Telefonica Celular, Motorola Ink US$188 Million Contract

Motorola (Schaumburg, IL) has signed a US$188 million contract with Telefonica Celular (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) to provide digital wireless telephones. Telefonica Celular will offer its choice of two Motorola phone models, the CDMA StarTAC ST7760 and the MultiTAC SC3160 CDMA dual mode 800 MHz phones. Motorola expects to deliver the phones to Telefonica Celular by December 1999 for its supply to Rio de Janeiro, Espirito Santo, Bahia, and Sergipe.

The StarTAC ST7760 dual mode (CDMA and analog) phone weighs as little as 105g and offers from 90 to 250 minutes of talk time and up to 120 hours of standby time when operating in digital mode. Key features include: a display with multiple visualization options and various font sizes; VibraCall silent alert, caller ID, a voice mail icon, and text messaging system.

The MultiTAC SC3160 CDMA phone measures 12 cm in length and 4.5 cm in depth and features VibraCall silent alert, a Portuguese options menu, a four line and 12-digit display with an extra line of icons that makes retrieving incoming calling information easier to retrieve, and 99 alphanumeric memories that can store the last 10 numbers called and the numbers of the last 16 calls received. Additionally, the MultiTAC SC3160 CDMA phone is capable of Short Message Service (SMS) and Caller ID.