for US equipment makers since Finland -- Nokia's home country -- will be the first in Europe to choose third-generation mobile technologies, and its decisions are likely to be followed on both sides of the Atlantic.

The parent company also applied for rival European technology, so that the group would have a chance to win a home-market presence in either technology.

"Our view about the third-generation is that data will be important," Saunalahden Serveri's managing director Harri Johannesdahl told Reuters. "If we were to be confined to fixed lines only, we would lose."

Twelve other applicants sought concessions to build third-generation networks using wideband CDMA, or code division multiple access, which has been endorsed by the European Telecommunications Standardization Institute.

A senior official at the Ministry of Communications said Finland had an open mind about the technologies and could accept both, although it may mean that fewer than the intended four licenses could be granted.

"If a system is good, we will give a license. We are not setting trade policies," said Harri Pursiainen, the head of the ministry's communications department. "We are not giving anything to the industry. What we will be doing is to give users a good technology."

If both technologies were to be used side by side, some frequencies would have to be excluded to prevent interference, and that could mean that only three licenses could be granted.
"But it is possible that four could be granted regardless," Pursiainen said, adding that the ministry did not yet know how two technologies would work side by side.

Saunalahden Serveri, which is far too small to build a mobile-phone network by itself, said it was confident that it would find financing if its application went through.

"We would seek financing from equipment makers, banks, risk-capital investors, and content providers -- and ourselves, of course," Johannesdahl said.

Vodafone and Telenordia, which is owned by British Telecom, Tele Danmark, and Telenor, withdrew from the race for a third-generation license.

Finland said it would make its decision on the issue early this year.

Source: Reuters

Sprint PCS Launches All-Digital Wireless Service in Northeast Ohio

CLEVELAND, OH., Feb. 15, 1999 -- Sprint PCS, the nation's largest 100 percent digital, 100 percent PCS nationwide wireless network, officially launched its service in Northeast Ohio today.

"It's a new age in wireless communications and Sprint PCS is leading the way," said Claire List, district director of Sprint PCS. "We built a nationwide digital wireless system from the ground up, and our customers in Northeast Ohio will join nearly 2.6 million customers across the country who are experiencing the difference with crystal clear connections, superior service and better value."

Sprint PCS has invested more than $250 million to build its Ohio network and offers the most extensive digital wireless coverage area in the state. Sprint PCS customers enjoy a statewide local calling area that allows them to call anywhere in Ohio and some contiguous parts of Indiana, Kentucky and West Virginia at low local calling rates.

List said that as part of an all-digital nationwide network, customers will experience the unsurpassed convenience of Sprint PCS as they travel throughout the United States. "We're changing the way customers think about and use wireless service," List said.

The Sprint PCS service uses Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), the most advanced wireless technology available, which provides superior voice quality and security. Sprint PCS phones include voicemail, caller ID and three-way calling, and in the near future its handsets will provide advanced voice and data capabilities.

Sprint PCS' northeast Ohio market includes Cuyahoga, Lorain, Medina, Summit, Portage, Mahoning, Trumbull, Lake, Geauga, Wayne and Erie counties.

In the fourth quarter of 1998, Sprint PCS added 836,000 new subscribers nationally, for a total of 1.7 million new subscribers in 1998. Its fourth quarter sales figures exceeded the previous high quarter ever recorded by a United States wireless carrier.

Sprint PCS operates the largest 100 percent digital, 100 percent PCS nationwide wireless network in the United States, already serving the majority of the nation's metropolitan areas including more than 4,000 cities and communities across the country. Sprint PCS has licensed PCS coverage of nearly 270 million people in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Frontier Cellular Offers Digital Wireless Local Access

New service gives users fixed or portable phone access without landline connections

ROCHESTER, NY Feb., 9, 1999 - Frontier Cellular is now offering a technology that replaces the need for traditional copper phone lines for voice communications. Known as digital wireless local access, the system looks and acts like a traditional phone, but transmits via digital wireless signals.

Unlike traditional landlines that may require installation fees and waiting periods, the digital wireless local access system simply plugs into an electrical outlet and is immediately ready for use. In addition to having many features of a traditional phone, such as a dial tone, call waiting and three-way calling, the system also gives customers increased mobility.

"When you move, the phone moves with you," said Joseph Cufari, director of advanced technologies at Frontier Cellular. "This technology enables businesses, such as construction companies, to avoid the hassle of constantly having to activate a new phone line when they move to a new location."

Applications for residential customers include a phone line for a vacation home, a second line for a teenager, or a line for a rural residence without access to a landline, Cufari said.

Analysts predict the popularity of digital wireless local access will explode among both residential and business customers. According to Allied Business Intelligence, Inc., and Oyster Bay, NY-based research firm, the worldwide market for digital wireless local access will expand more than 50 times over the next eight years to more than 100 million customers.

Frontier Cellular is now offering digital wireless local access in Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Utica/Rome, Binghamton, Elmira, Corning, Auburn and Ithaca. Calling plans start at $19.95 per month.

Frontier Cellular, which covers more than 34,000 square miles and provides wireless service to customers in Rochester, Buffalo, Syracuse, Binghamton, Utica/Rome, Watertown, Elmira and the Adirondacks, is a joint venture between Frontier Corporation and Bell Atlantic Mobile. For more information, visit the Frontier Cellular website at www.frontiercellular.com.

Sprint PCS®, Motorola Demonstrate 3G Wireless Capabilities

CTIA Demonstration Marks Sprint PCS and Motorola's Commitment to Third-Generation CDMA2000 Technology

New Orleans, Feb. 8, 1999 -- Sprint PCS and Motorola, Inc.'s Network Solutions Sector (NSS) today demonstrated an interactive, high-resolution wireless videoconference between two Motorola base stations utilizing third-generation CDMA2000 wireless technology (3G). The video demonstration uses the CDMA2000 air Interface, which is currently being developed by international standards bodies, to transmit data--both audio and video--nearly 10 times faster than t he most advanced cdmaOne™ network deployed today.

Today's demonstration marked the first wireless 128 kilobit per second (Kbps) demonstration of CDMA2000 technology in the United States. The video demonstration uses Radio Transmission Technology, or RTT, which doubles voice capacity and increases data capacity up to six times, compared with current second generation (2G) cdmaOne systems. Today's 2G systems typically operated at data rates of 9.6 or 14.4 Kbps.

Last year at the CTIA Convention and Exposition, Spring PCS, Motorola NSS, Lucent Technologies, Nortel Networks and Qualcomm boldly stated their vision for 3G technology, including:

• A need for backward compatibility with today's cdmaOne-- the leading standard for digital wireless in North America;
• The ability to offer increased data rates; and
• The utilization of existing spectrum licensed for PCS.

This year, Motorola NSS, Sprint PCS and its other network vendors are focusing their attention on trialing prototype CDMA2000 technology, and evaluating the future demands and desires of CDMA2000 subscribers. Key 3G applications the companies are exploring include wireless access to the Internet, multi-media, and two-way video-conferencing, all via a Spring PCS wireless phone. Sprint PCS plans to leverage its initial deployment of cmdaOne infrastructure to quickly bring 3G functionally to consumers.

"Sprint PCS is dedicated to providing the enhanced features and services of 3G technol0gy in an early the frame," said Keith Paglusch, senior vice president of Technical Services and Network Operations, Sprint PCS. "Through teamwork with our vendors and our commitment to meeting the needs of our customers, Sprint PCS fully expects to lead the industry in the deployment of advancements in 3 G technology."

Motorola NSS has previously announced that its existing cmdaOne infrastructure equipment--from its mobile switches to its base stations--can be easily upgraded to CDMA2000.

"Motorola NSS is proud to collaborate with Sprint PCS to demonstrate and test the abilities of advanced wireless 3G technology," said John Cipolla, vice president and general manager of Motorola NSS's CDMA Systems Division. "We are committed to supporting our customers with advanced 3 G solutions, a cost-effective migration path and enhanced revenue opportunities. 3G technology, in turn, will enable operators to offer consumers new, advanced data applications such as wireless access to: e-mail; the Internet or Corporate Intranets. This truly will allow the consumer take their world with them."

BACKGROUND:

A cooperative planning effort between Sprint PCS and Motorola NSS for 3G technology began in early 1998. The relationship has evolved to 3G demonstrations and the planning of future 3G trials. The first collaborative effort for demonstrating 3G technology began during the CDMA Development Group's (CDG) 1998 CDMA Congress of the Americas Conference held in Los Angeles in November. In this demonstration of prototype platforms, 6x RTT was demonstrated using video transmission between two Motorola bases stations.

In additional to these demonstrations, future 3G demos are planned between Sprint PCS and its network vendors throughout 1999. Furthermore, work is in progress to conduct formal trials of 3G technology beginning in 2000. These trials are planned to take place in the Sprint PCS Technology Integration Center in Lenexa, Kan., using existing Sprint PCS infrastructure with vendor-developed enhancements.

Leap Wireless International Selects PulsePoint Communications to Provide NextGen Enhanced Services in Its New Wireless Networks Worldwide International Wireless Carrier to Bring PC Economies Into Wireless Communications

CARPINTERIA, Calif., Feb. 8, 1999 -- PulsePoint Communications™, developer of the PulsePoint™ Enhanced Application Platform, and Leap Wireless International, Inc., a wireless communications carrier deploying Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) networks around the world, announced today an agreement to work toward establishing PulsePoint Communications as the primary supplier of voicemail and unified messaging solutions for Leap's new networks. The result of this agreement is the pairing of two companies with telecommunications expertise and the charter to deploy networks and next generation enhanced services in markets around the world.

Leap and its operating companies expect to reap considerable benefit from the PulsePoint Enhanced Application Platform. It is the first Internet-ready, open-system, standards-based and carrier-grade enhanced services solution. As such, it brings the PC-like economies of rapid application development to the wireless communications sector, which has traditionally been unable to respond to customers' evolving needs, due to the limitations of proprietary enhanced services platforms. Under the agreement, Leap is not obligated to purchase any minimum quantity of equipment from PulsePoint Communications.

"Selection of PulsePoint Communications will allow Leap's operating companies to provide an enhanced services solution to their customers," said Harvey P. White, chairman and chief executive officer of Leap Wireless International. "In both developed and emerging countries, wireless carriers are extremely sophisticated. So it is no surprise they've articulated the need for powerful messaging solutions, and we recognize that PulsePoint Communications is a pioneer of NextGen Enhanced Services."

Widely viewed as a foundation technology for next generation wireless networks, CDMA supports both wireless voice and data services with more than three times the capacity of current digital networks. As such, CDMA is the logical wireless extension to IP (Internet Protocol)-telephony networks, which will transmit voice and data using data-packet protocols. The PulsePoint Enhanced Application Platform architecture directly integrates with public switch telephone, wireless and IP-telephony networks. It is a future-ready platform foundation for evolving CDMA network services. PulsePoint Communications created the PulsePoint Enhanced Application Platform specifically to bring enterprise solutions into public networks. As such, PulsePoint Communications developed the world's first open-system, standards-based and carrier-grade solution based on Microsoft® Windows NT® Server.

"PulsePoint makes it possible for service providers to deploy applications based on Windows NT Server 4.0 while realizing full carrier-grade performance," said Thomas Koll, vice president of Microsoft's Internet Customer Unit. "They are bringing the economies that have benefited the personal computing industry to the telecommunications sector."

The Market According to a recent Yankee Group study, sixty million new wireless customers are projected in the United States over the next five years. Last year's global wireless population exceeded 300 million, with 80% of the growth taking place outside the United States. With 75 million new Internet customers projected in the United States over the next five years, and 300 million users worldwide by the year 2000, email has become mainstream among consumers. As such, analysts project a growing need to extend email to the wireless handset and to provide unified messaging-access to all message types from a single inbox. This rapid consumer growth of wireless usage has intensified the need for high capacity networks, and CDMA has become the technology of choice, with its unsurpassed advantages in spectral efficiency.

The increase in Internet and wireless service usage among consumers makes PulsePoint's messaging solutions a strong complement to a growing and evolving wireless market place.

"Anyone who has deployed wireless networks can recognize Leap is moving in 'Internet time'. We are extremely pleased to move with them," said Mark Ozur, president and chief executive officer of PulsePoint Communications.

"Development of the PulsePoint Enhanced Application Platform and Voice Mail Application is complete and operational. We are prepared to service and support worldwide demand through strategic partnerships with IBM and Solectron. The final step is to add customers and channels of distribution, and Leap Wireless is both."

Leap Wireless International Venture Pegaso PCS and Sprint PCS Announce First 100 Percent Digital U.S.-Mexico Roaming Agreement

*Calling Plans Expected in San Diego-Tijuana to Enable Competitive Cross-Border Wireless Communications

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 8, 1999 -- Wireless communications carrier Leap Wireless International, Inc. and its Mexican venture, Pegaso PCS, today announced a groundbreaking roaming agreement with Sprint PCS -- the first bi-national roaming agreement between two 100 percent digital, 100 percent PCS wireless networks on either side of the U.S.-Mexico border.

The Pegaso PCS-Sprint PCS agreement is expected to be the first of its kind to offer competitive cross-border wireless communications in selected southern bi-national metropolitan areas, starting with San Diego and Tijuana. People who regularly cross the border will be able to use their mobile phones at competitive rates on either side of the world's busiest international border crossing. With a combined population of approximately 4 million, San Diego and Tijuana make up the 9th largest metropolitan area in the North American Free Trade (NAFTA) countries and the largest bi-national metropolitan area along the 2,000-mile border between Mexico and the United States.

