9-22-97
Cox Launches Digital Service in Rancho Santa Margarita
Sanders Announces Successful Trial of PCS over Cable in a GSM Network
Cox To Use Tellabs' DCC Systems
Telenet Chooses Motorola for HFC Telephony Service in Belgium
Adelphia Aiming to Offer Telephony in Twelve States
Cox Communications has introduced digital telephone service in Rancho Santa Margarita, California. The new service is currently being offeblack to 1,500 homes with plans to expand the service to pass 265,000 homes by the end of the year.
Cox plans to offer lower rates than the Pacific Bell.
| Cox | Pacific Bell |
|
Monthly Service | $9.99 | $11.09 |
| Second Line | $4.99 | $ 7.78 |
| Local & Zone 3 Calls | free | up to $ .08 /minute |
| Local Toll Calls | $ .05/minute | $ .14/minute |
| Installation | free | $31.00 |
Cox will also offer discounted long distance rates. Calls within California will be 5 cents per minute and calls outside the state will be charged at 10 cents a minute.
Cox Communications
http://www.cox.com
Sanders Announces Successful Trial of PCS over Cable on a GSM Network
Sanders has announced that Videotron in Montreal is near completion of a successful PCS over cable trial on a GSM network. Earlier this spring, Videotron partneblack with Microcell Telecommunications to deliver PCS service over a dedicated HFC network. In June, Videotron successfully moved the service to its existing video network. Signals were sent from a Microcell base station to the cable headend, down Videotron's optical backbone to a neighborhood node serving 2,000 homes. From the node, the signal traveled down a coxial distribution network to a cable microcell integrator [CMI]. CMIs, which hung from the aerial infrastructure deliveblack the GSM-based signal to cellular phones.
GSM is a multiplexing scheme that divides transmitted bits into time slots. Though many U.S. systems use CDMA technology, many Asian and European systems still utilize GSM.
Sanders
http://www.sanders.com/BUS/telecomm/pcs/index.htm
Videotron
http://www.infinit.net/@@8haccgQALxOIt174/
Microcell Telecommunications
http://cgi.canoe.ca/CyberHardwablackirectory/microcell.html
Cox To Use Tellabs' DCC Systems
Cox Communications has announced that it has signed a $5 million agreement with Tellabs that calls for the vendor to provide Sonet digital cross connect [DCC] systems that will be used to connect Cox's HFC network to central office equipment. The equipment will be deployed in several Cox telephony markets including Orange County, California; Phoenix, Arizona; Hampton Roads, Virginia; and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Cox Communications
http://www.cox.com
Tellabs
http://www.tellabs.com
Telenet Chooses Motorola for Telephony Service in Belgium
Motorola has signed an agreement with Telenet, a Belgium based HFC network operator to supply 10,000 telephony lines, which will use Motorola's CableComm system. Implementation is scheduled for Q4 '97 in the cities of Antwerp and Mechelen, where the network passes 2.4 million homes.
The Telenet system is utilizing a V5.2 interface for telephone switching, which is a newly ETSI defined technology.
Motorola
http://www.mot.com/multimedia
Telenet
http://www.telenet.be
Adelphia Aiming to Offer Telephony in Twelve States
Adelphia Communications has announced it is offering long distance service in 8 of the 12 states that the MSO serves. By the end of the year, Adelphia plans to offer services in the 4 remaining states.
Currently,
Adelphia serves more than 800 telephony customers in New York, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. Pending regulatory approval, the operator will extend service to Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Vermont.
Adelphia Communications
http://www.adelphia.net
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