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Published date: Feb. 7, 1997
Company name: The National Dispatch Center Inc.
Address: 8911 Balboa Ave.
San Diego, Calif. 92123
Main telephone
number: 619/654-9000
Chief executive
officer: John B. MacLeod
President: Linda G. Noda Hobbs
Public-relations
contact: Beth Walsh
Business number: 619/654-9000
E-mail address: bwalsh@ndcwireless.com
Public-relations
contact: Kim A. Merrill, Merrill Marketing/Communications
Business number: 619/278-1321
E-mail address: glitch@cts.com
URL link: http://www.ndcwireless.com/ndc.htm
Company description:
The National Dispatch Center Inc. (NDC NDC National Drug Code NDC NATO Defense College NDC National Documentation Centre (National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece) NDC National Dairy Council NDC National Democratic Congress ) is a wireless- communications gateway providing operator call center, one-number services and a variety of automated services for more than three-quarters of a million subscribers. The automated services include a number of value-added information services (e.g., stocks, news, sports, weather). In addition to supporting more than 1,300 paging networks, services are provided for numerous high-profile emerging-technology companies in the digital cellular, enhanced specialized mobile radio See SMR. (ESMR ESMR Enhanced Specialized Mobile Radio ESMR Extended Specialized Mobile Radio (Nextel) ESMR Expert Systems Message Router ESMR Electrically/Electronically Scanned/ing Microwave Radiometer ESMR Engine Starter Motor Relay ), cellular digital packet data (communications, protocol) Cellular Digital Packet Data - (CDPD) A wireless standard providing two-way, 19.2 kbps packet data transmission over exisiting cellular telephone channels. (CDPD (Cellular Digital Packet Data) A low-speed, digital, wireless data network that is an enhancement to an existing analog cellular network. Based on IBM's CelluPlan II, CDPD provides a packet overlay onto the AMPS network and moves data at 19. ) and personal communications services See PCS. (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. ) areas. NDC sells its services on a wholesale basis to carriers and manufacturers, and allows them to mark up, brand and sell NDC services as their own. This wholesale model allows NDC to work on a nonexclusive basis for the full spectrum of wireless carriers and manufacturers. It allows the carriers to make money on recurrent revenue, without development or overhead expenses. In November 1990, NDC incorporated with just 15 employees. Now 6 years old, the company boasts more than 1,300 employees and processes more than 6 million messages per month from its corporate headquarters and its Technology and Operations Center, both located in San Diego. CONTACT: The National Dispatch Center Inc. |
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