DALLAS-Illinois PCS, an affiliate of Sprint Corp., will provide personal communications services under the Sprint PCS brand name using cdmaOne technology in central Illinois and the Quad Cities, including Davenport and Bettendorf, Iowa; and Rock Island and Moline, Ill.
Scheduled for commercial service in October, the Illinois PCS network will include Nortel Networks’ Code Division Multiple Access Metro Cell base stations and DMS-100 wireless switching equipment under a three-year agreement valued at $32 million.