Cellular One's State-of-the-Art Network Helps Law Enforcement Capture Most Wanted Fugitive; Multi-Million Dollar Investment Gave Officials a Strong Wireless Signal.WARREN, Pa. -- As law enforcement officials cornered a dangerous fugitive last weekend, they turned to Cellular One's state-of-the-art wireless network for emergency communication. Cellular One provided 20 wireless telephones to the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of State Police. The police used the phones September 8th as they zeroed in on Ralph "Bucky" Phillips Ralph James "Bucky" Phillips (born June 19, 1962) is a convicted murderer from upstate New York caught on September 8, 2006 by the Pennsylvania State Police.[1] He was wanted for the shooting of three New York State troopers, one of whom died from his wounds. - listed on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted Most Wanted may refer to:
Law enforcement officials requested the use of Cellular One's service after it was determined the company's cutting-edge GSM/GPRS/EDGE network was the only wireless service that would work near the police command post. Cellular One spokesman Craig Davis
Craig “Buster” Davis (born October 2, 1985, in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a wide receiver drafted by the San Diego Chargers. says continued network enhancements and improvements gave officials a strong wireless signal. In the last three years, Cellular One has invested more than $3.5 million to strengthen its area network. In just the last year, the company has built New York cell sites in Jamestown, Greenhurst and Ripley, and in Pennsylvania new cell sites are in Warren, Rogerstown and Sugar Grove Sugar Grove can refer to:
"The Cellular One staff went above and beyond in quickly providing wireless phones for law enforcement use in this situation," said Tech Sgt. Vince Gerace of the Chautauqua County Chautauqua County is the name of several counties in the United States:
Phillips was captured on September 8. "In addition to voice service, law enforcement officials used Cellular One's wireless data services to send and receive e-mails and text messages during the ordeal," Gerace said. "Providing the people of New York and Pennsylvania the strongest network is our number one priority," said Timothy J. Duffy, Cellular One's Chief Technical Officer and Senior Vice President of Engineering and Network Operations. "We're pleased our network investment resulted in better communication for law enforcement officials, and we will continue to focus our efforts on delivering the strongest signal possible." For more information on the products and services offered by Cellular One, including GSM data services like the wireless Internet, text messaging Sending short messages to a smartphone, pager, PDA or other handheld device. Text messaging implies sending short messages generally no more than a couple of hundred characters in length. , camera phones and downloadables, visit www.celloneusa.com. |
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