C&W Offers GPRS in Jamaica

KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Cable & Wireless Jamaica is now offering new advanced mobile data services to business and residential customers island-wide using a next generation wireless network from Nortel Networks (NYSE:NT - News; TSX:NT - News).

These services include mobile Web browsing, e-mail, and other wireless multimedia applications. Cable & Wireless is offering these services over a network based on GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications), GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) and EDGE (Enhanced Data rate for Global Evolution)-ready technology provided by Nortel Networks.

The network was designed to provide high-speed mobile Web browsing, e-mail, and other wireless multimedia services. It has also increased voice service capacity and enhanced regional and international roaming.

Nortel Networks built this network under an agreement announced in November 2002 with Cable & Wireless West Indies, the Caribbean's leading telecom operator and an affiliate of Cable & Wireless Jamaica. The agreement includes networks for a total of 12 countries in the Caribbean. Cable & Wireless West Indies intends to launch similar wireless data services in the Cayman Islands, Barbados and other islands by the end of third quarter 2003.

"Cable & Wireless is keeping its promise to provide the latest in advanced mobile services for its customers in Jamaica," said Gary Barrow, president, Cable & Wireless Jamaica. "Through their global expertise in deploying GSM and GPRS networks, Nortel Networks has delivered a high-quality infrastructure that is already prepared to provide the next level of EDGE services, enabling Cable & Wireless to easily meet future subscriber demands."

Nortel Networks has been providing wireless, wireline, optical and enterprise telecommunications solutions for Cable & Wireless in the Caribbean for more than 30 years.

"We continue to work closely with Cable & Wireless in Jamaica and the other islands to facilitate a seamless migration to their next generation networks," said Norberto Milan, managing director for Nortel Networks in the Caribbean. "For the past three decades, we've worked closely with Cable & Wireless and other innovative customers in the Caribbean. Our goal is to continue building advanced networks that help position innovative customers like Cable & Wireless to offer new services, drive new revenues, and lower operational costs."

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