"Over 60,000 people cross into San Diego from Mexico every day," said Alejandro Orvananos, chief commercial officer of Pegaso. "Tijuana is Mexico's fastest-growing city, and in the last decade Tijuanans have spent billions of dollars on shopping, recreation and tourism in San Diego. Through this roaming agreement, Pegaso will offer its customers the simple, user-friendly and affordable way to stay permanently connected while working or visiting the United States that they've been waiting for."

With this roaming agreement, Pegaso customers will be able to use the nationwide Sprint PCS network to make and receive calls at competitive rates for both airtime and long distance. Sprint PCS customers traveling in Mexico will be able to use the Pegaso network in the same way. Pegaso, which has a license to offer nationwide PCS service in Mexico, plans to launch in the country's four largest cities in 1999, starting with Tijuana at the end of Feb. and moving on to Mexico City, Monterrey and Guadalajara.

Sprint PCS-Pegaso roaming is expected to be available in the second quarter of 1999.

"Our agreement with Pegaso is an important step in expanding the reach of personal communication services for our customers beyond U.S. borders to the south," said Bernie Bianchino, chief business development officer for Sprint PCS.

"Because our networks share the same digital technology, the roaming agreement will give Sprint PCS customers significant advantages in voice clarity, call privacy and security when they travel in Mexico."

Digital technology all but eliminates the risk of cloning a serious problem for wireless communications in both countries. In addition, customers will enjoy features such as automatic roaming, automatic call delivery, caller ID, and automatic access to customer care in their home country.

"As the largest shareholder in the Pegaso consortium, Leap Wireless is pleased to have played an instrumental role in bringing Sprint PCS and Pegaso together," said Harvey P. White, chairman and CEO of Leap. "Five years after NAFTA was enacted, this roaming agreement demonstrates how vibrant economic trade has become between the two countries, and its vast potential for growth."

Leap owns 33 percent of Pegaso. Other investors include Grupo Pegaso, Grupo Televisa, Citicorp Equity Capital Latin America, AIG-GE Capital Latin America Infrastructure Fund, and Nissho Iwai Corporation. Leap believes that Mexico represents an excellent opportunity for wireless communications. Mexico is a country of 99 million people with teledensity of 9.7 percent and wireless penetration of approximately 3.5 percent.

Sprint PCS, Nortel Networks Achieve Another Rollout Milestone -- D & E Market Launches, Second Carrier Deployments Help Meet Demand

DALLAS, Feb. 4, 1999 -- With the recent commercial service launch in Atlanta, Ga., Nortel Networks has successfully completed rollout of Sprint PCS digital wireless networks in six D and E markets under a previously announced US$300 million agreement.

Nortel Networks cdmaOne (IS-95 CDMA) equipment now provides Sprint PCS service across the southern and midwestern US as a result of an intensive, 30-month rollout involving more than 4,700 base stations and an infrastructure investment of US$1.3 billion.

Sprint PCS markets newly served by Nortel Networks equipment include Atlanta; Houston, Texas; Memphis, Tenn.; and Jacksonville, Tallahassee and Tampa, Fla. Nortel Networks equipment already serves Sprint PCS markets in Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio and Austin, Tex.; Kansas City and St. Louis, Mo.; Little Rock, Ark.; Miami, Fla.; Nashville, Tenn.; and New Orleans, La. To help Sprint PCS keep up with rapidly growing subscriber demand, Nortel Networks has already deployed second carriers in Miami, Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin and San Antonio, and more are planned for 1999. A second carrier increases network capacity by allowing traffic to be shared between two radio frequencies. Nortel Networks multi-carrier CDMA solutions can support up to 11 carriers as capacity needs dictate.

"Having a nationwide footprint has always been fundamental to our plan," said Keith Paglusch, senior vice-president, technical services and network operations, Sprint PCS. "Nortel Networks has been a key partner in making sure we reached that goal in a timely manner." "Keeping up with subscriber demand is a key component in operating our networks, and Nortel Networks is helping us meet that challenge with both multi-carrier and cell split solutions," Paglusch said. "The dedication and teamwork of all involved from both Sprint PCS and Nortel Networks has been remarkable," said Nancy White, vice-president and general manager, US region, Nortel Networks. "What we've accomplished in just 30 months, I believe, is a testament to that teamwork, and to the quality, reliability and performance of our CDMA solutions."

AirTouch, Nortel Networks Sign US$500 Million Contract for Wireless Equipment

Unified Networks Solution Will Expand, Upgrade Los Angeles, Great Lakes Region

DALLAS, Feb. 3, 1999 -- AirTouch Cellular today signed a multi-year, US$500 million contract with Nortel Networks to expand and upgrade AirTouch's digital cellular networks in Los Angeles and in the Great Lakes region. Nortel Networks has now received awards for new wireless networks and network expansions valued at nearly US$1.5 billion in just over the first 30 days of 1999, and more than US$2 billion in the last 60 days. With completion of the Los Angeles buildout later this year, Nortel Networks will supply about 40 percent of the network infrastructure for AirTouch's US cellular markets.

Nortel Networks will provide both analog and cdmaOne (IS-95 CDMA) digital wireless network infrastructure equipment for AirTouch's Los Angeles market including DMS-MTX SuperNode switching equipment. AirTouch will also deploy the Nortel Networks CDMA Metro Cell, which has unparalleled modularity and flexibility, and positions wireless operators to deliver third generation (3G) wireless services.

"Nortel Networks provided us with a compelling way to expand and further improve our network in Southern California," said Nancy Hobbs, executive vice-president and general manager, AirTouch Cellular.

"This contract gives us an opportunity to upgrade our network so that we meet customer needs for the next century while reducing costs over time," Hobbs said. "We like the Nortel Networks solution today and we share their vision of the future."

"Our CDMA portfolio, extensive experience in deploying large-scale digital networks and our Unified Networks(x) vision of IP-based mobile networks and services played a crucial role in winning AirTouch's business in the Los Angeles market," said Matt Desch, president, Wireless Solutions, Nortel Networks. "We're excited to work with AirTouch to deliver feature-rich voice and mobile Internet services to customers in the second largest wireless market in the US."

The Unified Networks solution from Nortel Networks will provide AirTouch's Southern California subscribers with advanced features, and also provide an evolution to mobile Internet services.

Frontier Cellular Plans Advanced Features, Network Expansion Under New Contract With Lucent Technologies

MURRAY HILL, N.J., Feb. 2, 1999 -- Lucent Technologies today announced it has signed a $70 million contract with Frontier Cellular that will enable the Upstate New York carrier to offer its customers new, innovative wireless services and also expand its coverage areas. The three-year deal calls for Lucent to provide Intelligent Networking software and infrastructure equipment to Frontier Cellular so it can expand coverage of its Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) -based digital wireless networks.

Frontier Cellular, a premier provider of wireless services in the northeastern United States, serves Upstate New York, including Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, and Binghamton.

The wireless technology provided by Lucent will enable Frontier Cellular to offer convenient services to its customers, including Short Message Service Center, Wireless Number Portability, Stand-alone Home Location Register (SHLR), and Flexible Alerting. Under the terms of this contract, Frontier Cellular will also have the option of purchasing additional software for advanced intelligent network services such as Virtual Private Network, Over- the-Air Service Activation, Calling Name Display and Wireless Toll Free.

"This new three-year deal will enable Frontier Cellular to offer our customers the most advanced and most innovative wireless products available," said Frontier Cellular president Ron Boillat. "Not only is it a significant investment in the future of our network, it also reaffirms our commitment to being the wireless technology leader in Upstate New York."

Short Message Service Center turns the subscriber's handset into a multi- functional device that provides a variety of electronic messaging capabilities. Wireless Number Portability allows subscribers who change carriers to keep the same phone number. SHLR is a network-based Home Location Register that contains feature and profile information for every subscriber and instructs remote mobile switching centers how to process individual calls. Flexible Alerting enables subscribers to have their incoming calls ring on their home, wireless and/or business phones simultaneously, completing the call to the first phone answered.

This new contract will enable Frontier Cellular to remain at the forefront of wireless technology and continue to be an innovator of advanced wireless products, such as its previously announced "Data on the Run" service. The "Data on the Run" service, with technology also by Lucent, allows Frontier customers to access the Internet, check e-mail and otherwise make information immediately available via a wireless phone and laptop computer.

The agreement also builds on Lucent's existing relationship with Frontier Cellular as the infrastructure provider for both its analog and digital networks.

"We are excited to extend our relationship with Frontier Cellular as it continues to build-out its networks and continues offering data and other advanced applications to its customers," said Chuck Many, Lucent Technologies' vice president-Emerging Wireless Markets. "Frontier Cellular is aggressively moving forward to offer its customers the best technology and services available, and Lucent is proud that Frontier has put its trust in us to deliver -- again."

Frontier Cellular, which covers more than 34,000 square miles and provides wireless service to customers in Rochester, Buffalo, Syracuse, Binghamton, Utica/Rome, Watertown, Elmira and the Adirondacks, is a joint venture between Frontier Corporation and Bell Atlantic Mobile. For more information, visit the Frontier Cellular web site at www.frontiercellular.com.

Ameritech Launches its ClearPath Digital Wireless Service in Cincinnati Outstanding Quality With Motorola's Phone That Is Small and Light Enough to Fit in Your Pocket

CINCINNATI, Feb. 2, 1999 -- Ameritech, Ohio's leading communications company, today introduces ClearPath(SM), its most advanced digital wireless service.
Ameritech's ClearPath wireless service is available with Motorola's digital StarTAC™, one of the world's smallest and lightest cell phones. It is about the size of a pager and as light as four house keys.

"Ameritech's ClearPath makes calls sound so clear it's like you're there talking to the person face to face," said Jay Ellison, vice president of sales for Ameritech cellular services. "Digital service has enhanced capabilities that provide customers with outstanding call clarity, longer talk time, and exceptional privacy and fraud protection."
ClearPath complements Ameritech's current analog service with several new advancements and capabilities for customers who depend on wireless service for everyday communications, including:

toll-free calling - no long-distance charges for calls made from Ameritech's Ohio service areas to anywhere within the state.

nationwide roaming - calls can be made anywhere in the United States while traveling outside the home service area.

Voice Mail with message waiting indicator - when someone leaves a voice mail message, a special icon appears on the phone's display when the power is on.

Caller ID - when you receive a call, the caller's number appears on the phone's display so you can decide whether or not to take the call.

Text and Numeric Messaging Service - similar to a pager, so callers can send a voice or numeric message to your ClearPath phone.

e-mail messaging - using the Internet, callers can send a text message to your ClearPath phone.

"It's important for customers to have a choice when it comes to wireless service, and more people are choosing digital service," said Phillip Redman, program manager for The Yankee Group, an industry leading information technology market research and communications firm. "In 1999, more people will choose digital service because it is the latest and greatest wireless technology that offers clearer reception and more features."

A ClearPath service plan costs $39.95 a month and includes 200 peak minutes of use between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. Monday through Friday, with free nights and weekends and Nokia phone. ClearPath will be available in Ameritech Communication Centers, participating authorized agent locations and participating Ameritech kiosks in Sears stores throughout the Cincinnati metropolitan area on Feb. 3, 1999.
ClearPath serves from Lebanon south toward South Florence, Ky., and from Batavia west toward Lawrenceburg, Ind.

Ameritech's ClearPath is based on Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), the most advanced digital wireless technology, which the company selected and customers chose during its test trials. CDMA utilizes the airwaves more efficiently and delivers clearer sound quality.

Vendor News

ADC and QUALCOMM Sign OEM Agreement for NewNet Wireless Messaging Products

Feb. 18, 1999 -- ADC TELECOMMUNICATIONS: ADC and QUALCOMM sign OEM agreement for NewNet wireless messaging products -- ADC's NewNet wireless messaging technology given preferred vendor status ADC Telecommunications Inc announced today that it has signed a three-year preferred vendor agreement for its NewNet wireless messaging products with QUALCOMM Incorporated. Under terms of the agreement, the SMserver™ short message service (SMS) product and the OTAserver™ over-the-air activation (OTA) product will be distributed by QUALCOMM for use in CDMA digital wireless networks.

ADC's NewNet SMserver software provides digital wireless operators the ability to generate additional revenue and potentially increase airtime usage by adding SMS applications to their portfolio of value-added subscriber services. The SMserver software manages transmission of text messages to mobile handsets, providing subscribers with voice mail notification, digital pages and custom short text messages. ADC's NewNet OTAserver software provides digital wireless operators the ability to provision wireless services quickly, cost-effectively and securely. The server software accepts, manages, and ensures reliable completion of subscriber activation, authentication and roaming list update services "over-the-air."

Grant Wakelin, president of ADC's Software Systems division said, "We are pleased that QUALCOMM has selected ADC to complement its wireless infrastructure offering. This agreement is consistent with our goal of establishing both direct and indirect channels in the wireless market and providing leading-edge platforms to address the messaging needs of carriers."

"Scalability of the NewNet messaging product line and its open-system architecture were key elements in our decision to partner with ADC," said Wendy Fulk, vice president of marketing for QUALCOMM Wireless Systems. "Our goal is to deploy our CDMA wireless infrastructure in both small and large wireless markets, and scalability helps us meet the cost targets of our customers worldwide."

