Ameritech Cellular Services announced it has successfully completed a 15-month test of its Code Division Multiple Access network in Illinois. ClearPath, the new name for the system, was tested in a seven-cell test bed reaching from the company’s headquarters in Hoffman Estates to Woodstock, Ill., a distance of about 30 miles.
Actor Bill Richmond, a regular on Ameritech’s Test Town television commercials, placed the first digital call on the network to Woodstock Acting Mayor Joan Mansfield. Ameritech said it plans to make the system commercially available in the first half of 1997.
The cell sites in the test bed used infrastructure provided by Lucent Technologies Inc. and handsets manufactured by Qualcomm Inc.
Shell Oil to offer antenna property
Message Center Management, an antenna site management and wireless system development company, will offer 4,200 antenna tower sites on Shell Oil Products Co. properties across the United States. The sites, available to the wireless industry, are commercially zoned, accessible and provide ease of entry into a market area, Message Center said.
