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Philippines' SMART Communications Signs the Largest Motorola Canopy(TM) Wireless Broadband Equipment Deal to Date
SCHAUMBURG, Ill., and MANILA, Philippines, July 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Motorola, Inc. and the Philippines' SMART Communications signed a multi-million dollar contract for the purchase of Motorola's Canopy wireless broadband products. The multi-year contract, signed in June 2005, is the largest single contract to date for Canopy products.
Over the period of this contract, SMART plans to provide broadband Internet and data services to residential and business subscribers using Motorola's Canopy wireless broadband products. SMART is scheduled to start deploying Canopy Advantage(TM) equipment later this year throughout the Philippines. The Canopy based wireless broadband network will provide SMART a new source of revenue opportunities with significant upward growth potential based on current service demand for new services in both developed and undeveloped regions of the Philippines. SMART is the Philippines' leading telecommunications services provider with more than 20 million cellular subscribers.
SMART has spent more than 12 months in trial deployments with Motorola's Canopy platform.
"We believe that wireless broadband is the most affordable way for the people in the Philippines to be able to receive reliable, high-speed Internet connectivity," said Rene Dos Remedios, president of Meridian Telekoms, Inc., a subsidiary of SMART Communications that is focused on the Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) business. "We live in a country that makes fiber and wired alternatives cost prohibitive to deploy. The Canopy platform allows us to deliver broadband and data services at price points Filipinos can afford with the ability to easily scale our networks."
"SMART's business case envisions an available market for wireless broadband services to reach upward of several million subscribers in the Philippines over the next five years. Motorola is committed to supplying a portfolio of very cost effective wireless broadband products that can provide the end-user with the voice and data services they desire," said Adrian Nemcek, executive vice president, Motorola and president, Motorola Networks.
About SMART Communications
SMART is the Philippines' leading wireless services provider with 20.2 million subscribers on its network as of the end of March 2005. Of the total subscriber base served, 15.2 million are under the brands Smart Gold, Smart Buddy, Smart Infinity, Addict Mobile and Smart Kid. The remaining 5 million subscribers are serviced through a reseller agreement with Piltel under the GSM brand Talk 'N Text. Since launching its GSM service in 1999, SMART has introduced world-first wireless data services, including mobile commerce services such as Smart Money, Smart Load and Smart Padala. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of the largest Philippines telecommunications carrier, the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT).
About Meridian Telekoms, Inc.
Meridian Telekoms, Inc. is one of the pioneers in broadband wireless access in the Philippines. The company started operations in 2000 and has since grown to become the leading supplier of broadband wireless access for corporate and institutional customers in the country. In August 2004, SMART acquired 40 percent of the company and since then Meridian has been at the forefront of the integration and management of SMART's broadband wireless access deployment plans.
About Motorola's Canopy(TM) platform
Winner of the 2005 SUPERquest Award for Continuous Achievement, Motorola's Canopy platform is a robust, high-speed wireless broadband solution for cost- effective connectivity for private networks, such as governments or enterprises and for Internet service providers and carriers. The Canopy system is a scalable, reliable platform that supports high speed broadband applications. Its superior performance promises one of the lowest total costs of ownership and is designed to significantly reduce a provider's start-up, maintenance and leased-line costs. The Canopy point-to-point and point-to- multipoint system configurations are being deployed in more than 100 countries around the world. Please visit our website at http://www.motorola.com/canopy and the online magazine Connections at http://www.connectwithcanopy.com/ .
About Motorola
Motorola is a Fortune 100 global communications leader that provides seamless mobility products and solutions across broadband, embedded systems and wireless networks. In your home, auto, workplace and all spaces in between, seamless mobility means you can reach the people, things and information you need, anywhere, anytime. Seamless mobility harnesses the power of technology convergence and enables smarter, faster, cost-effective and flexible communication. Motorola had sales of US$31.3 billion in 2004. For more information: http://www.motorola.com/ .
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