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NACS is working with Sprint Nextel to improve Sprint PCS coverage on the main campus. Sprint Nextel is adding Sprint PCS equipment to the existing Nextel site located at Engineering Tower. This should improve in-building coverage for Sprint where it has been poor.
NACS and other campus departments are also working with AT&T (formerly Cingular) to [...]
In 2001, the campus formed a committee to review the issue of cellular telephone sites on the UCI campus. These sites are required to support cell phone services — a given vendor must have a local installation to provide their users service. UCI had only a single Cingular site on campus at the time, and [...]
Pacific Bell Wireless, in cooperation with NACS’ Electronic Communications Services group, Campus Asset Management, and Facilities Management, has installed a digital cellular telephone cell site on the roof of Engineering Tower at UCI. The installation was completed during December. The new site affects users of Personal Communication Services (PCS) digital telephone service provided by Pacific [...]