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one for 1.:20 a day from a 'Litanies Valley firm which claims to be the first company to make a day-hire offer.
Vodarent Cellular Tele phone !lire of Racal Vodafone equipment, which was introduced this year.
Two Leyland Freighters 16.17s, fitted with cellular phones, have been supplied to Starbake Bakeries of Rogerstone, Gwent under contract hire by Watts Truck Centre of Gloucester.
The phones are NEC 2000 models and operate on the Racal Vodafone network.
• The Cellnet mobile cellular phone service, operated by Telecom Securicor Ceullular Radio — a British TelecomSecuricor joint venture company — is now available to subscribers in Newcastle upon 'I'yne.
The first cell will cover the central and eastern parts of Newcastle, reaching Gates head, the north of Sunderland and South Shields.
Cellnet says that in the future the network will extend west to Darlington, and the Al will also be covered north to Edinburgh.
Cellnet now has 23,500 subscribers and the network covers around 65 per cent of the UK's population.