MCI plans consortium for new cellular service

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MCI Communications Corp announces its intention to put together a consortium that would build and run a countrywide network for a new cellular telephone service known as a personal communications network. MCI's plan is contingent on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approving regulations that would allow this type of network. MCI's announcement came as the FCC received final comments prior to its allocation of radio frequencies to the new industry, which would allow the use in urban areas of portable telephones smaller and less expensive than current cellular phones. MCI hopes its plan will persuade the FCC to favor a national network. Three other proposals would set up 47, 194 and 487 regional markets for the service. MCI's proposal is for three consortia to be awarded national licenses in a process of comparative hearings. A high filing fee would deter speculators. MCI would recruit regional Bell companies, specialized telecommunications carriers and equipment manufacturers for its consortium but probably would not solicit AT&T.

Radiotelephone communications, Innovations, Services, Cellular telephones, Wireless telephones, Cellular telephone services industry, Cellular telephone services, Product introduction, Personal communications services, MCI Communications Corp., MCIC, Consortia, Strategic Planning, New Technique, Consortium, Cellular radio

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Ameritech offers to end monopoly

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Ameritech offers to end its local monopoly of telephone services in the Midwest in exchange for approval to enter the more lucrative long-distance and cable-television markets. The company earned a revenue of $11.2 billion in 1992, mostly from its 12 million local telephone customers. Its proposal, if approved, will allow telephone users in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin to choose their local service providers, just as they are able to choose their long-distance telephone providers. Ameritech will file its proposal in Mar 1993 with the Federal Telecommunications Commission (FCC), the Justice Department and Judge Harold H. Greene of the US District Court, who oversaw the breakup of the Bell companies in 1984. In trying to enter the long-distance and cable-television markets, Ameritech will be up against such telecommunications giants as AT&T, MCI Communications, Tele-Communications Inc and Time Warner.

Telecommunications services industry, Telecommunications industry, Telephone companies, Business planning, Monopolies, Proposal, Telephone Company, Market Entry, Ameritech Corp.

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