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MPULSE expands with new cell sites
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Posted on May 08 2006
TAMUNING, Guam—MPULSE™, Guam’s newest mobile phone network, has expanded its coverage with the recent installation of new cell tower sites in central Guam.
The new cell site locations include Nimitz Hill in Piti, Oka Point in Tamuning and Machanaonao, Dededo. Service from these sites was activated in April. MPULSE mobile customers can now experience improved wireless phone reception in these areas.
MPULSE and other carriers on Guam also introduced wireless Local Number Portability (LNP) on May 2, 2006 whereby wireless phone users are able to keep their phone numbers even as they change service providers. With number portability now available on the island, Guam’s wireless phone users join their counterparts in major markets in the mainland U.S. in having the advantage and convenience of keeping their same mobile phone number even if they switch wireless service providers. Since earlier this year, GTA Telecom LLC, the local exchange carrier arm of TeleGuam Holdings, upgraded its infrastructure in readiness for this development.
MPULSE engineers and technicians are now gearing for the next phase of new cell towers to be erected as well as working on inter-carrier and international short messaging service, or SMS, for MPULSE phone users. The locations for the next new cell sites include Yigo, Yona, Ritidian Point and Malojloj. The later phases of tower erections will include the southern parts of Guam.
TeleGuam Holdings, LLC, in partnership with Shamrock Holdings and General Electric, purchased the assets of the Guam Telephone Authority on Jan. 2, 2005.
TeleGuam Holdings, LLC is doing business as GTA. GTA is Guam’s leading full-service telecommunications company providing fixed landline communications to nearly 65,000 business and residential customers; MPULSE™ mobile phone service with advanced GSM technology, cost effective long-distance, dial-up and broadband Internet service and digital TV. With a diverse work force of 350, GTA is poised to bring the best and most economic telecommunication products and services to Guam and the region. For more information, visit www.mpulsemobile.net or www.MoveWithIt.com. (PR)
