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29-591: DataTAC is an open standard for point to point wireless data communications, similar to Mobitex . Like Mobitex, it is mainly used in vertical market applications. One of the early DataTAC devices was the Newton Messaging Card , a two-way pager connected to a PC card using the DataTAC network. The original BlackBerry devices, the RIM 850 and 857 also used the DataTAC network. In North America, DataTAC

58-509: A 40% stake in the resulting company, Cingular Wireless . The new company provided a large percentage of BellSouth's revenue. This joint venture continued after SBC purchased the old AT&T and rebranded as AT&T Inc. Continued increase of broadband penetration and applications in the consumer market was a key strategy to the company. These activities were being funded in part by the sale of Latin America operations. BellSouth became

87-472: A Mobitex-based gateway software developed in the early nineties by Ian Lane and Andy Lambert. Despite the competitive nature of the vehicle recovery market in the UK, motoring organisations were persuaded to co-operate and make a standard of the format. This resulted in a major saving for the eight hundred independent garages used by the motoring organisations. The Turbo Dispatch Standards Group (the official keepers of

116-486: A merger announced on March 5, 2006, and executed on December 29, 2006, AT&T Inc. (originally SBC Communications) acquired BellSouth for approximately $ 86 billion (1.325 shares of AT&T for each share of BellSouth). The merger also consolidated ownership of Cingular Wireless and Yellowpages.com , both of which were joint ventures between BellSouth and AT&T. With the merger completed, wireless services previously offered by Cingular Wireless were then offered under

145-969: A single operating company in the BellSouth territory, and fully reunited Southern Bell and South Central Bell. However, BellSouth continued using the Southern Bell name in the eastern portion of its territory and the South Central Bell name in the western portion until 1998, when it adopted BellSouth as the sole customer-facing brand. The company maintained its largest operation centers in Atlanta and Birmingham. Region-wide headquarters operations were also primarily in Atlanta and Birmingham. Statewide operations centers were located in Birmingham, Miami, Atlanta, Louisville, New Orleans, Jackson, Charlotte, Columbia, and Nashville. BellSouth Mobility

174-504: A very reliable and useful system for first responders. Mobitex is a packet-switched , narrowband , data-only technology mainly for short burst data. Mobitex channels are 12.5 kHz wide. In North America, Mobitex ran at 900 MHz , while in Europe it uses 400 - 450 MHz . The modulation scheme used is GMSK with a slotted aloha protocol at 8000 bit/s , although user throughput is typically around half of that. The network provided

203-677: Is an OSI based open standard , national public access wireless packet-switched data network. Mobitex puts great emphasis on safety and reliability with its use by military, police, firefighters and ambulance services. It was developed in the beginning of the 1980s by the Swedish Televerket Radio. From 1988, the development took place in Eritel, a joint-venture between Ericsson and Televerket, later on as an Ericsson subsidiary. Mobitex became operational in Sweden in 1986. In

232-405: Is typically better than with newer, higher frequency networks. In the 1990s a DataTAC network operators group was put together by Motorola called Worldwide Wireless Data Networks Operators Group (WWDNOG) chaired by Shahram Mehraban, Motorola's DataTAC system product manager. This computer networking article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Mobitex Mobitex

261-427: Is typically deployed in the 800 MHz band. DataTAC was also deployed in the same band by Telecom Australia (now Telstra ). The DataTAC network runs at speeds up to 19.2 kbit/s, which is not sufficient to handle most of the wireless data applications available today. The network runs 25 kHz channels in the 800 MHz frequency bands. Due to the lower frequency bands that DataTAC uses, in-building coverage

290-619: The National Security Agency for all international and domestic calls. This data, the article claimed, is being used to create, "the largest database ever assembled ." On May 16, 2006, BellSouth released a retraction claiming that no contract with the NSA existed and that they had never provided information such as calling records to the NSA. USA Today posted an update on June 30, 2006, stating that: "On May 15, BellSouth said it could not categorically deny participation in

