cellular license maps updated

See http://people.ku.edu/~cinema/wireless/regions.html

All regional maps have been brought up to date and should now reflect
the current cellular licensees for each market. In addition to numerous
small fixes and corrections, the latest round of updates reflects the
following major changes:

08/01/03 FL/GA ATTWS completes acquisition of 10 markets from USCC
09/23/03 AZ ALLTEL completes acquisition of 1 market from WWCA
10/16/03 IA Midwest Wireless completes acquisition of 3 markets from
Cellcom
01/11/04 MN/WI WWCA completes acquisition of 2 markets from HickoryTech
02/07/04 LA Cingular completes acquisition of 3 markets from US Unwired
02/17/04 MD Cingular completes acquisition of 1 market from Dobson
Cellular Systems
02/24/04 TX ATTWS completes acquisition of 6 markets from USCC
03/02/04 OR ATTWS completes acquisition of 1 market from Rural Cellular
Corporation

Please feel free to reply with your comments, corrections, and other
helpful contributions.

PS: The Cingular/ATTWS acquisition has not yet been completed, and the
maps will not be updated until the companies have formally merged and
the affected markets have actually transitioned ownership, so there's no
need to comment on these pending changes.

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In article <[email protected]>, XFF <[email protected]>
wrote:

> See http://people.ku.edu/~cinema/wireless/regions.html
>
> All regional maps have been brought up to date and should now reflect
> the current cellular licensees for each market. In addition to numerous
> small fixes and corrections, the latest round of updates reflects the
> following major changes:
>
> 08/01/03 FL/GA ATTWS completes acquisition of 10 markets from USCC
> 09/23/03 AZ ALLTEL completes acquisition of 1 market from WWCA
> 10/16/03 IA Midwest Wireless completes acquisition of 3 markets from
> Cellcom
> 01/11/04 MN/WI WWCA completes acquisition of 2 markets from HickoryTech
> 02/07/04 LA Cingular completes acquisition of 3 markets from US Unwired
> 02/17/04 MD Cingular completes acquisition of 1 market from Dobson
> Cellular Systems
> 02/24/04 TX ATTWS completes acquisition of 6 markets from USCC
> 03/02/04 OR ATTWS completes acquisition of 1 market from Rural Cellular
> Corporation
>
> Please feel free to reply with your comments, corrections, and other
> helpful contributions.
>
> PS: The Cingular/ATTWS acquisition has not yet been completed, and the
> maps will not be updated until the companies have formally merged and
> the affected markets have actually transitioned ownership, so there's no
> need to comment on these pending changes.


Apparently ATTWs has new all inclusive roaming agreements with Cingular.

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040414/nyw030_1.html

Robert M. wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>, XFF <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>
>>See http://people.ku.edu/~cinema/wireless/regions.html
>>
>>All regional maps have been brought up to date and should now reflect
>>the current cellular licensees for each market. In addition to numerous
>>small fixes and corrections, the latest round of updates reflects the
>>following major changes:
>>
>>08/01/03 FL/GA ATTWS completes acquisition of 10 markets from USCC
>>09/23/03 AZ ALLTEL completes acquisition of 1 market from WWCA
>>10/16/03 IA Midwest Wireless completes acquisition of 3 markets from
>>Cellcom
>>01/11/04 MN/WI WWCA completes acquisition of 2 markets from HickoryTech
>>02/07/04 LA Cingular completes acquisition of 3 markets from US Unwired
>>02/17/04 MD Cingular completes acquisition of 1 market from Dobson
>>Cellular Systems
>>02/24/04 TX ATTWS completes acquisition of 6 markets from USCC
>>03/02/04 OR ATTWS completes acquisition of 1 market from Rural Cellular
>>Corporation
>>
>>Please feel free to reply with your comments, corrections, and other
>>helpful contributions.
>>
>>PS: The Cingular/ATTWS acquisition has not yet been completed, and the
>>maps will not be updated until the companies have formally merged and
>>the affected markets have actually transitioned ownership, so there's no
>>need to comment on these pending changes.
>
>
>
> Apparently ATTWs has new all inclusive roaming agreements with Cingular.
>
> http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040414/nyw030_1.html
What does celluar "A side" & "B side" mean?

Casey

On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 17:05:08 GMT, Casey <[email protected]> wrote:

>What does celluar "A side" & "B side" mean?
>
>Casey

The original 800 MHz cellular band is actually two bands. These are
labeled "A" and "B". Originally, the "A" side was for cellular
companies who are non telephone company (non-Bell or non incumbent
LEC). The "B" side were typically telephone company owned or
regional/Baby Bell owned.

The 800 MHz band was originally analog (called AMPS or Advanced Mobile
Phone Service). These days the 800 MHz band can be AMPS, TDMA, CDMA or
GSM or any combination.

In modern times, the original structure has mostly faded away. With
modern deregulation and acquistions over a period of 20+ years, you'll
find telco owned cell systems on the A side and non telco on the B
side.

The PCS band (1900 Mhz) has up to 6 bands known as PCS "A" through PCS
"F". The PCS band has no analog, but can be any combination of any
digital format (TDMA, GSM, CDMA)

Typically, Verizon is on the cellular "B" side, Cingular and AT&T are
on the cellular "A" side. Sprint is always in the PCS band as is
T-Mobile.

But these days, it really doesn't matter who is where and many phones
are multi-band compatible. Verizon is in the cellular "A" band in
several markets. And in other markets, VZW, AT&T and Cingular are in
the 1900 MHz PCS bands. So the original order of things no longer hold
true.

Before anyone asks, Nextel, Nevada Wireless, Telus MIKE and Southern
LINC (and a couple of others) are a special cases. These use a
technology called iDEN (similar to TDMA) and are in a special
frequency band called the SMR (Specialized Mobile Radio) band which is
just below the 800 MHz cellular bands.

Dave

Casey <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...

> What does celluar "A side" & "B side" mean?

It refers to how the cellular spectrum is partitioned into two blocks
to allow for competition between 2 carriers in each market. See
http://wireless.fcc.gov/services/cel.../bandplan.html for
details.

XFF <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> See http://people.ku.edu/~cinema/wireless/regions.html
>
> All regional maps have been brought up to date and should now reflect
> the current cellular licensees for each market. In addition to numerous
> small fixes and corrections, the latest round of updates reflects the
> following major changes:

Or, if you should prefer a complete national perspective, the
nationwide Cellular Block A & Block B maps have now also been posted.

http://people.ku.edu/~cinema/wireless/Natl_Cell_A.html
http://people.ku.edu/~cinema/wireless/Natl_Cell_B.html

Everyone give XFF a virtual pat on the back!

Andrew
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http://www.ku.edu/home/cinema/