Lucent Completes US$18mn Telcel CDMA Upgrade

Venezuela, Feb. 16, 1999 -- Lucent Technologies has upgraded the mobile network of Venezuela's mobile operator Telcel to the cdmaOne digital wireless standard in a contract worth US$18mn. The latest upgrade covers the Tejerias-Valencia area in Carabobo State, and follows previous installation in the capital, Caracas.

The new Lucent equipment incorporating the cdmaOne standard is based on code division multiple access (CDMA) that, "provides wireless carriers with greater call capacity than analog and other digital systems and offers customers enhanced call quality that is comparable to landline service." Telcel is a joint venture between BellSouth and Venezuelan-based Comtel. Telcel holds a 60% share of the cellular market in Venezuela, with more than 350,000 subscribers in Caracas alone and over a million throughout the country.

Lucent Technologies Announces Wireless Industry's Most Flexible Solution For Preserving Investment in cdmaOneSystems Through Third Generation (3G)

Murray Hill, N.J., Tuesday, Feb. 9, 1999 -- Lucent Technologies today announced new hardware and software options to provide cdmaOne™ wireless network operators unprecedented investment protection with an evolution path to CDMA2000™ third generation (3G) wireless services.

Lucent said a cost-effective CDMA2000 hardware module for its Autoplex® networks complements the company's newly-announced next-generation Flexent™ Modular Cell in offering current operators the most flexible migration path to full 3G capabilities. The CDMA2000 module contains those functions required for the introduction of CDMA2000 services on existing networks without the need for standalone 3G base stations.

The CDMA2000 standard, derived from the commercial cdmaOne digital wireless systems based on Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), is a set of industry-developed specifications for meeting the IMT-2000 performance criteria of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), particularly for high-speed wireless data transmission. Lucent plans a phased introduction of these capabilities with its CDMA2000-1X technology later this year, to be followed by large-scale deployments of CDMA2000 systems over the next three years.

"Even the earliest pioneers who built digital overlays to their analog cellular networks can virtually future-proof their assets with our innovative CDMA2000 Investment Protection Option," said Bill Wiberg, president of Lucent's AMPS and PCS business. "It offers current operators a cost-effective hardware add-on to all of their existing Autoplex Series II and cdmaOne minicell products and will enable our customers to evolve from cdmaOne, to CDMA2000-1X and CDMA2000-3X technologies. "

Lucent's CDMA2000 Investment Protection Option offers operators an evolutionary means for delivering services enabled by new wireless network technology. Operators can initially deploy CDMA2000-1X channel elements in existing Autoplex networks to effectively double voice capacity and introduce high-speed wireless data rates of up to 144 kb/s as specified under the IMT-2000 blueprint.

Then, through either the CDMA2000 module or the Flexent CDMA Modular Cell, the network can achieve still higher IMT-2000 data rates by transmitting data to the mobile over three standard 1.25 MHz carriers. This multi-carrier system preserves investments in Lucent's core Autoplex and Flexent Network elements, including the 5ESS® AnyMedia™ Switch and Lucent's advanced, packet-based network architecture which will be required for the high speed data transmission in 3G systems.

"CDMA2000 was conceived to be forward- and backward-compatible for customers. Therefore, we require existing phones to function in our 3G network and 3G handsets to work on our current cdmaOne wireless systems," said Ted Hoffman, vice president of technology development for Bell Atlantic Mobile. "Lucent's Investment Protection Option makes phased 3G nearly future-proof for carriers as they work to evolve standards."

"Our investment in cdmaOne is extensive," said Keith Paglusch, Sprint PCS senior vice president-technical services and network operations. "It is very important to us and our customers that we protect that investment as we deploy the next generation of CDMA. Our work with Lucent on third generation products is very much focused on this principle."

"We have an established record of investment protection, " said Lucent's Wiberg, noting that the Autoplex Series II base stations enabled cellular customers to retain the bulk of their investment in the transition to second generation digital technology. "With the CDMA2000 Investment Protection Option, we are continuing this commitment to evolving from second generation technology to full IMT-2000 capabilities. This is consistent with our commitment to evolve our entire portfolio of second generation standards-based products to 3G.

"Moreover, "he added, "the CDMA2000 Investment Protection Option provides our cdmaOne customers with the most cost-effective solutions for quick deployment of 3G services. This can be accomplished within current licensed bands, and without replacing existing base stations.

Nortel Networks Establishes Benchmark for Wireless Network Cost Performance Mobile Webtone to Put "The Net In Your Pocket," Roth Tells CTIA Wireless '99

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 9, 1999 -- Northern Telecom Limited vice-chairman and CEO John Roth today established the cost performance benchmark against which wireless networks will be measured in the next millennium.

"The promise of mobile data and Internet services as convenient and ubiquitous as wireless phone service can be realized only with a profound, fundamental change in the cost of operating wireless networks," Roth told CTIA Wireless '99 attendees and a live global audience over the Internet (http://www.broadcast.com). "Nortel Networks has set a goal to drive the overall cost of operating a mobile network down by an order of magnitude," Roth said. "Specifically, we're stepping up to the challenge of reducing the operator's total cost per megabit in a typical mobile network from 37 cents today to only 4 cents within five years."

Roth defined a new market category - Mobile Webtone - and unveiled Nortel Networks' plan for moving operators gracefully from traditional circuit-switched mobile telephony network architectures to next generation, IP-optimized, packet-based Unified Networks* solutions. Mobile Webtone brings the advantages of mobility to the Internet for business and consumers with the high quality and reliability traditionally associated with Nortel Networks.

"Mobile Webtone will profoundly change the way we think about wireless communications," Roth said. "It will literally put The Net In Your Pocket,* combining the power of data with the convenience of mobility for 'anytime, anywhere' access to information and services over the Internet from any information appliance."

"Our Unified Networks solutions with Mobile Webtone will create new revenue opportunities by offering the full Internet experience untethered from the desktop," said Matt Desch, president, Wireless Solutions, Nortel Networks. Nortel Networks is first to market with a strategy and products for Mobile Webtone, including a fundamentally new paradigm in network design, an available portfolio of product and service offerings, and evolutionary radio technology.

"The future calls for networks that are optimized for a variety of applications requiring a mix of voice and data, wireline and wireless, circuit and packet-switched elements," said Sohail Qadri, director of mobility for British Telecom, which recently announced a third generation wireless trial with Nortel Networks. "Nortel Networks is a company with the vision and ability to create [these] end-to-end solutions." "We believe the future of wireless in the 3G era is in high speed access and packet switching to deliver true multimedia services," said Rod Nelson, chief technology officer, AT&T Wireless Services. "We also think this transition will occur rapidly over the next few years, requiring an operational model that adds bandwidth and services much more cost-effectively than today. Nortel Networks' Mobile Webtone architecture is very much aligned with this vision."

"As the largest CDMA wireless service operator in the US, we are keenly interested in network improvements that will allow us to reduce our operations costs while improving productivity," said Keith Paglusch, senior vice-president, technical services and network operations, Sprint PCS. "Mobile Webtone represents a very positive movement in this direction, and we're anxious to explore the possibilities."

Nortel Networks' new design paradigm for delivery of Mobile Webtone includes:

1) a single, consistent network architecture for telephony and data communications.

2) reduction of facilities costs through distribution of access, transport and switching functions using packet routers and switches.

3) reduction of OA&M costs through consolidation of service and management functions.

4) end-to-end carriage of voice payload in compressed form for a reduction in network elements and circuit-switched links.

5) migration of new service development and control functions to commercially available, IP-based computer platforms. "Nortel Networks' Mobile Webtone shows a keen understanding of the importance of the packet network architecture and the advantages and cost efficiencies it can offer network operators," said Jane Zweig, executive vice-president, Herschel Shosteck Associates Limited. "Only Nortel Networks can bring together today the technology and experience in digital wireless, enterprise mobility, and circuit and packet network infrastructure to deliver the benefits of Mobile Webtone," Roth said.

Nortel Networks' portfolio of products and services available today to help wireless operators begin delivering Mobile Webtone includes: Passport* 8300 switches for GSM data networking; the Contivity* Extranet switches for enterprise mobile office applications; Bay Networks' routers, LAN switches, and BayStack* 660 wireless LANs; CDPD (Cellular Digital Packet Data) radios; and e-mobility services such as Group Conferencing, Wireless Prepaid, Information Messaging and standalone HLR (Home Location Register).

Nortel Networks will support this new paradigm with an evolutionary radio technology program including: GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) and EDGE (Enhanced Data for GSM) for GSM and TDMA; 1XRTT for CDMA; and evolution to future third generation standards.

"Our goal is to develop leading edge solutions which fully support the diverse business plans and technology choices of our global customers," Desch said. "This means subscriber focused products that will help operators be profitable today while ensuring a smooth evolution to tomorrow."

Nortel Networks Introduces WIN-Based Wireless Prepaid Service Industry's First Switchless, Trunkless Solution Offers Cost-Effective Market Entry

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 9, 1999 -- Nortel Networks introduced today at CTIA's Wireless '99 the industry's first switchless and trunkless Wireless Prepaid solution, a cost-effective alternative for AMPS, TDMA and CDMA wireless carriers seeking to add new subscribers and increase revenues. Based on forthcoming Wireless Intelligent Network (WIN) Phase 2 standards, the Nortel Networks Wireless Prepaid solution uses WIN triggers and SS7 messages to communicate with the network, eliminating the need for a programmable switch and voice trunks between the application and the Nortel Networks DMS*-MTX* SuperNode* digital mobile switch. "Prepaid service has proven to be an effective way to add wireless subscribers," said John Vice, vice-president and general manager, Wireless Solutions, Nortel Networks. "Our unique solution provides operators the most efficient and cost-effective means of entering the prepaid market or revamping current prepaid services to accommodate growth."

The Nortel Networks Wireless Prepaid solution, developed in cooperation with NBTel Global, does not require dedicated numbers or special translation rules, simplifying operation and maintenance. Operators can monitor prepaid calls, maintain account balances in real time, and disconnect a call when the account balance reaches zero, minimizing fraudulent use. Nortel Networks' Wireless Prepaid benefits subscribers as well by significantly reducing call setup time, and by allowing them to switch from traditional to prepaid accounts and vice versa without changing phone numbers. Subscribers can also obtain accurate, up-to-the-minute account balance information through interactive voice response or a customer care center.

Wireless Prepaid is one of the newest in a family of e-mobility services from Nortel Networks. These services are designed to operate in a distributed, IP-based environment, allowing operators to take full advantage of the simplicity, flexibility and economies of scale associated with using industry standard computing platforms.

Other Nortel Networks e-mobility services include Wireless Group Conferencing, Information Messaging and standalone HLR (Home Location Register).

QUALCOMM Unveils New Semiconductor-Software Solutions to Support Next-Generation Wireless Devices QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies Develops Further Integrated Chipsets, Software Solutions

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 8, 1999 -- QUALCOMM Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM), pioneer and world leader of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) digital wireless technology, today presented its vision of future wireless telecommunication with technologies that will support the development of a new age of wireless devices and services. The company also announced it has shipped an industry-record, 100 million chips in total, to CDMA handset manufacturers worldwide.

The announcement marks the naming of QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies, formerly QUALCOMM's ASIC Products, the industry's leading semiconductor and Software developer and provider. The name reflects the division's evolution from a hardware supplier to a strategic partner supplying a complete range of CDMA- based solutions.

New technologies include QUALCOMM's industry-leading sixth generation, single-chip Mobile Station Modem™ (MSM™) and a voice-recognition software product that provides speech-prompting and speech recognition functions. The division also introduced other supporting chipset solutions that will provide for the development of smaller CDMA handsets with greater power management and operating efficiency.

"The advanced products we've unveiled this week will enable a new future of opportunities for wireless telecommunications. They reflect our vision and commitment to challenge the conventional uses of technology, to dream of new applications and to drive development through close collaboration with our partners," said Don Schrock, president of QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies. "The dramatic consumer acceptance of CDMA-based networks services we've seen over the past five years will accelerate as we share with handset manufacturers our ideas for new applications of the technology."

New solutions presented by QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies at CTIA '99 include:

MSM3100™ Baseband Processing Solution
The MSM3100 solution is the sixth-generation Mobile Station Modem (MSM) and features: Packet-switched data speeds up to 86.4 kilobits per second (kbps); a 50 percent reduction in the printed circuit board area; and a 50 percent increase in stand-by time, to an estimated 300 hours in CDMA mode, using advanced power management. These unique features allow phone manufacturers the ability to innovate and differentiate their CDMA handsets while reducing development costs. The MSM3100 chip is the first baseband modem in the world to offer chip hardware support for advanced audio signal processing, location positioning using CDMA and Global Positioning System (GPS) technology and Universal Serial Bus (USB) providing manufacturers with a feature-rich, cost-effective and integrated solution.

PureVoice VR Voice Recognition Software
QUALCOMM's PureVoice VR™ voice recognition software will allow manufacturers to quickly add powerful speech capabilities to CDMA handsets, benefiting consumers with easier hands-free use and access to complete voice dialing telephone directories. The PureVoice VR software is designed specifically for dual-mode cellular and PCS handset applications. It delivers speaker-dependent speech recognition, speaker-independent yes/no control words, voice memo and speech prompting.

