
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, March 30, 1995                   TAG: 9503310010
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: B-8   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: HARRISONBURG                                LENGTH: Short

SHENANDOAH VALLEY TO GO WIRELESS

A Shenandoah Valley telephone company plans to run one of the newest types of telecommunications service along a 135-mile stretch of Interstate 81 in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania.

American Personal Communications said it has awarded a contract to Shenandoah Telecommunications Co. to build and operate a new type of wireless phone and data communications service along the I-81 corridor. The territory runs from Harrisonburg to the southern Pennsylvania town of Chambersburg.

Shenandoah Telecommunications will have to install radio towers along the highway, and will handle connections with wireless phone users through its switches and land lines, including a fiber-optics link that runs from Harrisonburg to the Pennsylvania state line.

The new personal communications service will compete with cellular telephones.

- Associated Press

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