319-960: The AT&;T name, and BellSouth Telecommunications (a subsidiary of a Bell Operating Company ) began doing business as AT&T Southeast . BellSouth was the last of the Regional Bell Operating Companies to keep its original corporate name after the 1984 AT&T breakup, as well as the last one to retain the Bell logo as part of its main corporate identity. BellSouth also operated in Latin America in Argentina, Australia, Chile , Colombia , Ecuador , Guatemala , New Zealand, Nicaragua , Panama, Peru , Uruguay and Venezuela. BellSouth operated in New Zealand under

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348-463: The BellSouth brand. It also previously maintained a history page at bellsouth.com/servicemarks, which displayed its former and recent BellSouth logo usage. As of January 1, 2006, BellSouth customers no longer receive caller ID information from Sprint PCS customers. Any incoming call originating from a Sprint PCS cell phone will usually display the City, State format on the caller ID display instead of

377-684: The Communications Group, Domestic Wireless, and Advertising and Publishing. The communications group operated two wholly-owned subsidiaries, BellSouth Telecommunications Inc. (BST) and BellSouth Long Distance, Inc. (BSLD) . The main marketing groups for the communications group were consumer, small business, large business, and interconnection (wholesale services). The communications group provided wireline communications services, including local exchange, network access, intraLATA long-distance services, and Internet services, as well as long-distance services. The advertising and publishing group

406-626: The US (AMS). BellSouth BellSouth, LLC (stylized as BELL SOUTH and formerly known as BellSouth Corporation ) was an American telecommunications holding company based in Atlanta, Georgia . BellSouth was one of the seven original Regional Bell Operating Companies after the U.S. Department of Justice forced the American Telephone & Telegraph Company to divest itself of its regional telephone companies on January 1, 1984. In

435-571: The breakup of the old AT&T during 1984, BellSouth was formed as the holding company for the telephone operating companies in the southern portion of the old Bell System —Atlanta-based Southern Bell and Birmingham, Alabama -based South Central Bell . The creation of BellSouth, in effect, reunited most telephone service in the Southeastern United States. Southern Bell had been the Bell System operating company for

464-484: The consumer to fight either with their own carrier or through government regulatory commissions for what they should have displayed on their caller ID device. In 2002, Sprint and SBC Communications could not come to an agreement on fees charged to carriers to look up the caller name information. In 2006, USA Today published an article which erroneously claimed that three of the largest United States carriers, including BellSouth, had been supplying calling records to

493-412: The entire Southeast until 1967, when the western portion of its service territory became South Central Bell. BellSouth formed a shared services company, BellSouth Services, to provide centralized functions such as engineering and information technology to Southern Bell and South Central Bell. Services provided in the BellSouth operating area include telephone and DSL / Dial-Up Internet services in

522-404: The first "Baby Bell" that did not operate pay telephones . By 2003, BellSouth's payphone operation was discontinued because it had become too unprofitable, most likely due to the increased availability of cell phones. Cincinnati Bell has taken BellSouth's place for payphones in northern BellSouth territory; independents have set in further south. BellSouth's main operating units at its end were

551-464: The first public access wireless data communication services in North America. Subscriber services included electronic messaging with Cc capabilities to multiple recipients, combined with the ability to log on to any wireless or fixed terminal and receive stored mailbox messages. Mobitex was offered on over 30 networks on five continents. European Mobitex networks almost completely withered in

580-552: The mid-1990s, Mobitex gained consumer popularity by providing two-way paging network services. It was the first wireless network to provide always on, wireless push email services such as RadioMail and Inter@ctive Paging . It is also used by the first model of Research in Motion's BlackBerry , and PDAs such as the Palm VII . During 9/11 and the 2005 hurricane rescue and clean-up operations, Mobitex proved itself to be

