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News
& Events - Press Releases
December 19, 2002
Brazilian Technology Brings Public Telephony to Samoa
CPqD Sells Inductive Card Pay Phone Technology to the Island Nation; Three Other
Brazilian Companies to Provide Equipment
(Campinas, Brazil) -- CPqD, a leading technology services provider to the
telecommunications industry in Brazil and the largest research and
development center in Latin America, announced today that it has signed a
system supply contract with SamoaTel, Samoa’s national and international
telecommunications and postal services provider, to set up a pay phone
remote supervision software platform and enabling Samoa to have a public
telephony service for the first time in its history.
The software system, known as CPqD Remote Supervision, monitors the
occurrence of failures, gathers information on revenue, updates
configuration parameters and provides data in the form of reports, allowing
the operational control of the payphone plant. Though the technology and its
implementation represents a technological milestone passed for Samoa, the
same technology has been in place for over a decade in Brazil.
The contract between CPqD and SamoaTel includes software installation within
the carrier and subsequent maintenance, as well as the training of involved
personnel. Additionally, three other Brazilian companies will provide
equipment as part of the SamoaTel agreement. Icatel (Ica telecommunications
Ltd.) will manufacture the pay phone devices; ITE (Teleinformática) will
produce the telephone booths and enclosures; and ICE Special Cards will
provide the inductive cards.
“The introduction of Payphones is an important part of SamoaTel’s strategy
to meet its social obligation to increase the availability of telephone
services,” said Grant McGouch, IT General Manager of SamoaTel.
“As a result of this agreement, the technology developed by CPqD for the
public telephony sector will reach a broader user segment internationally,”
CPqD President Hélio Graciosa said. “We welcome the opportunity to provide
similar technology elsewhere in the world, including the U.S.”
Graciosa continued, “In addition, CPqD is pleased to provide other Brazilian
companies the opportunity to expand their businesses in the international
marketplace. We are helping to open the doors of the world for our
manufacturers to prove their capabilities.”
Last November, CPqD USA, the company’s North American arm, also signed an
agreement with PrairieWave, a North American telecommunications operating
company, to provide systems to automate the billing, customer care, request
management, outside plant management, workforce management, and products
supply management for PrairieWave’s cable TV, broadband data and telephony
services.
About CPqD
The largest research and development center in Latin America, applying
almost 30% of its annual revenue in R&D and positioned among the ten
greatest Information Technology Solutions producers in Brazil, CPqD (www.cpqd.com.br)
has distinguished itself in the operations and business support systems and
laboratory services sectors, and in highly qualified consulting service
provisioning. CPqD’s advanced technology solutions are widely used in
Brazil, in the United States, as well as in Europe and in Latin America.
For more information contact:
Luiz Del Fiorentino, Vice President-Global Business Development
CPqD
fiorenti@cpqd.com.br
Francisco Lopes, Technical Director
954-332-3695
business@cpqdusa.com
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Certain statements in this news release may constitute “forward-looking
statements,” which involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other
important factors that could cause the actual results, performance or
achievements of CPqD and any of their subsidiaries to differ materially from
any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such
forward-looking statements.
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