AirTouch Offers Pay-As-You Go Voice Mail to Utah Customers; Salt Lake City and Provo are First to Receive New Service.SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 8, 1998--AirTouch customers in Provo and Salt Lake City who don't currently subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; regular voice mail service now can enjoy the convenience and flexibility of receiving messages without any monthly fees. The new Message Delivery service, being launched for the first time in Salt Lake City and Provo, is automatically available to AirTouch customers in Utah. Message Delivery service provides a pay-as-you-go alternative to voice mail by charging customers only for messages they choose to hear. Instead of a monthly charge, Message Delivery charges customers a flat fee of 50 cents plus airtime for listening to all messages delivered. The easy-to-use system works on both analog and digital phones and requires no set up by the customer. When callers leave voice mail, the Message Delivery service calls the AirTouch customer to tell them that messages are waiting and plays a recording of the callers' names. Customers then have the option to listen to any or all of the messages for a 50 cent fee or erase all of the messages and pay nothing. "Message Delivery puts the power of choice in our customers' hands," said John Griffith John Griffith may refer to:
If for some reason customers don't want to take advantage of the Message Delivery service, they can call AirTouch Customer Service and have the service removed. AirTouch Cellular, based in 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 , is the largest wireless company 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 company serves more than 7 million proportionate 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 15 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 Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , Atlanta, Detroit, Cleveland, San Jose, Sacramento, Cincinnati, Kansas City, Seattle, Portland, Denver, Phoenix and Minneapolis.
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