WASHINGTON-American Personal Communications unveiled a new device that helps next-generation pocket telephone firms optimize access to 2 GHz spectrum while they negotiate to move incumbent fixed microwave licensees off that band onto higher frequencies.
PathGuard remote measuring units, based on a new APC patent and built by Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Stanford Telecom, are designed to be installed at base station antenna sites of personal communications services systems.
APC, which was awarded a pioneer’s preference license to operate a PCS network in the Washington, D.C.-Baltimore region later this year, said the frequency-sharing technology has been licensed to Motorola Inc., Northern Telecom Ltd. and Ericsson Inc. at a below-cost rate.
APC is affiliated with a PCS partnership that includes Sprint Corp. and three major cable TV operators.
