Uintah Basin Standard | 1962-05-17 | Page 2 | Mobile Phone is Now Available in UBTA System

Mobile phone is now available in system If you hear a telephone bell ring as you drive through don't be alarmed chances are It's one of the Uintah Basin Telephone new mobile telephone Installations in the car next to The new service utilizes radio and electronic telephone equipment developed by Motorola to provide fully automatic mobile radio-telephone In the the system is unique in Its The subscriber uses numbered pushbuttons instead of the conventional to call the wanted ers to the new service can call directly from their vehicles to any other telephone in the area or the Any regular telephone subscriber can call directly to any of the vehicles equipped with these new Each of these rolling telephones consists of the special pushbutton control telephone handset and a compact Motorola mobile At the telephone exchange the master radio base station connects directly to the dial telephone There is also a 70 foot antenna tower located near Randlett Stated in simple this is how the system When the mobile subscriber places his special tone codes are generated and These tones arc received by the telephone company radio station and translated into conventional dial pulses which are carried into the regular telephone When a telephone call Is placed to the mobile the reverse The dial pulses are translated into tone codes and transmitted by the telephone company radio When the tones are received by the called mobile a bell rings in that vehicle and the driver lifts his handset and To get complete simply call Roosevelt You'll be glad you