Next-Generation MSM3100 Family Supporting Chipsets
A new series of next-generation Radio Frequency (RF) and analog chips, the RFT3100™ and RFR3100™ processors, will achieve reductions in board area by as much as 50 percent and significantly lower power consumption for future handset models. Supporting the processors is the new PM1000™, a power management device developed to meet the demanding power requirements of CDMA handsets. The PM1000 device is a complete power management system, supporting the power regulation and battery charging functions. All of the chipsets will connect directly with the MSM3100 to form part of QUALCOMM's growing line of CDMA chips for subscriber applications.

QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies is the leading developer and supplier of CDMA chipsets, hardware and software solutions and tools with more than 30 million MSM chips shipped worldwide. The division supplies chipsets to the world's leading CDMA handset and infrastructure manufacturers including: ALPS ELECTRIC CO., LTD.; CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.; DENSO CORPORATION; FUJITSU LIMITED; Hitachi, Ltd.; Hyundai Electronics Industries Co., Ltd.; KYOCERA CORPORATION; LG Information and Communications, Ltd.; Samsung Electronics Ltd.; SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.; and Toshiba Corporation, among others.

QUALCOMM Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM) is a leader in developing and delivering innovative digital wireless communications products and services based on the Company's CDMA digital technology. The Company's major business areas include CDMA phones; integrated CDMA chipset and system software; wireless infrastructure; technology licensing; and satellite-based systems including OmniTRACS(R) and portions of the Globalstar™ system. QUALCOMM is headquartered in San Diego, Calif. QUALCOMM's fiscal 1998 revenues exceeded U.S. $3 billion. For more information, please visit the Company's web site at http://www.qualcomm.com.

Except for the historical information contained herein, this news Release contains forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties, including timely product development, the Company's ability to successfully manufacture significant quantities of CDMA or other equipment on a timely and profitable basis, and those related to performance guarantees, change in economic conditions of the various markets the Company serves, as well as the other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's SEC reports, including the report on Form 10-K for the year ended September 27, 1998, and most recent Form 10-Q.

Motorola Unveils Enhanced CDMA Products

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 8, 1999 -- Motorola, Inc.ís Network Solutions Sector (NSS) today unveiled two new, highly advanced Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) digital cellular base transceiver stations (BTS) including a compact and self-contained BTS that can be wall, pole, ceiling or rack mounted. The products include the new SC^™ 340, which is one of the worldís smallest CDMA PicoCells, and the SC 4812T, a trunked version of the worldís only six-sector BTS.

Motorola NSS will showcase its new SC 340 and SC 4812T cellular infrastructure products in booth 2523 during the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Associationís (CTIA) annual Wireless 1999 show.

The SC 340, Motorola NSSís newest picocellular BTS, is energy efficient, lightweight and designed for either indoor or outdoor installations. The BTS supports a single CDMA carrier and provides localized capacity and coverage solutions that enhance network performance. The versatile SC 340 can be used in a variety of applications such as: underground subway or tunnel applications, in-building solutions or enterprise applications where it can be used to supplement other Motorola NSS digital base stations.

Motorola NSS's new SC 340, one of the world's smallest PicoCells, weighs in at less than 33 pounds.

Motorola NSSís SC 340 BTS enables reduced installation costs with its Motorola-exclusive remote Global Positioning System (GPS) technology which extends the base station-to-GPS antenna distance to 2,000 feet. This technology eliminates the need for costly coaxial cable and in-line amplification for the GPS installation.

Two versions of the SC 340 BTS will be available differentiated by size and transmit power requirements: a PicoCell version, which weighs less than 15 kilograms (33 pounds) and a MicroCell version, which weighs less than 24 kilograms (53 pounds). The PicoCell can be utilized for low transmit power applications while the MicroCell can be deployed when high transmit power is required. Motorola NSS will deploy the first SC 340 in Japanís cellular market during 3Q 1999.

In addition to the SC 340 BTS, Motorola NSS will also introduce a trunked version of its SC 4812 base station during CTIA. The new SC 4812T is the industry's first compact, six-sector, multi-carrier capable CDMA base station with TrunkedPower technology.

Motorola NSS's exclusive TrunkedPower technology uses a new technique in which a bank of Linear Power Amplifiers (LPAs) is shared between multiple sectors within a SC 4812. The radio frequency power produced by an LPA is allocated between sectors based on the amount of call traffic, thereby increasing the number of calls served by the base station. Additional benefits of TrunkedPower technology include increased operational flexibility, efficient use of power and greater revenue generating capability.

Both the SC 340 and SC 4812T base stations will be shipped by Motorola NSS fully configured and tested, dramatically reducing an operatorís on-site installation time.

Unwired Planet Unveils UP.Smart Phone Application Suite Enabling Lightweight, Affordable SMARTPHONES

Featuring OS-Independent, PC-Synchronized Functionality with Address Book, Calendar, To-do List and Memo Applications

NEW ORLEANS, LA, Feb. 8, 1999 -- CTIA's WIRELESS '99 - Unwired Planet, Inc. (UP) unveiled UP.Smart, the new integrated suite of OS-independent smartphone software applications, that delivers the most popular PDA features to digital mobile phones.

Tightly integrated with UP.Browser, the Unwired Planet WAP-compatible microbrowser, UP.Smart enables instant access to locally stored personal information, as well as live access to Email, Internet- and intranet-based information services. The pioneer licensee of UP.Smart, Innovative Global Solution, Inc. (IGS), today demonstrated the first-to-market example of UP.Smart, the NeoPoint 1000, at a joint press conference with UP at CTIA's Wireless '99 show.

"Mobile professionals want a wireless phone with integrated, intuitive and easy-to-sync organizer applica-tions without sacrificing size, weight or battery life," said Alain Rossmann, chairman and chief executive officer of Unwired Planet. "UP.Smart provides a phone-centric solution which enables easy-to-use, single-handed operation."

UP.Browser in conjunction with UP.Smart allows manufacturers to deliver a device that performs the most popular functions of today's Personal Digital Assistants, without sacrificing the essential ergonomics and price-point of a mass-market phone-in other words, a "smartphone done right." UP.Smart's Address Book, Cal-endar, To-do List and Memo applications transform the phone into an indispensable companion for mobile users. To provide the synchronization solution between UP.Smart and PC-based personal infor-mation man-agement applications, Unwired Planet has partnered with Puma Technology:
® Utilizing Puma's Intellisync® software, users will be able to synchronize information stored by UP.Smart with information stored by Microsoft® Outlook, Symantec® ACT!,® Lotus Organizer® and other PIM software.
Optimized for single-handed use, UP.Smart equips users with rapid access to personal infor-mation while on the go. Any one of a thousand contacts can be located and dialed or Emailed at the push a button. Tight integration with Tegic's T9 text input system assures fast and easy text entry, giving users the ability to create appoint-ments or memos quickly. PC-synchronization assures changes made on the phone are reflected back on the PC, and vice versa.

"We're extremely excited to be working with Unwired Planet on UP.Smart," said Brad Rowe, president and chief executive officer of Puma Technology. "With the elegant UP.Smart phone application suite and our patented Intellisync synchronization solution, vendors will be able to provide the seamless integration to key PC applications that their mobile customers will require."

"UP.Smart achieves a significant move forward in device consolidation," said Terry Yu, vice president of product marketing and development for Sprint PCS. "We believe that adding productivity tools such as a microbrowser and personal organizer enhance our ability to deliver integrated voice and data services on the nation's largest, 100 percent digital, 100 percent PCS nationwide wireless network."

The UP.Smart phone application suite is available now for licensing from Unwired Planet, in conjunction with UP.Browser.

Metawave Expands Smart Antenna Offerings for CDMA Networks

Compatibility of SpotLight 2000 smart antenna system extended to include the Motorola SC 2450 base station

REDMOND, Wash., Feb. 8, 1999 -- Strengthening its position as a leader in CDMA smart antenna systems, Metawave® Communications Corp. today announced a new version of the company's SpotLight™ 2000 smart antenna system that will be compatible with the SC 2450, a CDMA base station from Motorola. SpotLight 2000 works with an operator's existing base stations to increase network capacity, thereby allowing operators to avoid new cell sites and delay network upgrades. SpotLight 2000 is a dual-mode CDMA/AMPS smart antenna system that is also available for the Lucent Series II, Motorola SC 9600, and Motorola HD II base stations.

"Metawave is committed to developing interfaces for SpotLight 2000 to all the leading CDMA base stations," said Dr. Marty Feuerstein, Metawave vice president of product management and advanced technology. "With the release of a SC 2450-compatible version of SpotLight 2000, our smart antenna product line is compatible with over 80 percent of the CDMA base stations installed in North America today."

In CDMA networks, SpotLight 2000 gives wireless operators control over traffic load leveling, the key to realizing the potential capacity gains CDMA can deliver. Using the system's proprietary Sector Synthesis™ technology, operators can configure cell sectorization patterns that balance traffic loads among sectors and, in doing so, can access capacity that previously sat idle in lightly loaded sectors. SpotLight 2000's load-leveling benefits can increase the capacity of CDMA cell sites by as much as 40 percent.

In addition, SpotLight 2000 offers a highly targeted approach to adding CDMA capacity that can save operators money as CDMA usage grows. Dr. Feuerstein emphasized: "Deploying another CDMA carrier frequency is an inefficient way to add capacity because it's typically forced by just a few concentrated areas of high usage. Operators can delay a costly, network-wide upgrade to another carrier frequency by using SpotLight 2000 to provide capacity relief exactly where it's needed, and to avoid buying capacity for sites where it's not."

SpotLight 2000 is a dual-mode CDMA/AMPS smart antenna system. The system's flexible configuration options allow operators to simultaneously integrate SpotLight 2000 with the Motorola SC 2450 and an analog base station, such as the Motorola HD II. Dual-mode SpotLight 2000 installations share a single physical antenna structure, but support different sector configurations for CDMA and AMPS service. Dual-mode systems also share SpotLight 2000's suite of multicarrier linear power amplifiers (LPAs), which features a power-pooling architecture that reduces LPA power requirements and increases system reliability.

Motorola Offers Over The Air Operations And Maintenance Center For Wireless Local Loop Customers

CDMA Operators Can Save Time and Expense On End-User Service Calls

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 8, 1999 -- Motorola, Inc.'s Network Solutions Sector (NSS) announced today it is offering digital cellular operators a new platform application which will give them more control over their CDMA wireless local loop systems. With the company's new Operations and Maintenance Center for Fixed Wireless Terminals (OMC-F) product, CDMA operators will have the ability to perform over-the-air functions - such as software downloads, service provisioning and diagnostics -on end-user devices. The announcement was made during the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association's annual Wireless 1999 show.

Wireless local loop systems, such as the WiLL® system from Motorola NSS, provide an efficient wireless method of accessing the public switched telephone network for both business and residential subscribers. Unlike mobile cellular systems, the end-user components in a WiLL® fixed wireless system - called Fixed Wireless Terminals - are considered part of the infrastructure and therefore can require routine maintenance. With the new OMC-F platform software from Motorola NSS, CDMA cellular operators can reduce the cost of system operations by almost eliminating the number of on-site service calls required for Fixed Wireless Terminals.
In total, the OMC-F solution from Motorola NSS enables CDMA operators to perform more than 25 diagnostic tests and a variety of software operations on Fixed Wireless Terminals - all remotely.

"To enable our CDMA WiLL® operators to compete with wireline service costs, the OMC-F solution was designed to reduce operators' cost-of-ownership by providing the ability to perform Operations and Maintenance features over-the-air," stated John Thode, director of Motorola NSS's WiLL® Systems Division. "Additionally, operators will be able to offer their customers a range of value-added upgrades via over-the-air downloads. We believe this will be a compelling solution for managing the total product life cycle."

Lucent Technologies Makes It Easier for Service Providers to Offer the Best Sound Quality

Hansol PCS improves efficiency and cost-effectiveness

NEW ORLEANS Feb. 8, 1999 -- Lucent Technologies announced a new network remote management system enabling noise-free and echo-free calls using Lucent's patented Studio Sound™ technology for wireless and wireline networks. Hansol PCS of Korea is the first company to have the new software installed in its CDMA network. Studio Sound is the foundation of Lucent's Echo Canceller and Voice Enhancement System, which removes echo and background noise to improve the quality of wireless and wireline calls. The new software for this system makes it possible for service providers to monitor these "echo canceller" networks remotely, rather than travelling to each central office or mobile switching center for service. With a simple software load to the system, service providers will be able to save time and money as they keep their networks running smoothly.

The software enhancements, called the EchoScan Remote Management System and the EchoView Remote Access System, will be shown at CTIA '99 here this week. Hansol PCS, one of Korea's three licensed nationwide Personal Communications Services (PCS) operators, serves 1.4 million subscribers. More than 300,000 subscribers in the Kyungnam and Kyungbuk areas are enjoying the quality network based on Lucent's 5ESS® Switch-based Mobile Switching Centers and CDMA PCS minicell base stations.

Hansol's president, Mr. Jung Yong-moon, said: "Being able to access the echo cancellers from remote locations saves time and money. Lucent Technologies is making it easier to offer the best quality. Quality is of primary importance to Hansol as we strongly believe that our subscribers should have the best that the market can offer."

"This software enhancement is especially attractive for service providers running large networks that span a distance," said Clarke Ryan, president of Lucent Echo Solutions. "Handling administration remotely makes it easier to offer service in new markets."

