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The National Communications Systems (NCS) said Thurs. it had expa...

The National Communications Systems (NCS) said Thurs. it had expanded the wireless priority system (WPS) with T-Mobile USA to parts of the Northeast and Midwest following expansion earlier this year beyond the initial cities of Washington and N.Y. The…

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new cities include areas around Albuquerque, Austin, Chicago, Cincinnati, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Denver, Detroit, Honolulu, Milwaukee, Oklahoma City, Salt Lake City, Tulsa, Wichita. The program added 15 cities in Jan. John Graves, program dir. for WPS and the Govt. Emergency Telecom Service, said more T-Mobile markets would be added in coming months. He said NCS still was on track to add other GSM carriers “in the near future,” as well as eventual CDMA operators. The system is designed to give priority on wireless networks to national security and first responders in emergencies without bumping existing users off the system. T-Mobile was the first carrier for that service through a contract NCS signed with DynCorp.