Cellular One first cellular provider to launch Digital PCS in Boston.BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 1, 1996-- Advanced technology allows single wireless phone to serve as an answering machine and pager with Caller ID A telephone company service that sends the caller's telephone number between the first and second ring of the call. If the calling number is not blocked, the calling number is displayed on the handset or base station of the called party. Cellular One Friday announced the deployment of digital technology called Cellular One Digital PCS (1) (Personal Communications Services) Refers to wireless services that emerged after the U.S. government auctioned commercial licenses in 1994 and 1995. This radio spectrum in the 1. -- becoming the first wireless provider of digital cellular service in Boston. Cellular One Digital PCS benefits business and residential customers by offering a single wireless digital phone that doubles as a pager and message notification system A modern notification system is a combination of software and hardware that provides a means of delivering a message to a set of recipients. For example, notification systems can send an e-mail when a new topic has been added to Wikipedia. , with extended battery life and Caller ID capability. Cellular One Digital PCS (Personal Cellular Services) transmits calls in data bits, potentially tripling Cellular One's system capacity and offering customers an express lane to the network. Called Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) A satellite and cellular phone technology that interleaves multiple digital signals onto a single high-speed channel. For cellular, TDMA triples the capacity of the original analog method (FDMA). ), the proven technology is manufactured by Bell Labs-Lucent Technologies and has been used commercially for four years. "Digital PCS can help our customers manage their busy lives," said Kathy Dowling, president and general manager, Cellular One/Boston. "This unparalleled technology allows us to expand our current services from which consumers can pick and choose, from today into the 21st Century." Cellular One Digital PCS phones automatically sense and select the digital cellular network whenever possible, but also operate on the existing analog cellular systems nationwide. Cellular One Digital PCS offers the following services: -0- o Caller ID. This service allows customers to see who is calling before answering the call, so customers can screen calls and decide which ones to answer. o Longer Battery Life. Digital phones "sleep" between calls, conserving energy and more than doubling standby time. This reduces a customer's chance of missing important calls, as well as the need to carry and recharge spare batteries. o Intelligent Voice Mail with Visual Message Waiting Indicator Message Waiting Indicator (MWI) in telephony, is a Bellcore term for an FSK-based telephone calling feature that illuminates an LED on select telephones to notify a telephone user of waiting voicemail messages on most North American public telephone networks and PBXs. . With a quick glance, customers can see how many messages they have waiting, and review them with the touch of one button. o Built-in Alphanumeric Pager. Customers callers can page them with call-back numbers or leave up to 80-character text messages. Even if a customer's phone is turned off, their messages will be stored for three days. The Alphanumeric Paging feature will be available in the spring. o Privacy. Because calls are digitized, customers conversations are more private. o Security. Transparent to customers, built-in features throughout the Cellular One network, together with authentication features in the new digital phones, will help protect against phone number cloning. Legitimate phones are asked to identify themselves via a non-duplicable number encoded in their software. -0- Cellular One PCS is available with Cellular One's current rate plans. Caller ID will cost $3.95 per month, but will be introduced free for a year to customers who sign up by Dec. 31, 1996. Alphanumeric paging will cost $9.95 per month for up to 100 messages. Cellular One is a leader in deploying digital technology. In 1991, Cellular One's corporate parent, Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems, LLC is one of the companies that provide cellular telephone service under the AT&T Mobility brand. It was created in 1984 as Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems, Inc. , was the first wireless phone company to transmit a digital phone call. And, in 1993, Southwestern Bell's Chicago property launched digital technology, becoming the largest digital network in a single market in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . Based in Westwood, Mass., Cellular One provides cellular phone service throughout greater Boston Greater Boston is the area of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts surrounding the city of Boston, Massachusetts. While Metro Boston tends to be the "Inner Core" surrounding the City of Boston, Greater Boston overlaps the North and South Shores, as well as the MetroWest region. , Worcester, Cape Cod and Rockingham County, N.H. Cellular One, together with its Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems affiliate, provides wireless communications to more than 4 million customers in 63 markets throughout the United States -- an industry-leading 10.1 percent market penetration rate. SBMS SBMS Southwestern Bell Mobile Service SBMS Spanish Broadcast & Media Services (University of California) SBMS State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping SBMS South Brandywine Middle School (PA, USA) is the wireless subsidiary within SBC (1) (SBC Communications Inc., San Antonio, TX, www.sbc.com) A large, national telecommunications company that grew from a multitude of local and regional companies, including Southwestern Bell, Pacific Bell and Nevada Bell, into a single, unified brand by 2002. Communications Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :SBC), one of the world s leading diversified telecommunications companies. CONTACT: Cellular One John Redman, 617/462-5036 or Fleishman-Hillard Gary Collins, 212/265-9150 |
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