The new EchoScan Remote Management System and the EchoView Remote Access System enables LAN or modem connections from ordinary computers, eliminating the need to be hard-wired to switching equipment. From any location in the world, service providers will be able to monitor and provision Lucent networks with simple point-and-click interfaces, performing administration tasks such as checking alarms, fixing communication errors, changing parameters, testing systems, or provisioning lines for echo cancellation. Lucent's Echo Canceller and Voice Enhancement System helps voices come across clearer and richer by adjusting the call to overcome network or environmental conditions, from background noise to fluctuating signal strengths, that could interfere with the transmission. The system, a shelf-mounted unit designed for interconnection with switching equipment, reduces operations costs to the carrier by packing many channels into a single shelf. It combines all of Lucent's state-of-the-art echo cancellation features into one high-density unit with five times greater capacity than previously available in the same size space.

Nortel Networks, Metapath Introduce OA&M Solutions for DMS-MTX SuperNode

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 8, 1999 -- Nortel Networks and Metapath Software International (MSI) have introduced a suite of integrated OA&M solutions for Nortel Networks' DMS*-MTX* SuperNode* digital mobile cellular switching systems, allowing AMPS, TDMA and CDMA wireless carriers to adapt multi-vendor networks quickly and cost-effectively to subscriber needs. These customer-adaptive solutions include the Maxxer* network performance management tool, the Ceos* real time mediation manager and the Cerve* subscriber service provisioning platform, all proven products which Nortel Networks will offer under a multi-year value-added reseller agreement with MSI.

"The end game is to make our operators the most successful and competitive in the market," said Alastair Westgarth, vice-president, product line management, Wireless Solutions, Nortel Networks. "These products will reduce operations costs, accelerate time-to-market and maximize network investment by allowing operators to define and provision services based on actual customer use."

The agreement, announced at CTIA's Wireless '99, includes global product service and support and portends the future development and integration of additional OA&M solutions for the DMS-MTX. Nortel Networks is already among the world's largest users of Planet*, MSI's popular software tool for RF planning and analysis.

"This continues a mutually beneficial relationship between MSI and Nortel Networks, and provides valuable benefits for customer-focused wireless carriers as well," said Tom Butler, chief executive officer, MSI. MSI is the new name for Mobile Systems International and Metapath Software Corporation following the merger of the two companies in 1998. MSI is a leading provider of integrated, enterprise-wide software solutions, including real-time network planning, mediation, customer relationship management and service provisioning systems. MSI's products and services enable wireless telecommunications operators worldwide to reduce operating costs, enhance cash flow and revenue, and build customer loyalty through customer-adaptive practices. MSI helps operators to maximize the benefits of its systems through the provision of leading edge consulting services and on-going technical service, support and training. MSI has over 650 employees worldwide with offices in London (HQ), Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Hong Kong, New Delhi, Paris, Sao Paulo, Seattle, Singapore, Stockholm, Sydney and Washington DC, as well as agent and distributor relationships covering the world.

QUALCOMM Announces New QCTest Network Optimization Tool

*Version 2.0 of QUALCOMM's QCTest™ CDMA Air Interface Tester (CAIT)

Released for Windows 95/98/NT

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 8, 1999 -- QUALCOMM Incorporated, pioneer and world leader of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) digital wireless technology, today announced the release of version 2.0 of the QCTest™ CDMA Air Interface Tester (CAIT), a network optimization software package for field test engineers. When installed on a laptop running Windows® 95/98/NT that is connected to a QUALCOMM CDMA handset via a serial data cable, CAIT 2.0 provides field engineers a portable, wireless testing and analysis tool to support the design, development, test and deployment of CDMA networks.

Expected to become available the first half of 1999, CAIT 2.0 generates real-time graphical displays of CDMA over-the-air signals such as pilot information, transmit and receive power, vocoder rates, frame error rate data and a variety of other system statistics. CAIT 2.0 also provides complete support for QUALCOMM's Retriever™ pilot scanner/test phone, whose functions complement CAIT 2.0. As a scanner, the Retriever product can check all 512 PNs (cell sector numbers) in less than 2.0 seconds, then provide programmable on-screen views of PNs, Ec/Io (signal clarity), and neighbor list violations. As a test phone, the Retriever product allows network engineers to change over-the-air parameters in the phone without disturbing the network.

Finally, as a standard, dual-mode digital wireless handset, the Retriever product allows field engineers to stay in touch with their home offices and other field personnel.

"CAIT 2.0 offers carriers unique mobile capabilities for testing their networks," said Gina Lombardi, vice president of product development for QUALCOMM Consumer Products. "With its easy-to-use Windows-based interface, extremely accurate data logging and direct support for QUALCOMM's Retrieve pilot scanner/test phone, CAIT 2.0 represents an exceptionally useful CDMA digital data collection tool."

CAIT 2.0 provides real-time, over-the-air analysis and logging of critical system parameters and offers secure, robust data collection with the ability to close and restart data files automatically based on time or file size. To make the data collected more accessible and easy to use, CAIT 2.0 translates binary log files into text. CAIT 2.0 can also simultaneously log data from multiple phones and provides audible alarms that indicate loss of connection or Global Positioning System (GPS) information.

With more than 15 user-selectable screens, CAIT 2.0 also provides customized views of CDMA digital over-the-air data including phone state, PN offsets and pilot power. Over-the-air system performance can be correlated with time, speed and position/location when utilizing CAIT's serial Global Positioning System/Dead Reckoning (GPS/DR) interface. CAIT 2.0 also logs mobile-based binary data that can be post-processed using any tools that read QUALCOMM's Diagnostic Monitor (DM) file format.

QUALCOMM Signs Agreement to Form Alliance with Matsushita Electronics Components

*Matsushita to Manufacture CRM3000 CDMA Radio Modules

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 8, 1999 -- QUALCOMM Incorporated, pioneer and world leader of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) digital wireless technology, today announced it has signed an agreement with Matsushita Electronic Components Co. Ltd., contemplating the formation of an alliance for the development and manufacture of the new CRM3000™ CDMA Radio Modules (CRMs).

"Our alliance with Matsushita Electronics Components will be aimed at enabling a broader array of applications to utilize CDMA technology," said Don Schrock, president of QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies. "QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies' proven experience in chip and software design, coupled with Matsushita Electronics Components' expertise in radio circuitry modules, are expected to provide our customers with an alternative way to access our leading solutions through simplified RF design."

"We are excited about the opportunity to work with QUALCOMM to provide solutions to the broad range of existing CDMA equipment manufacturers as well as to new entrants into the market," said Keisuke Utsunomiya, general manager, HFPD, Matsushita Electronics Components Co., Ltd. "The worldwide CDMA market is expanding rapidly. By leveraging Matsushita's Radio Frequency (RF) technologies in building high quality RF modules for the consumer industry into CDMA applications, customers can quickly get a new product ready for production."

These highly compact pre-tested CRMs will contain complete RF circuitry for CDMA handsets and interface with QUALCOMM's MSM3000™ chip, enabling very fast design and manufacture of CDMA subscriber products, even with limited in-house RF design resources.

The normal design effort and know-how associated with the radio section will be simplified and development tasks will be streamlined for all CDMA-based wireless communications solutions. In addition, the small footprint of the new CRM will allow customers to utilize them in a wide variety of small form-factor devices.

In addition to cellular handsets, other CDMA-based applications for the CRM3000 modules will include smartphones, PDAs, personal computers, PC cards, telemetry and monitoring equipment, and a variety of data transmission equipment. The new CRM3000 module will be on display at the CTIA '99 trade show in New Orleans, La. this week in QUALCOMM's booth, number 3125.

Initial shipment of the modules is anticipated in late 1999.

Features of the CRM3000 modules will include:

*All transmit and receive signal processing circuitry from baseband through RF;

*QUALCOMM's IFT3000™ and IFR3000™ fully integrated Intermediate Frequency (IF) chipset in Bump Chip Carrier (BCC) packages which Interface with the MSM3000;

*Compliance with various CDMA systems, including IS-95/98, J-STD-008/018, ARIB-T53;

*High density mounting and ultra-miniature Surface Mount Device (SMD) components; and

*Supply voltage compatibility for platforms utilizing a single-cell Lithium-Ion (Li-Ion) battery design.

The CRM3000 modules will provide numerous advantages for customers:

*Significantly reduced development and production lead times-Full advance verification of radio performance allows handset
manufacturers to efficiently utilize their radio engineering resources to pursue additional development efforts concurrently and to substantially shorten overall product development cycles;

*A complete CDMA wireless air interface functional module-The fully functional modules will be designed to utilize the capabilities of the MSM3000 chipset and software;

*Small handset design-Matsushita's high-density mounting technology and its small SMD components offer an extremely compact radio design solution, giving manufacturers greater flexibility in the design and development of their handsets; and

*Certified quality assurance and reliability for volume production--Matsushita's quality assurance system ensures the consistency of performance necessary for high reliability and production yield of the CRM.

QUALCOMM Introduces Next-Generation CDMA RF and Analog Chipsets; Advanced CDMA RF Transmit and Receive System Solution Launched

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 8, 1999 -- QUALCOMM Incorporated, pioneer and world leader of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) digital wireless technology, today announced the introduction of its next-generation series of Radio Frequency (RF) and analog chips. Components of the complete CDMA chipset solution for QUALCOMM's next generation MSM3100™ baseband processing chip include the RFT3100™ transmit (Tx) and RFR3100™ receive (Rx) processors featuring unmatched savings in board area with significant reductions in power consumption over previous generations. Also introduced today is the PM1000™ power management chip, which provides battery supervision and charging functions, programmable voltage regulation, and integration of other collateral support functionality for CDMA handset applications. The new chipsets will operate directly with QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies' newest MSM3100 baseband processing solution and together form the most complete CDMA transmit/receive and power management chipset solution to-date.

Breakthrough new CDMA RF systems and process technology has been applied to the development and enabled these new devices to provide unmatched area and power savings. State of the art Silicon Germanium (SiGe) process technology is used to achieve superior RF receiver performance and integration. The complete solution including the MSM3100 chipset and software provides a highly efficient and fully compliant IS-95A or IS-95B CDMA handset solution.

The RFT3100 and RFR3100 chipset is designed for transmit and receive compatibility with cellular as well as Personal Communications Service (PCS) frequency bands covering global CDMA markets.

"CDMA products based on the MSM 3100 series chipset solution, utilizing new technologies like SiGe, will set the new standard of excellence for worldwide wireless subscriber equipment," said Johan Lodenius, vice president of marketing for QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies. "This enables handset manufacturers to design a new generation of significantly smaller and lighter multi-band handsets with very long standby times and rich data capabilities at lower production costs."

RFT3100 Transmit Processor
The RFT3100 Baseband-to-RF Transmit Processor performs all Transmit signal processing functions required between digital baseband and the power amplifier (PA) for IS-95 CDMA cellular and PCS single-band and dual-band applications. It connects directly to the MSM3100 chip utilizing an analog baseband interface, which is upconverted to the cellular or PCS frequency bands with the required output power to drive the PA.

The RFT3100 transmit processor offers the most advanced and integrated CDMA Transmit solution available today, providing a printed circuit board area savings of more than 65 percent over previous generation chipsets and optimized power savings for extended talk-time performance. It incorporates the previous generation functionality of the IFT3000™ Baseband-to-IF Processor together with the transmit processing of the QUALCOMM UD3000 IF to RF transmit converter all in an ultra small 32-pin bump chip carrier (BCC++) plastic package. The RFT3100 chip is fabricated in an advanced BiCMOS process which enables both precision high-frequency analog circuits and low-power CMOS functions.

RFR3100 Receive Processor
The RFR3100 RF-to-IF Receive Processor offers the most advanced and integrated CDMA receive solution designed to meet cascaded Noise Figure (NF) and Third-order Intercept Point (IIP3) requirements of IS-98 and JSTD-018 specifications for sensitivity, two-tone intermodulation, and single-tone desense. It performs all of the front-end receive (Rx) signal processing required between the antenna and the QUALCOMM IFR3000™ IF-to-Baseband Processor for IS-95 CDMA cellular and PCS single-band and dual-band applications. The RFR3100 processor integrates dual-band Low Noise Amplifiers (LNAs) and mixers for downconversion from RF to CDMA and FM Intermediate Frequency (IF), and together with the IFR3000 chip, comprise a complete RF-to-Baseband chipset solution for the Rx path. This device is fabricated on an advanced silicon germanium (SiGe) BiCMOS process which enables low-noise, high-linearity, high-frequency analog circuits along with low-power CMOS functions, and will be available in a 32-pin BCC++ plastic package.

PM1000 Power Management Chip
The PM1000 chip is a complete power management system device. For CDMA mobile handset applications whose primary functions provide battery management and charger control as well as linear voltage regulation with programmable voltages for digital and RF/analog circuits. The battery management includes over-voltage and over-current protection, low battery alarm and accurate battery gas gauge. The charger control includes fast charge and trickle charge modes for Lithium-Ion (Li-Ion) and Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH) batteries. The voltage regulation includes power-on reset control.

In addition to the power management functions, the PM1000 chip also contains a variety of collateral support functionality including a keyboard backlight driver, Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) backlight driver, ringer/buzzer driver, a vibrator driver, support for electro-luminescent display driver, a Real Time Clock, and general purpose Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC).

