ACN Selects Positive Communications to Manage Its Nationwide Wireless Messaging Business.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers PLEASANTON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 16, 2001 ACN ACN Accenture (stock symbol) ACN Accenture ACN Australian Company Number ACN Automatic Collision Notification (US DOT) ACN Acetonitrile ACN Anglican Communion Network (www.acninc.com), one of the fastest growing companies in the U.S., offering long distance, Internet and utility services directly to consumers worldwide, has teamed with Positive Communications, Inc. (www.positive.com), a provider of consumer paging/wireless messaging service, to provide messaging products and services to ACN representatives in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . The agreement calls for ACN's 80,000 sales representatives to market an array of one and two-way wireless messaging products using a customized version of Positive's proprietary e-commerce application. The products sold via the ACN Paging online store are activated on Positive's unique nationwide virtual "SuperNetwork," an aggregate of several major wireless messaging networks. All products are shipped ready-to-use directly to ACN's customers throughout the country. Positive's extensive network access insures that ACN customers receive the best wireless service package available no matter where they live in the U.S. In addition, Positive provides product fulfillment and ongoing customer care services for subscribers. "We're very pleased to have selected Positive as our wireless messaging partner," said Steve Meyer Steve Meyer (21 March 1984 - ) is a South African professional rugby union player currently playing for French outfit USA Perpignan in the position flyhalf. Meyer attended high school at Kearsney College, a well-known South African sports boarding school in KwaZulu-Natal, from 1998 , director of carrier relations at ACN. "We're impressed with their extensive support capabilities and a record for providing excellent customer care to their large base of wireless messaging subscribers." "That experience," adds Meyer, "coupled with our track record of success in network marketing, enables ACN Wireless Messaging to be a leader in the industry." As the nation's largest independent provider of wireless messaging services, Positive has served over two million customers through major retail chains since the company was founded to serve the consumer market for wireless messaging products in 1992. "Each of us saw an opportunity to benefit from our core competencies A core competency is something that a firm can do well and that meets the following three conditions specified by Hamel and Prahalad (1990):
ACN is an established leader in the rapid expansion of the telecommunications industry and one of the fastest growing companies in America. About ACN As a leader in the rapid expansion of the deregulation Deregulation The reduction or elimination of government power in a particular industry, usually enacted to create more competition within the industry. Notes: Traditional areas that have been deregulated are the telephone and airline industries. , and one of the fastest growing companies in America, ACN is a privately held customer acquisition company that markets telecommunications and utility products and services around the world through its extensive network of independent representatives. Founded in 1992, ACN is headquartered in Farmington Hills Far·ming·ton Hills A city of southeast Michigan, an industrial suburb of Detroit. Population: 81,400. , Mich., and has offices in Amsterdam, Canada, Frankfurt, Washington D.C., and Charlotte, N.C. About Positive Communications Positive Communications (http://www.positive.com) and (http://www.TalkPositive.com) is a leading provider of wireless messaging services through major retail outlets retail outlet n → punto de venta retail outlet n → point m de vente retail outlet retail n → . The company's relationship with more than 70 carriers across the U.S. allows it to offer wireless messaging coverage to about 97 percent of the U.S. population. Positive distributes a full line of Motorola pagers and messaging devices through such major retail operators as Circuit City, Fred Meyer and Staples staples U-shaped stainless steel or vitallium units with sharp points used for surgical fixation. epiphyseal staples used to staple epiphysis to metaphysis; have metal bracing at the corners. . Positive currently provides wireless messaging services to nearly 250,000 subscribers nationwide. The company maintains a 160-seat call center and a sophisticated, proprietary Subscriber Management System to manage its subscription base. Positive also offers contract customer care services to companies operating similar business models in the electronic communications and Web-based industries. Positive operates TalkPositive.com, a wireless communications wireless communications System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data. e-commerce portal, with the goal of giving mobile professionals the means for making the best choices about wireless products and services. Positive Communications and TalkPositive.com are based in Pleasanton, California Pleasanton, nicknamed "P-town"<ref name="">Ptown (Pleasanton) Bike Advocates Meeting, East Bay Bicycle Coalition website, August 14, 2007, retrieved August 17, 2007, is a city in Alameda County, California and was incorporated in 1894. and employ 200 people. Major venture capital partners fund the company. |
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