ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.-Western Wireless Corp. has turned on a personal communications services network in the Albuquerque, N.M.-El Paso, Texas, major trading area.
The company’s service is branded VoiceStream Wireless and is available from the town of Espanola, north of Santa Fe, to Socorro, south of Albuquerque.
By the end of 1997, VoiceStream service is scheduled to be extended to all of New Mexico’s major cities and highways, as well as to El Paso on New Mexico’s southern border.
Western Wireless also is a cellular operator in Texas markets east of El Paso, including Midland, Odessa, Abilene and San Angelo.
The New Mexico system uses Global System for Mobile communications technology, known in the United States as PCS 1900. Northern Telecom Ltd. designed and built the network for Western Wireless.
Commercial PCS service has been turned on in four other U.S. markets: Washington, D.C./Baltimore, Honolulu, Salt Lake City and North Carolina/Tennessee/South Carolina.