All PM1000 operating modes and functionality can be controlled by the MSM3100's microprocessor through its three wire Serial Bus Interface (SBI). This chip will be available in a 64 plastic ball grid array (PBGA) package. QUALCOMM will begin sample shipping the RFT3100, RFR3100, and PM1000 to customers in the third quarter of 1999; production quantities are expected to be available in the fourth quarter of 1999.
QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies is the leading developer and supplier of CDMA chipsets, hardware and software solutions and tools with more than 30 million MSM chips shipped worldwide. The division supplies chipsets to the world's leading CDMA handset and infrastructure manufacturers including:

ALPS ELECTRIC CO., LTD.; CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.; DENSO CORPORATION; FUJITSU LIMITED; Hitachi, Ltd.; Hyundai Electronics Industries Co., Ltd.; KYOCERA CORPORATION; LG Information and Communications, Ltd.; Samsung Electronics Ltd.; SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.; and Toshiba Corporation, among others.

QUALCOMM Introduces New CDMA Digital Phone Accessories

*New Accessory Line Provides Expanded Versatility for QUALCOMM CDMA Handsets

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 8, 1999 -- QUALCOMM Incorporated pioneer and world leader of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) digital wireless technology, today announced the introduction of a new range of accessories that provide expanded capabilities to the entire line of QUALCOMM CDMA phones. The new accessories include a data connectivity kit, two new hands-free car kits, a desktop charger for QUALCOMM's new Thin Phone that can charge three batteries simultaneously and three new hands-free headsets. For more information on QUALCOMM's accessories, visit the QUALCOMM Store, an Internet-based retail shop at http://www.qualcomm.com/store.

"Our new accessory line provides added functionality and greater ease of use for consumers whose active lifestyle makes their QUALCOMM phone a key communications tool," said Gina Lombardi, vice president of product development for QUALCOMM Consumer Products. "All of QUALCOMM's new hands-free car kits, including the voice-activated model, support enhanced user operations. In addition, the new data connectivity kit provides mobile professionals with a true wireless link to meet their communication needs."

Data Connectivity Kit
The QUALCOMM data connectivity kit includes a phone-to-PC cable and Windows-based software that uses an industry-standard format, allowing users to transfer phone numbers seamlessly to any QUALCOMM phone from a variety of contact manager programs such as Microsoft Outlook™, Symantec ACT!®, Lotus Notes and PalmPilot™ desktop databases.

Users can drag and drop names and phone numbers from a PC directly to the phone, allowing them to create and store multiple phone lists easily. A salesperson, for example, could create separate phone lists for weekly contacts, daily to-do-list numbers and personal phone numbers. New phone numbers can be entered into the handset quickly with the Speed Dial Manager feature, and backup copies of the handset phone lists can be stored securely on a user's computer.

When a QUALCOMM phone is connected to a laptop, the software allows incoming call messages to be silently displayed on the laptop's screen. In wireless markets where CDMA data services are available, the software can configure the QUALCOMM phone as a wireless modem to provide remote access to email and the Internet. The data connectivity kit is designed to work with the QUALCOMM Q™ phone, QCP™ series and the QUALCOMM Thin Phone.

Voice-Activated, Hands-Free Car Kit
QUALCOMM's new installable car kit, designed specifically for the QUALCOMM

Thin Phone, uses voice-recognition to provide hands-free operation
Of any QUALCOMM phone. Consumers can use the voice-recognition system to add and delete phone number entries, and initiate and answer calls through voice commands alone. The kit also automatically mutes most car stereos when a call is received. In addition, the kit provides rapid battery recharge capabilities and full duplex operation, while its sleek new cradle requires minimal installation space in a car's interior.

Portable Hands-Free Car Kit
The portable hands-free car kit is tailored for the new QUALCOMM Thin Phone models, the QCP-860™ and QCP-1960™ handsets. The kit, which requires no installation aside from plugging it into the cigarette lighter port, provides full duplex operation, an external microphone, volume control and rapid battery charging. When the user moves to another vehicle,
the device easily unplugs for quick and convenient transport.

Dual-port Desk Charger
The dual-port desk charger is designed specifically for the new QUALCOMM Thin Phone models, the QCP-860 and QCP-1960 handsets. The charger can simultaneously recharge up to three batteries at once, with the phone's internal battery and an attached external battery in its front port and an additional external battery pack on its rear port. The desk charger provides an LED status indicator for the rear port. The front port charge status is displayed by the phone itself.

Headsets
Three new headsets that are compatible with the QUALCOMM Q phone, QCP series and the Thin Phone will become available in the first half of 1999.

With the headset adapter, these headsets allow the user to listen and talk while keeping their hands free for other tasks. The new compatible headsets are:

*Plantronics CHS142N -- hearing aid-compatible, noise-cancelling boom microphone
*Plantronics CHS132N -- lightweight (less than 1/3 ounce) noise- cancelling microphone
*Jabra EarSet -- combined earpiece and microphone, very lightweight (1/10 ounce).

QUALCOMM and Cisco Systems Team with U S WEST to Implement High-Speed Wireless Internet Access Trials

First Trials of QUALCOMM's Highly Efficient HDR Solution to Begin in April

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 8, 1999 -- QUALCOMM Incorporated today announced that it would conduct trials of its High Data Rate (HDR) solution with U S WEST Wireless, LLC. HDR delivers very high-speed Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) wireless Internet access at peak data rates greater than 1.8 Megabits per second (Mbps), with even higher speeds expected in the future. HDR provides a cost-effective solution for wireless operators, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), cable companies and existing landline service providers who wish to expand their customer base with high-speed Internet access, using a standard 1.25 Megahertz (MHz) channel.

"With the rapidly growing demand for high-speed Internet access from home, the office and on the road, HDR provides a fast and cost-effective wireless CDMA solution for market segments that may be difficult or expensive to reach via traditional operator or cable networks," said Jeffrey A. Jacobs, vice president of corporate business development for QUALCOMM. "QUALCOMM is excited to leverage Cisco Systems' data networking expertise to offer wireless, high-speed Internet access to U S WEST's customers."

The trials with U S WEST mark the first field deployment of this leading-edge technology. U S WEST's HDR trials will incorporate evaluations of HDR's air-link performance and advanced feature sets, as well as HDR's decentralized Internet Protocol (IP)-based architecture and highly integrated access points.

The laboratory phase of the trials is expected to begin in April 1999. A live demonstration of HDR technology is also being showcased at QUALCOMM's booth, number 3125, at the CTIA Wireless '99 show in New Orleans, La. This week. Integrated access points, which provide the over-the-air link between the consumer's handset and the IP network, will utilize 800 MHz or 1900 MHz CDMA wireless infrastructure equipment developed by QUALCOMM. QUALCOMM is supplying the HDR subscriber stations, as well as engineering and deployment services for the trials. QUALCOMM's HDR solution utilizes switching and routing technology from Cisco Systems, which will interconnect the access points and provide direct connections to the Internet. IP mobility and security services are supported through Cisco IOS® software.

HDR leverages cdmaOne™ technology and cost curves, affording operators the lowest cost and a "fast time to market" migration path to offering megabit-speed wireless Internet access to consumers.

HDR is designed to enable existing cdmaOne service providers to obtain higher capacities and superior performance by optimizing voice and data spectrum separately, while serving both applications from the same network. In addition, HDR offers an efficient solution for service providers utilizing other wireless technologies, as HDR's architecture does not necessitate a pre-existing cdmaOne network. HDR can be deployed as a separate data network or with an existing telecommunications network.

Using the new HDR technology, consumers will have the potential to download data from the Internet at peak speeds of up to 25 times faster than today's 56 kilobits per second (kbps) wireline modems. HDR delivers more efficient Internet access, e-mail, data transfers and messaging applications while handling multimedia applications, such as audio and video file transfers, which require high data transfer speeds. The HDR initiative is a part of QUALCOMM's overall strategy to provide wireless operators with a variety of solutions to evolve their networks to offer third generation services.

U S WEST (NYSE:USW) provides a full range of telecommunications Services including wireline, wireless PCS, data networking, directory and information services-to more than 25 million customers nationally and in 14 western and Midwestern states. More information about U S WEST can be found on the Internet at http://www.uswest.com.

QUALCOMM Introduces New Generation of CDMA Base Stations Offering Macrocell Performance in a Microcell Package

*U S WEST to Deploy QCell 600 for PCS Network Expansion

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 8, 1999 -- QUALCOMM Incorporated today unveiled the QCell™ 600 series, a new generation of cdmaOne™ base stations that offer macrocell performance in a microcell package. The versatile QCell 600 series was designed with direct input from industry-leading wireless operators, resulting in a product that addresses the business and technical requirements of cellular and PCS service providers worldwide.

"What's unique about QUALCOMM's QCell 600 product is its adaptability in terms of meeting specific, real-world market requirements," said Wayne Leuck, vice president of Wireless Engineering Technology for U S WEST Wireless. "As an operator, we chose this product because it addresses a broad range of concerns, including cost, performance, deployment flexibility and evolution to the next generation of wireless services."

"The QCell 600 series is the result of aligning the best CDMA developers in the industry with the needs of the market place," said Jerry Beckwith, president of QUALCOMM Wireless Systems. "Developed to directly improve operator profitability by decreasing the initial capital expense for network deployment and lowering recurring monthly operating expenses, the QCell 600 can significantly reduce per site installation and maintenance costs."

"The new QCell 600 series base stations are the first of their kind to provide conventional three-sector macrocell performance in a footprint that is dramatically smaller and about one-fourth the weight," added Beckwith. The QCell 600 series provides operators with a clear migration path to third-generation CDMA2000™ services. Operators now have a cost-effective upgrade path that protects their initial capital investment and evolves their network from current voice and data capabilities to one that will accommodate high-speed multimedia services in the future.

The QCell 600 consists of three remote Radio Frequency (RF) units and one main unit, each roughly the size of a backpack, delivering the capacity and coverage of a three-sector macrocell, which can be as large as two full-size refrigerators side-by-side. The new base stations accommodate 160 channel elements and 15 Watts of RF output power per sector. The base station can be configured with one, two or three sectors, or as an omni-cell with multiple carriers.

Entirely self-contained and environmentally designed to withstand extreme weather conditions, the QCell 600 series is ideal for wall or pole-mounted installations. In addition, the QCell 600 series' compact design simplifies commissioning and zoning approvals, enabling operators to offer commercial service faster.

Fully configured, the base station uses a maximum of 925 Watts, less than a typical hair dryer uses. The lower power consumption contributes to reduced operating expenses for carriers.

The new QCell 600 is also factory-sealed and calibrated for rapid commissioning, making optimization in the field faster and easier. The integrated web-based configuration tool is designed to facilitate site installation and commissioning without special test equipment. In addition, improved operations allow for new applications to be downloaded rapidly. The QCell 600 series is being showcased in QUALCOMM's booth, number 3125, at the CTIA '99 show in New Orleans, La., this week. The first products are expected to be commercially deployed in the second half of 1999.

QUALCOMM Introduces PureVoice VR Voice Recognition Solution for CDMA Handsets

*Software For QUALCOMM's CDMA Chipsets Provides Manufacturers with Powerful Speech Recognition Capabilities

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 8, 1999 -- QUALCOMM Incorporated, pioneer and world leader of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) digital wireless technology, today introduced its advanced speech recognition technology for the MSM3000™ Mobile Station Modem™ (MSM™) platform. The PureVoice VR™ voice recognition software allows manufacturers to quickly add powerful speech capabilities to CDMA handsets without additional hardware. The software was designed specifically for dual-mode cellular and Personal Communications Service (PCS) handset applications and is expected to be available to handset manufacturers beginning the second calendar quarter 1999.

"PureVoice VR is performance and size optimized for use with our MSM architectures and development environment. By providing an integrated application solution, manufacturers can quickly add voice recognition functions to enhance their handset user interface," said Johan Lodenius, vice president of marketing for QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies. "For a very low cost, handset manufacturers can now offer the hands-free features demanded by mobile consumers that may be required for compliance with stricter automotive usage safety requirements."

The melding of the outstanding voice quality of QUALCOMM's PureVoice™ CDMA speech technology, and its new PureVoice VR voice recognition solution, is the next step in enhanced functionality for CDMA handsets. QUALCOMM's voice recognition solution provides the convenience and safety of hands-free voice dialing, meeting the immediate and future needs for advanced audio user interfaces for mobile environments.

QUALCOMM's PureVoice VR software delivers a complete, high-quality voice recognition solution, including: speaker-dependent speech recognition, speaker-independent control words, voice recording/memo and speech prompting.

The software is an add-on option for the MSM3000 system software and uses the Voice Services Application Program Interface (API) which enables manufacturers to quickly and easily add the various voice recognition features into their latest products. With no additional hardware required, the option is an affordable feature that helps manufacturers differentiate their products.

QUALCOMM's industry-leading MSM3000, the fifth-generation single-chipset and system software, began production shipping on schedule in December 1998. The low-power chipset and system software enable design of small form-factor handsets with 200 hours of stand-by time, support for data rates up to 86.4 kilobits per second (kbps) as well as the delivery of hands-free operation and dialing. Furthermore, PureVoice VR software will offer existing, as well as more advanced, features for the next generation MSM3100™ chipset and future generations of QUALCOMM CDMA chipsets.

