Old IMTS phone
Q. I have an old IMTS phone, you know, pre-cellular. (internal link to mobile telephone pages.) Where can I use it?
A. (From Geoff Fors) "Sorry, None of the present former Bell affiliates offer IMTS car phone service to the best of my knowledge. The service ended when the manufacturers ceased supporting the equipment, among other reasons. That being said, at least one former Bell IMTS system is still in use in Pennsylvania / New Jersey, run by Bob Green. I think the name of one of them is Schuylkill Mobile Fone. Any remaining IMTS systems are more or less hobby systems rather than going concerns."
"As of the late 1990's the Whidbey Island Telephone Co. was still offering IMTS service but you had to rent the equipment from them, and it was very expensive, something like $ 85 per month plus air time. A self extinguishing business, basically."
"The low band Bell MTS phone channels on the West Coast were sold at FCC auction about a year ago. They went for practically nothing. The purchasers are at the moment trying to figure out what to do with them." Geoff