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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedSMR 'sideshow' remains strong.
RCR Wireless News, October, 2001 by BECKMAN, KRISTEN
The U.S. specialized mobile radio industry often has been thought of as cellular's sideshow since the two services were created in the 1970s. Cellular has attracted headlines with its staggering growth and revolutionary services, while SMR has trudged along quietly, providing a less-sexy, but still important, service to business users.
In 1974, the Federal Communications Commission established rules that created the two new commercial wireless services. Cellular, envisioned as a mobile person-to-person communications service that could eventually compete with the wired telephone network, was classified as a common carrier business. SMR, on the other hand, was designed to allow a third-party carrier to provide business communications previously handled on...
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