CHAPEL HILL, S.C.-Northern Telecom Ltd. announced field trials of its personal communications services 1900 Smart Base Transceiver Station showed Smart BTS provides more than double the coverage of a conventional PCS 1900 cell site, reducing the number of cell sites required to provide PCS in a given area by 50 percent.
Nortel’s trials of the Smart BTS were with BellSouth Personal Communications in Chapel Hill and Raleigh, N.C., and American Personal Communications/Sprint Spectrum in Berryville, Va.
