Cingular Wireless to Provide Wireless Priority Service to Improve Emergency Communications
11 Août 2004 - 4:00PM
PR Newswire (US)
Cingular Wireless to Provide Wireless Priority Service to Improve
Emergency Communications ATLANTA, Aug. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Cingular
Wireless has been awarded a contract by the National Communications
System (NCS) to provide Wireless Priority Service (WPS) to the
country's authorized emergency response personnel. Cingular has
launched WPS in select markets and expects WPS to be deployed
across much of its network by the end of 2004. Total network
deployment will be complete by the summer of 2005. WPS provides
authorized Federal, State, and local government leaders and
critical private sector leaders and decision makers with priority
wireless service during times of emergency. In concert with the
Government Emergency Telecommunications Service (GETS), WPS
dramatically improves cellular call completion rates. In times of
congestion, authorized users are moved to the front of the queue,
greatly increasing their chances of call completion. At the same
time, WPS is designed to have a negligible impact on everyday
cellular users, providing priority service to vital decision makers
without restricting the public's ability to gain access to those
same networks. WPS does not enable users to preempt existing calls
or to monopolize cellular services. "WPS is an extremely important
tool to provide to key national security and emergency preparedness
personnel during disaster and emergency situations," said Brian
Fontes, Vice President of Federal Government Affairs. "Cingular
recognizes how vitally important WPS is to those who must direct
well-coordinated emergency responses. Cingular's commitment is to
improve homeland security by facilitating a faster, more widespread
deployment of WPS." Computer Sciences Corporation, the NCS's
integration contractor for the Government Emergency
Telecommunications Service and the Wireless Priority Service, was
responsible for the acquisition of Cingular as a participating WPS
provider. The National Communications System, part of the
Department of Homeland Security's Information Analysis and
Infrastructure Protection Directorate, consists of 23 Federal
member departments and agencies and is responsible for ensuring the
availability of a viable national security and emergency
preparedness (NS/EP) communications infrastructure. Additional
information regarding the NCS WPS program can be obtained on the
NCS website at http://wps.ncs.gov/ . About Cingular Wireless
Cingular Wireless, a joint venture between SBC Communications
(NYSE:SBC) and BellSouth (NYSE:BLS), serves more than 25 million
voice and data customers across the United States. A leader in
mobile voice and data communications, Cingular is the only U.S.
wireless carrier to offer Rollover(SM), the wireless plan that lets
customers keep their unused monthly minutes. Cingular is the
largest provider of GSM services in the United States, and has a
100 percent digital GSM/GPRS footprint across its service area. It
also launched the world's first commercial deployment of wireless
services using Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE)
technology. Cingular also provides corporate e-mail and other
advanced data services through its GPRS, EDGE and Mobitex packet
data networks. Details of the company are available at
http://www.cingular.com/ . Get Cingular Wireless press releases
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http://www.cingular.com/newsroom . DATASOURCE: Cingular Wireless
CONTACT: Clay Owen of Cingular, +1-404-236-6153, or Web site:
http://www.cingular.com/ http://wps.ncs.gov/
http://www.cingular.com/newsroom
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