AT&T Credit Card Unit opens Internet Account Center.JACKSONVILLE Jacksonville. 1 City (1990 pop. 29,101), Pulaski co., central Ark., inc. 1941. The city has varied industries, including printing and publishing and the manufacture of electronic equipment, ordnance, and plastic and metal products. , Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 19, 1996--AT&T Universal Card Services The software support for PC Cards. PC Card applications talk to Card Services. See PC Card. (UCS (Universal Character Set) An ISO/IEC format for coding character sets. ISO/IEC 10646 was synchronized with Unicode; however, Unicode adds additional constraints, and compliance with 10646 does not guarantee compatibility with Unicode. See Unicode. ) said Wednesday Wednesday: see week. its customers can now use the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the to get timely, secure account information -- just as they do over the telephone. UCS' new on-line Account Center, located on the company's World Wide Web home page, allows customers to privately access their AT&T Universal Card account. It includes the up-to-date information cardmembers request most often, such as available credit, statement balance, last payment received and minimum payment due. The Account Center also allows cardmembers to review their most recent transactions, including payments, adjustments and new purchases since their last statement. "Cardmembers have a new way to get the latest information about their accounts, anytime, anywhere," said Hans Hawrysz, UCS executive vice president - electronic commerce. To access the Account Center, cardmembers need Netscape Navigator An earlier Web browser for Windows, Macintosh and X Windows from Netscape that provided secure transmission over the Internet. Soon after its introduction in 1994, Navigator, or just "Netscape," as it was commonly called, quickly became the leading browser on the Web. (tm) 1.2 or a higher version of the Internet client software. The Netscape client software encrypts all cardmember information. The Account Center also has a registration process providing each customer with a unique password. Enterprise/Access: Web Edition(tm) software from Apertus Technologies allows the UCS Home Page to immediately access cardmembers' most recent account information as if customers were talking directly to a customer service associate. UCS' home page, located at http://www.att.com/ucs, first went on-line in May 1995, for consumers to apply for the AT&T Universal Card and get basic information about the company. Since then, it has received more than 13,000 card applications and regularly responds to electronic mail from Internet users Internet user n → internauta m/f Internet user Internet n → internaute m/f throughout the world. The AT&T Universal Card is AT&T's combination bank credit card and AT&T calling card. Its program has 18 million MasterCard and Visa accounts. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: In the World Wide Web address noted in this news release, there is a double slash between http: and www.att.com/ucs. In the Internet/email addresses noted, there is an "at" symbol between mmontag and ucs.att.com and between cdiamon and ucs.att.com. These symbols may not appear properly in some systems. CONTACT: AT&T Universal Card, Jacksonville Mitch The name Mitch can mean:
904/519-9863 (home) mmontag@ucs.att.com or Claire Diamond, 904/954-7175 (office) 904/367-0627 (home) cdiamon@ucs.att.com |
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