European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 16, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Plans Are already afoot to put these Battlefield devices to work in everyday life on the Home peacetime applications of go portable communications equipment will help keep civilians in touch with their Homes and by Georg Meyers yank staff writer there Are jobs waiting in the postwar world for your old combat Walkie the Handi talkie and the tank inter civilians Are already eager to put these Battlefield devices to peacetime and after some hesitation the Federal communications commis Sion has told the big Telephone outfits they can prepare to peddle general Mobile Telephone ser vice after the the Bell Telephone which would like to sell or rent and install radio phone equip ment for new York cites 500 000 commercial delivery jobs and cabs and thinks that before 1955 at least vehicles will have Mobile the Bell engineers have made with the slide Rule and figured that office truck or dispatch Ert Ocab communications would save enough in Wear Andrear on tires and dead mileage to pay off quickly the equipment Cost that the present Price its expected to come Down later and toll charges on if the acc were moving As fast As Bell thinks it there would soon be a landline relay station 17v2 Miles on main by dealing Central and giving the approximate Posi Tion of your company you would be Able to talk to the Driver and Tell him that Mcdade in Hoboken wanted Only one Case instead of and please come Back by Way of Yonkers and try to shuck off the extra on old Man your voice would travel by Standard Telephone line to the relay station closest to the truck and then Spray out via radio Waves to the Drivers the Telephone people see special value to physicians in this kind of communications they say the Mobile phone will enable Doc Jones to Start out on his rounds in the morning and keep in touch with his nurse Back in the office at All in Case of emergency the acc Doest share Bells probably having a sneaking sympathy for the harried big City saw Bones who in prewar no intercom Days was Able to Duck out to Sun himself on a Park Bench or go for a furtive drive to Blue Creek for a half hour of if Bell has its Doc will be a gone if he rips the phone out of his car or stealthily tosses his Handi talkie on a salvation army nurse can still Send out a Book Mes or general alarm Call for wearing a Pinstripe suit and a Blue tie with potassium permanganate look for he is wanted in then somebody else with a Handi talkie can be counted on to spot the doctor and turn him in to his there Are doctors in new York City and there and in Boston this Mobile Tele phone arrangement is already in operation on a limited experimental and emergency if the idea Bell foresees the postwar Day when doctors in Many cities will be demanding the the company also proudly reports that several Large business concerns in various parts of the country have written to say that they Hope to see this Mobile phone stuff in for several it Hast been easy for Bells engineers to acc on the the commission has Felt that the additional Aid to communications was planned almost tirely for Large metropolitan areas without re Gard for the greater needs of Rural and Remote but the big rub is wartime advances in electronics have opened up a lot More space in the radio but when it comes to passing out frequency allocations to Standard police aviation coastal radio the acc is still somewhat in the position of the manager of a 100room hotel try ing to satisfy would be one Factor that helped persuade the acc to allocate space to the Telephone people was the belief that servicemen returning to civilian life would be used to Handi talkies and that one of the things that is going to give us the biggest said Lawrence then acc at a hearing called to hash Over allocations of radio frequencies for postwar those Fellows Are coming Back from abroad thinking they Are going to have radio communications in their Vest i spoke up radio Engineer for the american Telephone and Telegraph com that a lot of our men in the service who have experienced the Utility of Radoll in Mobile situations abroad will be rather surprised not to find the same convenience Over that did at any ryans crack about the surprised and presumably indignant Veteran seems to have helped Spur the acc to set aside 31 channels for Mobile the didst go All the Way with the Telephone which had asked not for 31 channels but for under the several frequencies were assigned to something called the citizens radio which is to occupy a space in the broadcast spectrum reserved for the general Mobile Telephone As we get this service will eventually handle things like enabling a Farmer to Call in the hired Haida from the plow without resorting to the  method of the hired hand is presumably to carry a transmitter receiver about the size of a plug of chewing Tor Bacco in his hip the assignment of even 31 frequencies was regarded by the acc As a major conces Sion to the spirit of Buck chairman for made it Clear that he was not con Vinced that the need for vehicular telephones and personal Handi talkies was important or urgent enough to justify the use of valuable radio fre particularly in cities where theres a drug store with a pay Booth on every other Cor to one Engineer who kept harping on the convenience of Mobile Fly said in not talking about in talking about urgent we can get along without you the Engineer to which the chairman perhaps too a lot of people apparently this retort caused All the acc men to look at each other and turn a Little be cause soon afterwards they dug up those frequencies for the Telephone people to play around the Utility of radio in 16