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Article: Phone Firms Plan Cellular Data Network; System Would Aid Computer Mobility
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- April 22, 1992
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Nine leading telephone and cellular phone companies will
announce today a plan to permit data transmissions from portable
computers virtually nationwide.
The plan to be announced in Santa Clara, Calif., would give
portable computer users the same mobility that portable phone
customers now enjoy through cellular phone systems. Cab drivers
could accept credit cards. Salespeople could communicate with
home-office computers from customers' offices and power companies
could make remote checks of customers' home meters using this
technology.
The agreement involves a common technological blueprint for
wireless data transmission that all nine companies would adopt.
The companies cooperating ...