Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihu1h.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ihu1h!parnass From: parnass@ihu1h.UUCP (Bob Parnass, AJ9S) Newsgroups: net.ham-radio Subject: GE Withdraws PRCS from FCC Message-ID: <416@ihu1h.UUCP> Date: Sun, 9-Dec-84 22:22:35 EST Article-I.D.: ihu1h.416 Posted: Sun Dec 9 22:22:35 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 10-Dec-84 06:36:41 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 34 From Radio Communications Report (International Thomson Com- munications, Inc.) December 3, 1984: GE WITHDRAWS PRCS FROM FCC SYRACUSE - The General Electric Co. has anounced it will no longer pursue development of its personal radio com- munications service [PRCS]...... The corporate move comes surprisingly close to an expec- ted FCC rulemaking on a proposed allocation of spectrum for the PRCS and a variety of other newly proposed servi- ces. GE was seeking 4 MHz of spectrum (898 - 902 MHz and 937 - 941 MHz) from the land mobile reserve spectrum..... The proposed radio service received mixed reviews within the land mobile radio industry, with comments ranging from "a poor man's cellular" to a sophisticated citizens band radio. GE's PRCS was actually a little of both. It proposed to offer low-priced two-way communications with the capabil- ity of interconnection to the public switched telephone network. The proposed service was expected to have a range of 5 miles up to 15 miles with a repeater..... Mura Corp. is also seeking FCC support for a "consumer radio service" using 900 MHz land mobile reserve frequen- cies. -- =============================================================================== Bob Parnass, Bell Telephone Laboratories - ihnp4!ihu1h!parnass - (312)979-5414