AirTouch Cellular customers in Wyoming now can receive Caller ID service. Users of narrowband Advance Mobile Phone Service phones with Caller ID capability can see who is calling when their phone rings. AirTouch said it is offering free Caller ID service to customers on select price plans until July 5. The service will be $3 a month thereafter.
BellSouth Wireless Data said it will provide to Virginia Power a two-way wireless data communications solution designed to enhance dispatching operations that cover some 800 utility workers in the field. The value of the contract was not disclosed. Virginia Power is a subsidiary of Dominion Resources Inc. and operates in North Carolina and Virginia.
Motorola Inc.’s Paging Systems Group said it will provide Kansas Cellular Paging with a statewide FLEX network. The contract value was not disclosed. The new network will enable the carrier to resell paging services to other operators, such as AirTouch Cellular, which recently said it plans to extend paging service to customers in Kansas via the Kansas Cellular, said Motorola.
AirTouch Cellular completed a new cellular transmission site that expands and improves cellular coverage areas around Stuart, Menlo and Dexter, Iowa; and along Interstate 80 between the Dexter/Redfield and Casey exits, the company said.
Nokia Corp. signed a multi-year contract valued at $30 million to supply Iowa Wireless Services L.P. a complete 1900 MHz Global System for Mobile communications network. Equipment deliveries are scheduled to begin in July, and the network is expected to go live by the end of 1998, Nokia said. IWS plans to make personal communications services available to 2.3 million people in Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, Illinois, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
Personal communications services provider Omnipoint Communications Inc. last week launched Global System for Mobile communications-based wireless service in upstate New York. Coverage includes Syracuse, N.Y., and an approximate 50-square mile area encompassing Albany, Troy and Schenectady, N.Y. The pricing plan does not have packaged minutes. Instead, customers pay only for the minutes they use, and savings are automatic with increased usage, said Cedar Knolls, N.J.-based Omnipoint.
