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echo: cellular
to: THE REAL TOM MARKS
from: CHARLES HUNTER
date: 1997-06-19 09:49:00
subject: Re: Multiple carriers (3 or m 09:49:0006/19/97

 GE> In other words, a Cellular One customer could switch his phone to GTE
 GE> Mobilnet, or vice versa. That customer could also access the other
 GE> carrier's towers, though he'd pay a healthy roaming charge. But if you
 GE> buy a Nextel phone, it can only work on Nextel towers. And if there
 GE> are no Nextel towers within range, then you have no service.
I picked up some literature in Pittsburgh on AT&T's PCS.  It seems that 
there system is just a digital phone on Cellular One's Cellphone 
system.  Why do they call it PCS?
Charles
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