AirTouch Celebrates Opening of One-Stop-Shopping Retail Stores.SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 13, 1999-- This weekend marks the grand opening of the first four AirTouch one-stop-shopping wireless retail stores in the Seattle area. These stores will give consumers access to complete 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. solutions by offering both cellular and paging equipment and services in a single location. Located in downtown Seattle Downtown is the central business district of Seattle, Washington. It is fairly compact compared to other city centers on the West Coast because of its geographical situation: hemmed in on the north and east by hills, on the west by Elliott Bay, and on the south by reclaimed land at 1629 Sixth Avenue; Redmond at 16803 Redmond Way; Bellevue at 221 Bellevue Way N.E., and Lynnwood at 4026 196th Street S.W., Suite 107, the four stores are the first of several proposed AirTouch-owned stores in Washington opening during the next 12 months. Grand opening festivities fes·tiv·i·ty n. pl. fes·tiv·i·ties 1. A joyous feast, holiday, or celebration; a festival. 2. The pleasure, joy, and gaiety of a festival or celebration. 3. will include a live remote broadcast by KJR KJR Kiski Junction Railroad at the downtown Seattle store from noon to 2 p.m. on May 14, and by KBSG at the Bellevue store from 1 to 4 p.m. on May 15. To celebrate the store openings, AirTouch is offering a special in-store promotion of $50 off any digital handset. Food, prizes, banners, balloons, an appearance by Phoneman and drawings for one of two Digital StarTAC handsets also are planned throughout the weekend. "These stores are a new concept for us and will compliment the many choices that AirTouch offers today," said Joe Dodson, vice president and general manager-Northwest Area for AirTouch Cellular. "AirTouch Cellular has not had company-operated stores in Washington. With the opening of these stores, we are offering cellular equipment and services to the customer who wants to deal directly with AirTouch's trained wireless sales employees." All of the stores are open 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. The new stores emphasize sales of cellular and paging equipment and services. Customers seeking help with customer service and repair will be connected to a service representative via telephone for assistance. AirTouch serves 8 million U.S. cellular U.S. Cellular (NYSE: USM) is a super-regional cellular telephone provider, serving 5.8 million customers in 189 markets in 26 U.S. states. The company was created in 1983 as a subsidiary of Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. Since April 2000, John E. customers and operates in 22 of the top 30 U.S. markets, including Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , San Diego, Atlanta, Detroit, Cleveland, San Jose, Sacramento, Cincinnati, Kansas City, Seattle, Portland, Denver, Phoenix, and Minneapolis. AirTouch Communications is the largest wireless company in the world based on the more than 44 million customers served by its global ventures. AirTouch has more than 19 million customers based on its ownership share in cellular, paging, and personal communications services See PCS. in the United States and 12 other nations. It also has an interest in the Globalstar satellite system. |
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