QUALCOMM's PureVoice VR Software Overview
QUALCOMM's voice recognition software provides speech Recognition and speech prompting technologies for adding name dialing for cellular and PCS handsets. It also offers easy-to-use voice memo functionality.

Voice Dialing with Name Confirmation
The speaker-dependent voice dialing feature supports an entire voice dialing telephone directory, including voice recognition template, name or word recording and telephone number. This voice directory is designed for seamless integration with a manufacturer's existing telephone directory, leading to a natural user interface. Through the use of speech prompts, the user can quickly create a voice recognition template and audio recording of the desired name or word. To dial, the user simply speaks the name or word; the number is then automatically dialed. Before dialing, the recorded name or word can be played back for confirmation. Approximately 30 names or words can be stored in a single phone directory with multiple telephone numbers possible per name. English, Korean and Japanese languages will be supported initially.

Voice Memo
Voice memo allows the digital recording of audio information by the user for playback at a later time. Additionally, voice recognition may be incorporated by the handset manufacturer to control the recording and playback functions. Users can playback and manage memos in any order.

Speech Prompting
Manufacturers can include speech prompts to guide the user Through the operation of telephone functions. These prompts are generated from pre-recorded and compressed phrases using a minimum of storage resources.

QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies is the leading developer and supplier of CDMA chipsets, hardware and software solutions and tools with more than 30 million MSM chips shipped worldwide. The division supplies chipsets to the world's leading CDMA handset and infrastructure manufacturers including: ALPS ELECTRIC CO., LTD.; CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.; DENSO CORPORATION; FUJITSU LIMITED; Hitachi, Ltd.; Hyundai Electronics Industries Co., Ltd.; KYOCERA CORPORATION; LG Information and Communications, Ltd.; Samsung Electronics Ltd.; SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.; and Toshiba Corporation, among others.

QUALCOMM Announces Sixth Generation CDMA Single-Chip Modem Solution

New CDMA Chipset Solution Provides a 50 Percent Reduction in Size While Increasing Standby Time to 300 Hours

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 8, 1999 -- QUALCOMM Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM), pioneer and world leader of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) digital wireless technology, today announced the introduction of the MSM3100™, the company's sixth generation single-chip Mobile Station Modem™ (MSM™) baseband processing solution. This New generation chipset and system software solution features a 50 percent reduction in chip size and up to 300 hours of standby time.

"Our business is to work closely with the industry to define, develop and deliver on future needs for wireless communication," said Don Schrock, president of QUALCOMM's CDMA Technologies. "With the introduction of the sixth-generation MSM3100 chipset and software, we are taking our proven CDMA solutions to the next level of integration and cost savings while adding support for new high performance voice and data processing features. Combined with new tools and our world-class technical support staff, this ensures continued industry leading phone development times for our customers."

The MSM3100 chipset and software enable design of a new generation of CDMA handsets and data devices with rich feature sets and industry-leading performance. Higher on-chip integration now includes the addition of analog cores such as a 13-bit linear audio-codec, PLL, DAC's and ADC's. This facilitates a 50 percent size reduction of the printed circuit board area as well as a significantly reduced part count and lower bill-of-materials cost.

With new system software and hardware for enhanced system power control, stand-by times will also be approximately 50 percent higher than previous generation solutions. The MSM3100 chip incorporates advanced digital signal processing (DSP) functions, a Universal Serial Bus (USB) high speed data interface and support for additional CDMA Designer™ development tools. These enhancements allow phone manufacturers to further innovate and differentiate their CDMA handsets while reducing time-to-revenue.

New features include:

Enhanced voice recognition, such as Continuous digit dialing and support for large speaker independent libraries; and on-chip acoustic echo cancellation, eliminating the need for additional costly hardware in automotive, PC and other speaker phone applications. A Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface enables effective interconnection to desktop, laptop and Palm PC devices for much higher speed multimedia data transfers and software synchronization. The MSM3100 chip will also be the first baseband modem in the world to offer on-chip hardware support for in-phone Global Positioning System (GPS)-based CDMA position and location services which provides manufacturers with a cost-effective and integrated solution for the upcoming FCC mandate for emergency location tracking (E911).

"This is our most powerful chip to date," said Johan Lodenius, vice president of marketing for QUALCOMM's CDMA Technologies. "The MSM3100 solution provides a comprehensive set of advanced features with supporting tools as well as a robust and proven software package. This will enable CDMA handset manufactures to create a wide array of products with unprecedented functionality, form factors and operating performance."

Features of the MSM3100 Chip Include:
--QUALCOMM's newly developed integrated QDSP2000 digital signal processing (DSP) core, easily enables the additional performance requirement for advanced features such as voice recognition, GPS-based position location, speech compression, acoustic echo cancellation, noise suppression, and other audio enhancements. Acoustic echo cancellation support in the QDSP2000 core eliminates the need for DSP's in car-kits for additional cost savings.

--The QDSP2000 core features 40-bit computation units and datapaths, up to five operational executions in parallel, variable-length instructions to conserve program memory, and single-cycle instruction execution for computations. The powerful QDSP2000 consumes less power with better performance and only requires 8 Mips for Enhanced Variable Rate Coder (EVRC) execution, versus competitive digital signal processors requiring more than 20 Mips. A complete GUI-based software development toolkit for Sun and PC platforms is available for customized features.

--The integrated industry-standard ARM7 TDMI(R) microprocessor offering much higher performance with lower power consumption and smaller relative compiled-code size. The ARM7 is ideal for support of manufacturer application demands today as well as for the future. To facilitate software development the ARM peripherals have been customized by QUALCOMM to facilitate in-phone debugging capabilities of production handsets. ARM software tools are available directly from QUALCOMM to assist manufacturers with software development.

--Support for CDMA position location services utilizing GPS-based technology. This provides manufacturers with a cost effective and highly-integrated solution for the upcoming FCC E911 mandate.

--IS-95B compliant demodulator architecture, to support simultaneous demodulation of up to six or eight channels, depending on the rate-set used, for a maximum speed of 86.4 kilobits per second (kbps).

--Various analog cores are integrated onto the MSM3100 chip, reducing the number of handset components for substantial cost savings and reduction of PCB area. Included on the chip are: A 13-bit linear audio voice codec with Automatic Gain Control (AGC) function and integrated earphone amplifiers; PLL for support of various TCXO frequencies; on-chip voltage regulators for a single 2.5 volt (v) input interface that support internal chip voltages as low as 1.8 v; dual 8-bit transmit IQ DAC's which simplify the interface to the transmit Radio Frequency (RF) chain; and ADC's for battery and temperature monitoring. This level of integration enables shrinking of the printed circuit board by 50 percent for a very cost effective and low power design.

--A new enhanced sleep controller for both CDMA and AMPS modes will cut power consumption significantly in the MSM chip and for the entire phone. For example, an estimated 300 hours of stand-by time can be achieved in CDMA mode.

--Multiple serial interfaces including: Universal Asynchronous Receive Transmits (UARTs) for data communications as well as diagnostic monitoring; QUALCOMM developed Serial Bus Interface (SBI) for low speed control of RF and peripheral devices for power management; and USB for easy interconnection to a PC or car kit. With the greatly increasing popularity of USB in the PC marketplace, this interface is ideal for plug and play mobile phone connections to PC's and consumer appliances.

--An optimized system software solution which is fully compliant with dual-mode cellular and Personal Communications Service (PCS) band IS-95B specifications. The software includes a full suite of Internet protocols for fast development of data applications and ships fully tested and integrated into QUALCOMM's CDMA development tools for fast and flexible customer development.

QUALCOMM's MSM3100 chip interfaces directly with the IFR3000™ chip, the RFR3100™ and RFT3100™ chips, QUALCOMM's next generation fully Integrated Intermediate Frequency (IF) chipset and the new PM1000™ power Management chip.

System development software, verification, test, debug, calibration, manufacturing and field test support are available using the CDMA Designer development tools reducing time to market for a complete CDMA handset. Target applications include very small voice, high data rate and advanced user interface subscriber units for multi-mode cellular and PCS CDMA services.

The MSM3100 chip will be fabricated in a 0.18 um Leff process at 2.5V plus/minus 10% in 0.8mm ball pitch 208-pin Fine Pitched Ball Grid Array (FBGA) package. For maximum current savings, the internal cores of the chip will operate down to 1.8 v. The 208-pin FBGA package is in a four-perimeter-rows-of-solder-balls (P4) configuration making circuit routing and assembly easier and enabling the use of cost effective printed circuit boards. Sample shipment to customers will begin in the third quarter of 1999 with production volumes starting by the end of the year.

QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies is the leading developer and supplier of CDMA chipsets, hardware and software solutions and tools with more than 30 million MSM chips shipped worldwide. The division supplies chipsets to the world's leading CDMA handset and infrastructure manufacturers including: ALPS ELECTRIC CO., LTD.; CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.; DENSO CORPORATION; FUJITSU LIMITED; Hitachi, Ltd.; Hyundai Electronics Industries Co., Ltd.; KYOCERA CORPORATION; LG Information and Communications, Ltd.; Samsung Electronics Ltd.; SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.; and Toshiba Corporation, among others.

ALLGON Reaches Sales Referral Agreement with Lucent Technologies, Inc. For Repeater Systems

Monday, Feb. 8, 1999 -- ALLGON Telecom Ltd. has signed a Sales Referral Agreement with Lucent Technologies for ALLGON's CDMA 1900 PCS Repeater to be used in CDMA network applications.

Under terms of the agreement, Lucent Technologies may, on a non-exclusive basis, refer global service operators to ALLGON when their requirements call for cost-effective CDMA repeater solutions

By using ALLGON's CDMA 1900 Repeaters in their networks Lucent's customers will be able to deploy a hybrid network solution which will provide maximum coverage in their CDMA networks while minimizing costs. The ALLGON repeater can be used to provide continuous coverage throughout radio-shaded and underground areas such as tunnels, subways, parking garages, malls, convention centers, and large office complexes.

The ALLGON CDMA PCS 1900 Repeater will support fiber optic distribution, allowing for further flexibility in system deployment. Also, all of ALLGON's Repeaters feature easy-to-use, Windows 95/NT-based Operations and Maintenance Terminal (OMT) software for maintenance in the field. With the ALLGON Advanced Repeater Operations and Maintenance Center (OMC) software, service operators can configure and control a large number of ALLGON Repeaters, with an integration capability to an existing network operating system.

The ALLGON CDMA 1900 Repeater features high performance, reliability, and uses a modular and flexible design that meets the ever changing wireless market. The ALLGON repeater is small, easy to install, cost-efficient, expandable and software programmable which makes the product very user friendly.

"We are delighted that Lucent has chosen ALLGON to work together in offering their customers a high performing, cost effective repeater coverage solution for their networks. ALLGON looks forward to providing Lucent customers with the highest level of service and quality", says Anders Ericsson, President of ALLGON Telecom Ltd.

Alcatel and Motorola Sign a Worldwide Cooperation Agreement For CDMA Infrastructure Solutions and UMTS Development

PARIS and ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. Feb. 5, 1999 -- Alcatel and Motorola offer customers advanced digital mobile networks and jointly develop new generation mobile products Alcatel and Motorola, Inc. today announced a global agreement, effective immediately, to work together to develop, market and deliver total, integrated CDMA digital network infrastructure to customers worldwide. The companies also have agreed to jointly develop a third generation Mobile Switching Center (MSC)-based UMTS mobile communications network offering. This agreement considerably reinforces and enlarges the scope of the cooperation initiated two years ago. It allows both companies to leverage their complementary resources, including research and development expertise. It will help to ensure customers have rapid access to the latest technologies with closely integrated systems and benefit from faster product availability to both CDMA solutions and new future MSC-based UMTS applications.

Alcatel and Motorola to offer CDMA customers advanced digital networks

This agreement positions the two companies together as worldwide leading suppliers of CDMA network solutions. Alcatel and Motorola will work together to develop new functionality and features for Motorola's current EMX-based CDMA switching platform. To accomplish this, Alcatel and Motorola plan to establish a team of engineers who will work solely on EMX enhancement projects at a dedicated Center of Excellence in Plano, Texas. Prior to its recent merger with Alcatel, the former DSC Communications Corporation designed and built the EMX switch. EMX software was developed jointly by Motorola and DSC.

Additionally, under preferential terms, Motorola will also offer customers Alcatel's S12 switching platform for MSC-based CDMA networks and Alcatel will add Motorola's state-of-the-art CDMA radio base stations and base stations controllers to its portfolio. All integrated CDMA network solutions offered by Alcatel and Motorola will be compliant with all the major open network architectures for CDMA including CDG IOS and IS 634 for cellular and PCS systems.

Alcatel and Motorola to jointly develop third generation UMTS mobile network solutions

The aim of this agreement is to allow each company to leverage their respective expertise to respond more quickly and effectively to customer requests for commercial UMTS solutions based on adopted standards. Specifically, Alcatel will develop an MSC-based UMTS radio network controller (RNC) that interfaces with its core network, while Motorola will develop a radio base station (node B) which interfaces with the Alcatel RNC. These products will be made available to enhance the UMTS portfolios of both companies.

"Alcatel's and Motorola's primary goal is to achieve total customer satisfaction by presenting a single voice to CDMA customers. We believe adding Alcatel's switching expertise to our portfolio of offerings demonstrates our commitment to delivering best-of-breed, integrated networks solutions," said Bo Hedfors senior vice-president and president, Motorola Network Solutions Sector. "The ability to build off of each other's success is the ideal incentive for both Motorola and Alcatel."

