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                    [Title] => Cellphone firms to face new technology
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Local cellular phone companies may take four to five years before being able to adopt the third generation (3G) mobile technology which foreign operators are already testing.

Greg Marshall, Lucent Technologies Philippines president and chief executive officer, said that it would not be easy for the carriers to practically throw away huge investments in their current platform amounting to billions of pesos.

"3G will displace all of these technologies but for most companies, especially in developing countries, this is may not be a reality in the next four to five years," he s [DatePublished] => 2000-06-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1199471 [AuthorName] => by Marigold Yao-Endriga [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 99190 [Title] => Lucent bares new technologies [Summary] =>

In the next few months, top telecom companies in the country will be adopting new technologies that will allow them to handle up to 1,000 simultaneous calls in a single copper line at a very low cost.

Greg Marshall, president of Lucent Technologies Philippines, said yesterday that with the digital subscriber line (DSL), carriers no longer need to put up expensive infrastructure but can utilize their existing facilities to accommodate more voice and data traffic.

As a result, he said, companies would be able to offer cheaper services to their customers.

Although Lucent's [DatePublished] => 2000-05-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1199471 [AuthorName] => by Marigold Yao-Endriga [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 100558 [Title] => Lucent still hopeful on rural phone project [Summary] =>

There is no end in sight yet to the saga of global telecom supplier Lucent Technologies which has been waiting for two years to start its long-delayed P1.2 billion rural telephone contract with government.

Greg Marshall, Lucent Philippines president, said yesterday that although there are no longer any hitches insofar as the agreement with the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) is concerned, they still could not push through with the project due to the absence of a counterpart government funding amounting to P357.43 million.

Marshall said they have alread [DatePublished] => 2000-04-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1199471 [AuthorName] => by Marigold Yao-Endriga [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) ) )

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                    [Title] => Cellphone firms to face new technology
                    [Summary] => 

Local cellular phone companies may take four to five years before being able to adopt the third generation (3G) mobile technology which foreign operators are already testing.

Greg Marshall, Lucent Technologies Philippines president and chief executive officer, said that it would not be easy for the carriers to practically throw away huge investments in their current platform amounting to billions of pesos.

"3G will displace all of these technologies but for most companies, especially in developing countries, this is may not be a reality in the next four to five years," he s [DatePublished] => 2000-06-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1199471 [AuthorName] => by Marigold Yao-Endriga [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 99190 [Title] => Lucent bares new technologies [Summary] =>

In the next few months, top telecom companies in the country will be adopting new technologies that will allow them to handle up to 1,000 simultaneous calls in a single copper line at a very low cost.

Greg Marshall, president of Lucent Technologies Philippines, said yesterday that with the digital subscriber line (DSL), carriers no longer need to put up expensive infrastructure but can utilize their existing facilities to accommodate more voice and data traffic.

As a result, he said, companies would be able to offer cheaper services to their customers.

Although Lucent's [DatePublished] => 2000-05-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1199471 [AuthorName] => by Marigold Yao-Endriga [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 100558 [Title] => Lucent still hopeful on rural phone project [Summary] =>

There is no end in sight yet to the saga of global telecom supplier Lucent Technologies which has been waiting for two years to start its long-delayed P1.2 billion rural telephone contract with government.

Greg Marshall, Lucent Philippines president, said yesterday that although there are no longer any hitches insofar as the agreement with the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) is concerned, they still could not push through with the project due to the absence of a counterpart government funding amounting to P357.43 million.

Marshall said they have alread [DatePublished] => 2000-04-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1199471 [AuthorName] => by Marigold Yao-Endriga [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) ) )

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