Subject: [NEXTEL-1] Motorola Israel starts field trials for army phones

From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 06:51:50 -0400

Motorola Israel starts field trials for army phones
Reuters, 06.16.03, 7:24 AM ET

TEL AVIV, June 16 (Reuters) - Motorola
Israel Ltd, a unit of Motorola (nyse: MOT
- news - people), said on Monday it
started field trials for a cutting-edge
secure mobile phone system that is
hard to disable and ensures Israeli
army commanders can contact officers
in the field anytime, anywhere.

The $90-million "Mountain Rose"
system will make the Israeli army one
of the few forces in the world using
advanced cellphone technology,
Motorola said in a statement.

The system allows the secure
transmission of voice and data running
at a speed consistent with intermediate
2.5-generation mobile technology.

When it becomes fully operational next
year field commanders under fire will
no longer have to dash to a secure
mobile telecommunications unit since
they will have terminals sewn into their
battle vests to allow communication
with senior commanders.

The Israeli army's Signals Corp has
embedded its top-secret encryption and
information security software into
Motorola's technology which is suited to
the TETRA system.

The TETRA (Terrestrial Trunked Radio
Access) cellular network is the
European standard for commercial
dispatch systsms and has been
adapted by many public safety
organisations.

http://www.forbes.com/technology/newswire/2003/06/16/rtr1000740.html

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