DBA inks deal

_ DBA Telecom (dba), a North Vancouver-based developer and manufac- turer of telecommunica- tions hardware and software, announced a

- two-year distribution - agreement with a British firm, Ericsson Ltd., Public Systems Division.

The agreement should be .

worth at least US$3 million, It will see dba’s SmarTalk tele- phone product family. sold under the Ericsson brand and marks ‘the. second European collaboration with the giant Ericsson Liniited, said dba. “Signing this agreement demonstrates thar choosing, to

. develop a product family for .

“the competitive telephone

, Operator market was a winning strategy,” said dba CEO David

Bensted.

~ “The enormous changes

that are taking place in the

‘ "s business communication mar:

“ket stem from deregulation, the resulting competition, and the convergence of tclephones and computers.

“We designed the SmarTalk family.in anticipation that tele-

; phone ‘companies would need

“vintelligent terminals co help

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them provide their customers with total telephony. service packages including such fea- tures as call forwarding, caller ID, and voice mail identifica- tion,” he said.

Ericsson. Ltd ©, Public Systems Division, is a sub- sidiary of Ericsson Telecom AB of Sweden,

Earlier, dba announced Singapore Telecom's wholly

owned subsidiary Telecom Equipment Pte Ltd., has com- menced sales of the new SmarTalk NRG phone, the first product in its class to sup- port desktop computer-tele- phony integration, said dba.

Established in 1975, dba

employs 35 people and trades on the VSEa.

‘Tt has been trading at around 30 cents.

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