KIRKLAND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. launched its personal communications services network in Ohio’s Cleveland-Akron-Canton market using infrastructure provided by Lucent Technologies Inc.
The network uses Time Division Multiple Access technology, and the company is offering customers a dual-band/dual-mode phone manufactured by L.M. Ericsson.
AT&T Wireless also announced it is opening four new stores in conjunction with the service launch. Todd Wolfenbarger, a spokesman for AT&T Wireless, said the company has about 250 similar stores nationwide that offer AT&T Digital PCS service and products as well as other AT&T services.
The company also plans to distribute its products and services through other national and local retailers in northeast Ohio.
As part of the launch, AT&T is offering customers the ability to get their Cleveland home airtime rates in any AT&T Wireless or AT&T Wireless-affiliated markets in the United States until 2000.
The Ohio launch is the eighth of 10 markets the company committed to launching by the end of the year.
