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- From: jongsma@swdev.si.com (Ken Jongsma)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: GTE PCS Trial Begins
- Message-ID: <telecom12.905.2@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 19:05:11 GMT
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 905, Message 2 of 5
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- From the latest GTE Quarterly Shareholder Report:
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- "...GTE in August announced the nation's largest market trial of
- wireless communications services.
-
- Called Tele-Go Phone Service, the comprehensive consumer-market trial
- offers two versions of personal communications services (PCS) to GTE
- residental and small business telephone customers in Florida's Tampa
- Bay area. The trial, which began in September and will conclude by
- year end 1993, is a joint product of GTE Mobile Communications, GTE
- Telephone Operations, GTE Laboratories, AT&T Network Systems, OKI
- Telecom and Northern Telecom Inc.
-
- [...]
-
- The experimental GTE Tele-Go includes two versions of PCS.
-
- The first, a fully mobile version, offers an improved-quality cordless
- telephone service at home with the advantages of cellular-like
- mobility away from home. Customers will have a set number of minutes
- of usage for a fixed rate [Ha! Sounds like measured rate to me. -Ken]
- when within their neighborhood "home area". Outside the "home area,"
- these same customers can continue to use the service -- even when
- traveling in a moving vehicle -- for a nominal "premimum area" charge.
-
- The second version employs the same "home area" and "premimum area"
- calling and billing options. However, the PCS handset cannot receive
- inbound calls when it is outside the "home area." Those calls are
- routed directly to a voicemail system and can be retrieved from either
- home or preimum areas.
-
- [...]
-
- Customers must also be standing still or walking, as opposed to
- traveling in a car, when placing calls, as the signal does not "hand
- off" from one PCS antenna site to another.
-
- These restrictions will help determine how "mobile" the residential
- customers really want to be.
-
- During the trial, customers will have the option of subscribing to
- Tele-Go as a replacement of their residential service or as an
- addition to it. [...]
-
- <end of article>
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