Active Voice announces OEM agreement with Grupo Delta of Mexico.SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 3, 1996--Active Voice Corp. (Nasdaq: ACVC ACVC Ada Compiler Validation Capability ACVC Atlantic Coast Veterinary Conference ACVC Arms Control Verification Committee ACVC Army Commercial Vehicle Code ACVC Air-Cooled Vault Concept ), a world leader in PC-based voice processing The computerized handling of voice, which includes voice store and forward, voice response, voice recognition and text to speech technologies. systems and computer-telephone integration (CTI (Computer Telephone Integration) Combining data with voice systems in order to enhance telephone services. For example, automatic number identification (ANI) allows a caller's records to be retrieved from the database while the call is routed to the appropriate party. ), today announced the signing of an original equipment manufacturer's agreement (OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and ) with Grupo Delta of Mexico. Grupo Delta will market Active Voice's entire line of voice processing systems, including the TeLANophy unified messaging Having access to e-mail, voice mail and faxes via a common computer application or by telephone. For example, unified messaging may send faxes and digitized voice mail to a mail server that turns them into e-mail attachments. and call management package for local area networks, under their own label. The fast growing Grupo Delta supplies customer premise voice mail throughout Mexico and has an extensive distribution network for business communications products. "The Mexican market for business communications products is growing rapidly," said Active Voice International General Manager James Freihoff. "We are extremely pleased to be working with Grupo Delta to bring innovative voice products to Mexico." Grupo Delta was founded in 1970 and quickly became a major manufacturer and distributor of consumer electronics in Mexico. In 1975 they introduced the first Radio Shack See RadioShack. stores and Tandy personal computers to the Mexican market. Expanding into the business electronics area, they started assembling Delta brand computers and printers in 1986. They will market Active Voice products through Delta Telecom, which also distributes telephone equipment and PBXs from companies such as Panasonic, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , AT&T, Alcatel, Fujitsu and Samsung. Active Voice has more than 30,000 installations in virtually every type of business in 54 nations worldwide. The Seattle-based corporation has offices in the United Kingdom, Canada, the Netherlands, China and Australia. Active Voice products are sold through a global network of independent telecommunications dealers and computer resellers. CONTACT: Active Voice Corp., Seattle Marketing/PR: Diane M. Williams, 206/441-4700, ext. 132 e-mail: dwilliams@avoice.com. Financial: Jose David, 206/441-4700, ext. 105 e-mail: jdavid@avoice.com. Investor: Carolyn Paola, 206-441-4700, ext. 197 e-mail: ir@avoice.com NOTE TO EDITORS: In the Internet/e-mail addresses noted in this news release, there is an "at" symbol between: -- dwilliams AND avoice.com -- jdavid AND avoice.com -- ir AND avoice.com These symbols may not appear properly (or at all) in some systems. |
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