609-473: The name of BellSouth New Zealand Limited from 1993 until 1998 when it was acquired by Vodafone to become Vodafone New Zealand . It competed against Telecom New Zealand . Its operations in Australia were under the name of BellSouth Australia Pty Limited . All of Bellsouth's operations in Latin America were acquired by Telefonica in late 2004 for nearly $ 5.85 billion, and became Movistar . As part of

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638-411: The name or business name associated with that number. Based on a 1996 agreement between Sprint and BellSouth, it is likely that this is a result of a ten-year contract. In 2003, Sprint sued BellSouth for $ 20 million as a result of Sprint claiming Bellsouth violated a 1996 contract by not providing Sprint caller-identification information to BellSouth customers. Similar caller ID "deals" have been left to

667-651: The network is operated by American Messaging Services, LLC (AMS) and remains operational. Mobitex in the UK was marketed by RAM Mobile Data, the UK part of which was purchased from BellSouth (USA) by Twenty First Century Ltd (John Camilleri and Adrian Nicolle) in 2000, that became Transcomm and was then purchased by BT (British Telecom) in 2004. The uses of Mobitex in the United Kingdom were all emergencies (blue light) services, couriers, vehicle telematics (logistics), vending (parking) and vehicle breakdown services (RAC, AA, Green Flag). All UK ambulance services used

696-527: The network to dispatch crews and track progress. The London Metropolitan Police used Mobitex to access the police criminal record database whilst in field and in real time, revolutionary at the time. During the 7/7 terrorist attacks in London, the Transcomm Network was the only wireless network which kept running. Nearly all breakdowns to Green Flag UK service agents were sent using Turbo Dispatch ,

725-417: The shadow of the overwhelming success of GSM there in the early 1990s. In Canada, it was first introduced in 1990 by Rogers Cantel , and in 1991 by carrier RAM Mobile Data . In earlier days Mobitex networks in the US were marketed under several names, including RAM Mobile Data, BellSouth Wireless Data, Cingular Wireless and Velocita Wireless following several acquisitions and divestments. Since 2013

754-664: The standard) estimated that at least twenty million breakdowns and recoveries were transmitted over Turbo Dispatch each year. BT subsidiary Transcomm announced the shutdown of the network in 2010. In Sweden, the Mobitex network was finally shut down permanently on December 31, 2012 after 25 years. As of 2020 , Mobitex is mainly used in Belgium, the Netherlands (both RAM Mobile Data ) (including network coverage of Luxembourg), Hong Kong (Telecom Digital Data Ltd), Canada (Rogers) and

783-570: The states of Alabama , Florida , Georgia , Kentucky , Louisiana , Mississippi , North Carolina , South Carolina , and Tennessee . Satellite television service was provided as a partnership with DirecTV . Cable television (often via MMDS ) was provided in limited markets as BellSouth Entertainment (as part of the Americast venture). In 1992, BellSouth merged South Central Bell and BellSouth Services into Southern Bell, which changed its name to BellSouth Telecommunications . This created

812-597: Was based in Atlanta, Georgia and Birmingham, Alabama. In August 1998, BellSouth launched FastAccess DSL, their broadband service provided through a DSL connection, initially launched in the Atlanta , Birmingham , Charlotte , Miami / Ft. Lauderdale , Jacksonville , New Orleans and Raleigh / Durham areas. Eventually, it became available in all of BellSouth's service area. Toward its end, BellSouth realigned itself in two important areas, wireless and broadband . In 2001, they merged BellSouth Mobility , their wireless enterprise, with SBC 's wireless services, and took

841-405: Was responsible for printing and distributing telephone books, selling advertising, and operating online electronic directories. The BellSouth – SBC/AT&T relationship went further than just Cingular Wireless. BellSouth & SBC/AT&T also co-owned yellowpages.com (formerly RealPages.com and SmartPages.com). BellSouth licensed its trademark to US Electronics, which produced telephones under

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