APC, first PCS system, launches in MD.-D.C. area. (American Personal Communications Inc.; personal communications service; Maryland; District of Columbia)
Multichannel News, November, 1995 by Gibbons, Kent
APC subscribers can only call other APC customers. The first personal communications service launched last week, built by American Personal Communications Inc., in the Washington-Baltimore market. APC, 49 percent-owned by the Sprint Telecommunications Venture (STV), achieved its goal of a fall launch by building more than 260 of its planned 300 transmission "cells" to carry calls over a digital wireless network.
The service will take on incumbents Bell Atlantic Corp., Nynex Mobile and SBC Communications Inc. for a share of the wireless-phone market. In addition to facing powerful competitors, APC has the disadvantage of being a technological island. APC has the nation's first PCS 1900 system, designed by Ericsson Inc. and based on the European standard...
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