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Show Basin Benefits .... Mt. States Telephone Will Aid Oil Progress With Mobile Unit T!he Mountain States Telephone Tele-phone and Telegraph Company will give a lift to oil exploration explora-tion and development in the Utah section of the booming 'Uintah Basin by establishing mobile mo-bile telephone service, W. H. Morton, Ogden district manager, announced today. The manager stated that this is the fifth city to receive this type service in the entire company com-pany and the second in Utah. Only four other cities. Phoenix, Tucson, Denver and Salt Lake City, have this service now, he said. Mobile telephones allow calls to or from any equipped vehicle within operating range. More than 10,000 already are in use throughout the nation Morton said that mobile telephone service ser-vice is especially adapted to meet needs of firms doing business busi-ness in widely separated, remote re-mote locations but who require frequent contact with, headquarters headquar-ters at nearby or distant cities. They are popular among oilmen, oil-men, salesmen, ranchers, farmers, farm-ers, contractors, construction workers, miners and other persons per-sons whose business keeps them constantly on the move. "We expect to have the first mobile units in operation by early next year," Morton explained. ex-plained. "We're starting with one channel which will be assigned as-signed to the same frequency as the existing mobile services now operating in Salt Lake City and Denver. Under th's arrangement, any subscriber with a vehicle equipped with mobile service in one, of these areas may have the use of telephone tele-phone service a3 he travels into either of the other two areas. "We are installing this ultramodern ultra-modern service," Morton explained, ex-plained, "not only to supply oil companies developing the Basin, but to supply all accessory outfits, out-fits, such as exploration and wildcat crews. And we will also supply all . other types of busi- . " - nesses who want the service." ' The mobile service will use both radio and telephone Iine3. The radio transmitter and receiver re-ceiver equipment will be located on Asphalt Ridge,' four miles . , southwest of Vernal. Construe-" tion of six miles of telephone line will be required to connect it into the switchboard at the Vernal central office. After the units are in operation, oper-ation, anyone will be able to (Continued on back page) Fdlokile Telephone (Continued from page 1) pick up a telephone and talk from a regular telephone to a mobile telephone. Likewise, a mobile telephone can be connected con-nected with any regular telephone, tele-phone, or two mobile telephones can be connected. The 60-watt base station will carry voices for 30 to' 60 miles, depending on the terrain. Each mobile unit, which is about the size of an ordinary overnight suitcase, will have a power of 30 watts. Telephone numbers for this service will resemble call letters let-ters on radio stations. A typical number would be WJ6-2924. The driver of a mobile telephone-equipped v e h i c 1 e will place all calls through the Vernal Ver-nal mobile operator. In a typical call from a regular regu-lar telephone to a mobile unit, the person placing the call gives the number of the mobile unit let's say WJ6-2924 to the mobile mo-bile operator at Vernal. She rings the telephone bell mounted mount-ed under the dashboard in that particular vehicle. A lamp on the instrument panel is illuminated illum-inated and remains on until the telephone is answered. The driver pulls over to' the curb, if in motion, lifts the receiver, and the conversation begins. To place a call, a mobile subscriber sub-scriber removes the instrument from its cradle, listens to make certain that the radio channel is not busy, and then depresses a. button to contact the mobi'e service operator. He then places the call with her in the same manner as he would any other call. To get from any regular telephone tele-phone to the vehicle, the caller's voice travels by wire to the transmitting tower and then by radio. The voice of the driver travels back by radio from the vehicle to the receiving station, and from there it goes hj wir to the central office. Any mobile user tttv orir'v nate or receive a Ions distance call. Thus he may talk to anyone any-one in Roosevelt, Duchesne. Rangely, or any other point reached by regular long distance circuits. All equipment is owned and maintained by the telephone company, with the subscriber paying only installation andj monthly charges. Cost of the equipment necessary neces-sary for this service has been estimated at about $75,000.00. |