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Re: Who Answers 911? Cell Phones and VoIP Put Responders to Test

John Levine (johnl@iecc.com)
3 May 2005 14:57:55 -0000

> Not exactly. AMPS licenses were granted to *two* carriers in every
> market: one "wireline" (incumbent LEC) telephone company, and one
> independent carrier. So it is only right to say that *half of* the
> original cell phone carriers were the telcos.

Pat is right -- most of the A carriers were LECs from somewhere else,
or perhaps for the first 15 minutes someone who bought a kit to bid in
the cellular auction and then turned around and sold his ticket to SBC
or Bell Atlantic.

R's,

John

[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: But SBC in those days was Southwestern
Bell, and its eastern boundary was Missouri. Please correct me as
needed, but weren't all or most of the -A- or 'competing' carriers
in fact one 'Celluar One' (as a brand name) or another? I know here
in southeast Kansas the A/B thing got screwed up somehow; where Sprint
(the old United Telephone) is the 'B' or established telco in the
northern part (old 913 area code) of the state and 'Alltel' is the
'A' carrier when you get south where I am (the old 316 and now 620
area code) Alltel is the 'B' carrier and Cingular Wireless is the 'A'
carrier, which they inherited when they took over AT&T's old territory
here. But in the 1980's SBC would have never dared to go up to
Chicago to hawk their wares. It just wouldn't do. That's why they had
to have their make believe company 'Cellular One' do it for them. I
know our local 'Cell One' is a Dobson thing, and they are on the 'B'
side here along with Alltel. PAT]

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