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Submitted: February 15, 2008 - 9:22am
Last updated: February 21, 2008 - 12:10pm
Last updated: February 21, 2008 - 12:10pm
MOST ANALOG CELLULAR TO FADE AWAY ON MONDAY
[SOURCE: InfoWorld, AUTHOR: Stephen Lawson]
On Monday, the Federal Communications Commission will let mobile operators shut down their analog networks. It's called the "analog sunset" because those Advanced Mobile Phone System networks, which were first deployed in the 1980s and brought cellular service to millions of Americans, will finally disappear behind the digital networks that serve almost all mobile phones in use today.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/02/14/Most-analog-cellular-to-fade-away-on-Monday_1.html
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