Total Access Communication System

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First-generation Motorola 4500X mobile phone, which utilised ETACS Motorola 4500X.jpg
First-generation Motorola 4500X mobile phone, which utilised ETACS

Total Access Communication System (TACS) and ETACS are variants of Advanced Mobile Phone System (AMPS) which were announced as the choice for the first two UK national cellular systems in February 1983, less than a year after the UK government announced the T&Cs for the two competing mobile phone networks in June 1982. [1] This 1G technology is now obsolete.

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History

Vodafone (known then as Racal-Vodafone) opted for a £30 million turnkey contract [2] from Ericsson (ERA) to design, build and set up its initial network of 100 base station sites. [3]

Vodafone used CMS8810 equipment designed by Ericsson some of which was made under licence by Racal Carlton Nottingham Ericsson CMS8810 Rack as found in a Vodafone TACS basestation.jpg
Vodafone used CMS8810 equipment designed by Ericsson some of which was made under licence by Racal Carlton Nottingham

Cellnet (then known Telecom Securicor Cellular Radio Ltd) used development labs in the facilities at General Electric (later made part of Motorola) based at Lynchburg, Virginia, United States. The reason Cellnet used the General Electric labs was because the AMPS system was already in development there, and the company had set up a production facility in readiness for AMPS production in 1985 which the Cellnet TACS was to share. In March 1984 development of prototypes began at General Electric. Production began in 1985 and General Electric produced 20,000 systems that year for Cellnet's distribution in the UK. Production of what was to become the Motorola model were then made at Stotfold, Bedfordshire, England. This production facility continued making TACS until the advent of GSM.

TACS cellular phones were used in Europe (including the UK, Italy, Austria and Ireland) and other countries. TACS was also used in Japan under the name Japanese Total Access Communication (JTAC). [4] [5] It was also used in Hong Kong. [6] ETACS was an extended version of TACS with more channels.

TACS and ETACS are now obsolete in Europe, having been replaced by the GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) system. In the United Kingdom, the last ETACS service operated by Vodafone was discontinued on 31 May 2001, after 16 years of service. The competing service in the UK operated by Cellnet (latterly BT Cellnet) was closed on Sunday 1 October 2000.

Eircell (now Vodafone Ireland) closed its TACS network on 26 January 2001. This followed a long period during which customers were encouraged to switch to GSM services. When the network was closed, there were very few, if any, active TACS customers left. Customers who switched network were able to keep their phone number, but the (088) prefix was changed to either 087 (Eircell, now Vodafone Ireland) GSM or 086 (Esat Digifone, which became O2 Ireland before merging with Three) GSM. At the time, full mobile number portability was not available to TACS customers and the (088) prefix was closed. An automatic voice message was left in place for 12 months advising callers of the customer's new prefix.

Frequency bands used by ETACS in the UK

ChannelCell TX (MHz)Mobile TX (MHz)Notes
1935.0125890.012525 kHz spaced channels
23935.5625890.56251st of 21 dedicated vodafone control channels
24935.5650890.56502nd of 21 dedicated vodafone control channels
300942.4875898.06259.5 kHz peak speech fm deviation
323943.0625898.06251st of 21 dedicated cellnet control channels
600949.9875904.9875Last TACS channel, ETACS extended this to 1320 later

TACS BAND Summary

Base TX StartEnd (MHz)Mobile startEnd (MHz)Band
935950890905TACS 600 Channels
935960890915TACS 1000 Channels
917950872905E-TACS 1320 Channels

ESNs were issued in batches of 65535 by BABT for phone manufactures to program into each cellular phone to make each one unique to the TACS network with which it attempted to register.

The following countries had more than two batches of ESNs allocated to them: UK, Italy, Austria, China, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Bahrain, UAE, Kuwait, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Australia.

UK ETACS and US AMPS compared

FeatureTACSAMPS
Channel Spacing25 kHz30 kHz
Speech peak Freq Dev9.5 kHz12 kHz
Signalling FSK peak Freq Dev6.4 kHz8 kHz
Signalling rate8 kbit/s10 kbit/s
SAT 05970 Hz5970 Hz
SAT 16000 Hz6000 Hz
SAT 26030 Hz6030 Hz
ST8000 Hz10000 Hz
Mobile TX pwr MAC 010 W4 W
Mobile TX pwr MAC 11.6 W1.6 W
Mobile TX pwr MAC 2630 mW630 mW
Mobile TX pwr MAC 3250 mW250 mW
Mobile TX pwr MAC 4100 mW100 mW
Mobile TX pwr MAC 540 mW40 mW
Mobile TX pwr MAC 616 mW16 mW
Mobile TX pwr MAC 76.3 mW6.3 mW

Commercial deployments

CountryOperator(s) ƒ (MHz)Launch dateEnd of serviceNotes
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom

Flag of Jersey.svg  Jersey

Vodafone

Cellnet
Jersey Telecom

Jan 1985

Jan 1985
1987

May 2001 [7]

Oct 2000
1999

 [8]
Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland Eircell Dec 1985Jan 2001 [8]
Flag of Hong Kong.svg  Hong Kong CSL Mobile

Hutchison Telecom

1987May 1996 [9] [10] [11]
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China China Mobile Nov 1987 [12] Dec 2001 [13] [14] [15]
Flag of Macau.svg  Macau CTM Nov 1988 [16] Feb 2001 [17] [18]
Flag of Sri Lanka.svg  Sri Lanka Celltel 19892006 [19] [18]
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan DDI Jul 1989 [20] Sep 2000 [21] [18]
Flag of Malaysia.svg  Malaysia Celcom 1989Named ART-900. [22] [18]
Flag of Mauritania.svg  Mauritania 1989 [18]
Flag of the United Arab Emirates.svg  United Arab Emirates 1989 [18]
Flag of Ghana.svg  Ghana [23]
Flag of Bahrain.svg  Bahrain [23]
Flag of Kuwait.svg  Kuwait [23]
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy TIM  [ en; it ]Apr 1990Dec 2005 [24] [25] [8]
Flag of Spain.svg  Spain MoviLine  [ es ]Apr 1990Dec 2004 [26] Named TMA-900. [8]
Flag of Austria.svg  Austria Mobilkom Jul 1990Feb 2002 [27] [23]
Flag of Malta.svg  Malta [23]
Flag of Nigeria.svg  Nigeria 1991 [23]
Flag of Singapore.svg  Singapore 1991 [23]
Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 1992 [23]
Flag of Mauritius.svg  Mauritius [23]

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