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Joseph wrote:
>>If they still list AirTouch then the data is probably way out of date.
>>
>>AirTouch hasn't been AirTouch since about four years ago.
>
>
> Steve, you need to get with the program! Have you looked at the
> listings at NANPA.com?
Alright, I *know* AirTouch may still be listed as the the licensee. Hell, the
FCC says my local Clear Channel radio stations are licensed to Capstar, and
Clear Channel bought Capstar several years ago. In both cases, it's likely that
the new licensee wanted to avoid paperwork and continued to file under the old
name. No legal issues, since Clear Channel bought Capstar outright and owns all
of their licenses, and Verizon maintains all of the old Airtouch licenses that
weren't sold off. In fact, some of the Cleveland-area Verizon Wireless
exchanges are still listed as being allocated to Newpar Cellular! (Newpar used
to be CellularONE in Cleveland many years ago, and subsequently flipped over to
become Northeast Ohio's AirTouch franchise).
My issue isn't with the companies holding the licenses, my issue is with the
site listing them as Primeco, or AirTouch, or Bell Atlantic. They *SHOULD*
cross-reference it as Verizon too...
> they can as well. I do not know the reason why the different
> companies are listed the way they are but the fact remains that they
> are listed that way.
Probably to avoid extra paperwork and expenses to switch the licenses over. I
can understand why they'd want to do that ESPECIALLY in the case of Verizon
where literally hundreds of different chunks of network were involved.
> T-Mobile may be listed as Omnipoint, Aerial, or
> Powertel in addition to T-Mobile.
Or VoiceStream. At any rate, it looks like they have updated the data recently,
it says the last update was this past March; but if so, they should have some
sort of cross-reference pointing out that if the licensee is AirTouch, for
example, that it is currently maintained by VZW.
And yes, I'd love to see the FCC AM/FM/TV database show the same sort of xrefs,
though that is never gonna happen. Do you know how many smaller broadcasters
Clear Channel has snapped up? Back to Cleveland again for an example - there
are a few stations that changed hands three or four times in the latter part of
the 1990s... I could name them, but I'd prefer to stay on-topic
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