PacTel won OK for San Diego cellular service.

As expected, the state Public Utilities Commission gave PacTel Mobile Access, a Costa Mesa subsidiary of the Pacific Telesis Group, permission to operate a cellular phone system in a 940-square-mile area stretching from Carlsbad to the Mexican border. Service is expected to begin this summer. In addition, the PUC authorized PacTel Mobile Services, another Pacific Telesis subsidiary, to sell cellular service and equipment in the San Francisco Bay Area when the new system opens later this month.