"This agreement allows us to significantly strengthen our offer to customers in the cellular infrastructure market. It will also reinforce our position in the field of mobile switching," said Jo Cornu, chief operating officer for Alcatel. "By collaborating with Motorola on UMTS, we have the opportunity to deliver the first systems complying to UMTS standards in the market place while ensuring an efficient and cost-effective use of R&D resources. We will bring our solutions to customers quicker and offer them the integrated world-class products they need to successfully compete."

Nortel Networks to Unveil Newest CDMA Metro Cell at Wireless '99 - Indoor Version Includes Same Flexibility, High Capacity, 3G Readiness

Dallas, TX, Feb. 4, 1999 -- Nortel Networks will unveil the newest member of its advanced CDMA base station family - the indoor CDMA Metro Cell - next week in New Orleans at CTIA's Wireless '99.

Offering flexibility, high capacity and third generation (3G) readiness, the indoor CDMA Metro Cell provides an even more compact, modular package, optimized for bringing the benefits of cdmaOne (IS-95 CDMA) digital wireless service into metropolitan areas or suburban developments within indoor facilities.

Cellular operators with existing cell sites and PCS operators building in urban and suburban areas are expected to be among the primary users of the new base station.

"Our CDMA Metro Cells allow operators to mix and match indoor and outdoor base stations, delivering optimal performance with today's technology, and evolving cost-effectively to the next generation," said Dave Murashige, vice-president, marketing and product line management, Wireless Solutions, Nortel Networks.

Trials of the Nortel Networks indoor CDMA Metro Cell are already underway with Telstra in Australia, and with Bell Mobility and BC TEL Mobility in Canada. General availability is planned for the second quarter of this year. The high capacity, modular design of the Nortel Networks indoor CDMA Metro Cell helps operators meet current and projected traffic needs cost-effectively in urban and suburban indoor applications. The Nortel Networks CDMA Metro Cell supports simultaneous 800 MHz and 1900 MHz service - an industry exclusive. Scheduled to play a key role in pending CDMA2000 (3G evolution of cdmaOne) trials with Sprint PCS and other operators, the CDMA Metro Cell can be easily upgraded to 3G standards, lowering cost of ownership and enabling modular network solutions in fixed, mobile and hybrid environments.

Nortel Networks' CDMA Metro Cells allow the radio enclosure to be located remotely from the digital enclosure for flexible deployment. This is accomplished using a fiber connection, which eliminates signal loss, reduces installation costs and provides the bandwidth required for future applications. An ATM-based architecture reduces networking costs, allowing for data intensive IP-enabled applications as they become available. The CDMA Metro Cell supports Nortel Networks' Smart Multi-Carrier Traffic Allocation (MCTA), the most advanced load balancing software available. Smart MCTA allows CDMA network operators to manage call traffic dynamically, increasing network capacity up to 20 percent over more traditional MCTA designs.

SignalSoft Corp. to Conduct Live Demonstration of New Location-Based Information Service During CTIA Wireless '99 Conference

Demonstration to Run on PrimeCo's Network; Also Using Technology from Lucent Technologies, GTE TSI and InfoNow Corp.

BOULDER, Colo. Feb. 3, 1999-- SignalSoft Corp, a leading international software developer of Wireless Location Services™ , announced today that it will team up with several wireless telecommunications companies to conduct a live demonstration of local.info™, a new location-based information service, during the upcoming CTIA Wireless '99 Conference in New Orleans.

The demonstration is a joint effort, utilizing technology from five companies: SignalSoft's location-based software, the New Orleans CDMA network of PrimeCo Personal Communications, Lucent Technologies' Mobile Switching Center, GTE TSI's intelligent network service bureau and InfoNow Corp.'s localized content and voice processing system. The CTIA demonstration will show how location-based services can deliver personalized lifestyle, business and entertainment information to wireless subscribers. Using PrimeCo wireless phones, the information will be delivered based on a caller's location and specific request. During the conference, CTIA attendees using the PrimeCo network will be able to experience the service by dialing *FIND to easily access localized information about the nearest restaurants, clubs, attractions and ATMs in the New Orleans area.

SignalSoft's local.info, one of several products in its suite of Wireless Location Services, is supported by the Company's recently introduced local.info Content Alliance. The local.info Content Alliance combines SignalSoft's location-based software with a range of localized information provided by the Alliance members. These pre-packaged services allow cellular and PCS network operators to easily deploy location-based services in their network and to quickly offer a variety of services to their subscribers. GTE TSI's INPositionSM service, which uses SignalSoft's local.info product, is commercially available as a service bureau application. Local.info is also commercially available through SignalSoft's other channel partners.

"CTIA attendees will be able to experience first-hand how SignalSoft's local.info, combined with the local.info Content Alliance and technology from the participating companies, turns their existing phone into an extremely efficient way to access localized information, including Internet content. This shows how complex technology can be simplified to provide exciting new services for consumers. During CTIA, attendees can just dial *FIND to try out the service," said David Hose, SignalSoft president.
Tom Welsh, director of new products at PrimeCo, stated: "PrimeCo is interested in offering more enhanced services to our customers. We are pleased to demonstrate this exciting new location-based product from SignalSoft in front of the worldwide wireless audience attending CTIA."

"We applaud SignalSoft's ability to provide cdmaOne™ carriers with a location-based information service that offers wireless subscribers easy access to real-time information from the Internet, "said Perry LaForge, executive director of the CDMA Development Group.

"SignalSoft has clearly developed a revenue-generating and service differentiation solution for carriers that capitalizes on cdmaOne technology's superior wireless data capabilities. We look forward to the continued evolution of location services based on cdmaOne, " concluded LaForge.

"We are very excited to be part of this unique demonstration as well," said Paul Wilcock, assistant vice president-marketing for GTE TSI. "Our INPosition service, which uses this innovative product from SignalSoft, demonstrates how GTE TSI can help wireless network operators quickly deploy location-based services to win new customers."
PrimeCo Personal Communications, which is owned by AirTouch Communications and Bell Atlantic, provides digital wireless service in more than 30 major cities in Alabama, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin. Sale of the company's Hawaii license and operations is pending regulatory approval. In the continental U.S., the company has PCS licenses covering about 60 million potential customers in 10 major trading areas and has nearly 3,100 employees. At the end of the third quarter 1998, PrimeCo had more than 700,000 subscribers.

QUALCOMM Announces New CDMA RF Chip To Extend Performance of 3000-Generation Chipset Solution

UD3000 Chip Offers Area Reduction and Power Savings

SAN DIEGO, Feb. 1, 1999 -- QUALCOMM Incorporated today introduced its UD3000™ chip that will provide greater transmit functionality and enhanced performance of its 3000-generation chipset for an IS-95A or IS-95B Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) compliant handset. Developed by QUALCOMM's ASIC Products, the UD3000 Intermediate Frequency-to-Radio Frequency (IF to RF) transmit (Tx) device performs all signal processing functions required between the QUALCOMM IFT3000™ baseband-to-IF processor and the power amplifier (PA).

The UD3000 integrates single sideband upconversion from IF to RF, along with two cellular and two Personal Communications Service (PCS) driver amplifiers with the required output power to drive the PA. Consistent with QUALCOMM ASIC Product's progress in further integrating functions onto single chips, this new design architecture eliminates the need for a filter normally required between the upconverter and the driver amplifier, offering an overall savings to printed circuit board area and reduced handset cost. The UD3000 together with the IFT3000 comprise a baseband-to-RF chipset solution for the Tx path up to the PA. This new device is optimized for mobile handset transmit compatibility with the cellular and PCS frequency bands covering global CDMA markets.

"The development of the UD3000 chip is further evidence of our continuing support for manufacturers who require improvements in the operating efficiency and flexibility to support multiple frequency bands in their CDMA handsets," said Johan Lodenius, vice president of marketing for QUALCOMM's ASIC Products.

"Consumers will see the benefits of our 3000-generation chipset solution, including the UD3000 chip, when manufacturers using our solution begin shipping their smaller and more versatile handsets with significantly longer stand-by and talk times later this year."

The UD3000 further complements QUALCOMM's 3000-generation CDMA chipsets for dual mode cellular (CDMA/AMPS), single-band PCS, or dual-band PCS (PCS CDMA/AMPS) handsets. QUALCOMM's industry-leading 3000-generation of CDMA chipsets for cellular and PCS applications includes: The MSM3000™ Mobile Station Modem (MSM™) chipset and system software, the IFT3000 and IFR3000™ fully integrated IF chipset and the UD3000 chip.

QUALCOMM's fifth-generation chip, the MSM3000, began production shipping in December 1998 on schedule. The low-power chipset and system software enable design of small form-factor handsets with very long stand-by times, support for data rates of up to 86.4 kbps and the delivery of hands-free operation and dialing.

The IFT3000 and IFR3000 are the first chips to incorporate the complete IF functionality for a CDMA handset, from digital baseband converters to Automatic Gain Control (AGC), offering an area reduction of 45 percent over previous IF solutions and optimized power savings for extended standby-time and talk-time performance.

Features of the UD3000 chip include:

* Driver amplifier gain control provided for improved Tx Dynamic Range and carrier-to-noise performance;
* Operating modes controlled by MSM3000 chip;
* Puncture mode for extended talk-time performance; and
* Power supply voltage range from 2.7 volts (V) to 3.3 V providing operating compatibility for handsets utilizing a single-cell Li-Ion battery design.

The UD3000 chip is fabricated on an advanced BiCMOS process which enables both precision high-frequency analog circuits and low-power CMOS functions. The UD3000 chip will be provided in a 32-pin BCC++ plastic package. Sample shipping will begin in the second quarter of 1999. Production quantities are expected to be available in the third quarter of 1999.

QUALCOMM ASIC Products Division is the leading developer and supplier of CDMA chipsets, hardware and software solutions and tools with more than 30 million MSM chips shipped worldwide. The ASIC Products Division supplies chipsets to the world's leading CDMA handset and infrastructure manufacturers including: ALPS ELECTRIC CO., LTD.; CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.; DENSO CORPORATION; FUJITSU LIMITED; Hitachi, Ltd.; LG Information and Communications, Ltd.; Samsung Electronics Ltd.; SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.; and TOSHIBA CORPORATION, among others.

QUALCOMM Announces New Packaging for its Fifth-Generation CDMA Chipsets

Smaller Packaging Will Give Manufacturers Greater Flexibility to Develop Smaller Wireless Phones

SAN DIEGO, Feb. 1, 1999 -- QUALCOMM Incorporated, pioneer and world leader of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) digital wireless technology, today introduced new packaging for its industry-leading MSM3000™ Mobile Station Modem (MSM™) and IFT3000™ and IFR3000™ fully integrated Intermediate Frequency (IF) chipsets. The new packaging offers manufacturers the ability to design very small handsets and other devices, giving greater flexibility to develop differentiated products.

The MSM3000 chip, currently being shipped to customers, will be available in a 176 Fine Pitched Ball Grid Array (FBGA) package with a footprint measuring 169 square millimeters (mm) with a volume of 237 cubic mm. This represents reductions of 25 percent in the mounting footprint and 40 percent in the volume of the current 196 Plastic Ball Grid Array (PBGA) production package while providing the same functionality. The MSM3000 chip is currently in volume production in a 176 Thin Quad Flat Pack (TQFP) and a 196 PBGA. The new 176 FBGA package is also offered in a four-perimeter-rows-of-solder-balls (P4) configuration, with a 0.8 mm ball pitch, making circuit routing and assembly easier and enabling the use of cost effective printed circuit boards.

"Leading with new package technologies will enable even further reductions in the size of wireless phones," said Luis Pineda, director of product management for QUALCOMM's ASIC Products. "We continue to work closely with our customers to help them differentiate their phones and offer flexibility in the design of next-generation wireless devices."

Together, QUALCOMM's MSM3000 chip, the IFT3000 and IFR3000 fully integrated Intermediate Frequency (IF) chipset, and the RF front end constitute the system hardware necessary for an IS-95A or IS-95B CDMA compliant handset. These IF devices are the first chips incorporating the complete IF functionality for a CDMA handset, from digital baseband converters to Automatic Gain Control (AGC).
Both the IFT3000 and IFR3000 are now offered in a Bump Chip Carrier (BCC) ultra small chip-size package. The 48-pin BCC package measures 49 square mm and has a low 0.8 mm profile. This is a 40 percent reduction in the mounting footprint of the current IFT3000 and IFR3000 production package, the 48-pin TQFP. The BCC style package has peripheral mounted pads to simplify manufacturing and printed circuit board layout considerations providing improved electrical performance.

The IFT3000 BCC, IFR3000 BCC and MSM3000 176 FBGA samples are available this quarter. Daisy chain samples, with no active inside circuits, are also available to ready handset manufacturing lines.

QUALCOMM ASIC Products Division is the leading developer and supplier of CDMA chipsets, hardware and software solutions and tools with more than 30 million MSM chips shipped worldwide. The ASIC Products Division supplies chipsets to the world's leading CDMA handset and infrastructure manufacturers including: ALPS ELECTRIC CO., LTD.; CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.; DENSO CORPORATION; FUJITSU LIMITED; Hitachi, Ltd.; LG Information and Communications, Ltd.; Samsung Electronics Ltd.; SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.; and TOSHIBA CORPORATION, among others.