CHICAGO-Cellular One of Chicago is introducing FreedomPlus one-number service to its cellular customers.
Cellular One of Chicago, a subsidiary of Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems, said the phone acts as a cordless phone at home or work, operating on the landline network, and automaticaly becomes a cellular phone when outside those ranges.
The system uses Motorola Inc.’s Personal Base station and a flip handset. To activate the system, users plug the Personal Base into a standard wall phone jack. Other features include phone and page intercom capability and rapid charging.
BellSouth Mobility provides coverage for 34th GSM MoU
ATLANTA-BellSouth Mobility DCS (a subsidiary of BellSouth Corp.), Lucent Technologies Inc. and the Swiss PTT worked together to provide Global System for Mobile communications coverage at the 34th GSM MoU Association meeting in Atlanta last week.
The companies said this was the first time the Plenary GSM MoU Association had met in the United States. All 275 delegates from around the world were encouraged to bring their GSM handsets and were able to make and receive calls worldwide while in the hotel and conference center during the meeting, as long as their cellular operator had a roaming agreement with the Swiss PTT.
Correction
A photo of a Motorola Inc. personal communications services phone was misidentified in the May 27 issue of RCR. It is a member of the Flare product family, uses Global System for Mobile communications technology, and is being offered by Sprint Spectrum in Washington, D.C.
