America Online Delivers 'AOL Mobile' Services to AT&T Wireless Internet-Ready Phones.Business Editors DULLES, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 5, 2000 Latest Offering Underscores 'AOL Anywhere'(SM) Strategy By Bringing Popular AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. Features and Content to Mobile AOL Members Via AT&T's Digital PocketNet(SM) Service America Online See AOL. , Inc., the world's leading interactive services company (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : AOL), today announced that more than 23 million AOL members and tens of millions of users of AOL's Web-based brands can more easily and conveniently get their favorite AOL content and features via 'AOL Mobile' services on AT&T's Digital PocketNet(SM) service. The new AOL Mobile services debut today on any of AT&T Wireless' Internet-ready phones, where AOL will have top placement in the Portals channel of the AT&T Digital PocketNet service premium offer. AT&T PocketNet service will now deliver access to popular AOL features such as e-mail, news, weather and stock quotes, as well as content from some of AOL's other consumer-friendly brands, including Digital City, MapQuest and MovieFone. Today's announcement marks the next step in the "AOL Anywhere"(SM) multi-platform strategy to extend the benefits of the Company's industry-leading brands as well as its popular features and services to members anywhere, anytime and at any speed - on emerging interactive platforms beyond the PC. With AOL members spending more than an hour online each day, AOL Mobile on AT&T Wireless Services helps provide them with another way to be connected anytime and anywhere they are in AT&T's extensive wireless data footprint using AT&T's leading-edge advanced wireless technologies. "Thanks to AT&T Wireless, a pioneer in the development of wireless Web phones, AOL has marked another major milestone in its efforts to bring its most popular features and services to mobile AOL members and the rest of the tens of millions of mobile consumers who rely on services from our world-class family of brands," said Dennis Patrick, President of AOL Wireless. "We remain focused on bringing AOL's hallmark ease-of-use to wireless interconnectivity." "E-mail has become a way of life for many, as has relying on the Internet for a huge range of information, services and e-commerce. The need for mobile access to e-mail and the Web continues to drive the adoption of wireless devices," said Tom Trinneer, Vice President, Data Product Development, AT&T Wireless Services. "We've addressed this need by allowing millions of AOL members and other mobile consumers to send and receive e-mail from their phones, without worrying about minutes of usage. With our flat-rate pricing plans and extensive nationwide footprint, we're excited to be offering mobile access to AOL's popular features and services." AOL Mobile on the AT&T Digital PocketNet service offers a suite of AOL's world-class branded content Branded Content, also known as Branded entertainment and Advertainment, is a relatively new form of advertising medium that blurs conventional distinctions between what constitutes advertising and what constitutes entertainment. and popular communications Popular Communications is a magazine with content relating to the radio hobby, including scanners, shortwave radio, CB, and amateur radio. The magazine includes articles, schedules of shortwave stations, and logs of pirate radio communications sent in by readers. features for mobile AOL members. Specifically, members can: -- Stay connected anywhere and anytime by checking their AOL e-mail right from their AT&T Wireless Internet-ready phone; -- Customize news, weather, stock portfolios and quotes, and other information they want delivered to their phone by setting personal preferences on their PC at My AOL.COM (AOL Keyword: "My AOL"); -- Get quick, on-the-go access to news, weather, sports and stock quotes; -- Find the best restaurants and clubs, or special happenings in their town or another city, with Digital City's entertainment guide; -- Get driving directions, traffic updates, or find a nearby gas station, restaurant, hotel or ATM anytime of day using MapQuest's compelling suite of location-based services; and -- Later this fall, check local movie times and locations, and even purchase tickets on the fly with AOL MovieFone. Accessing AOL's wireless content and services via an AT&T Digital PocketNet service is simple -- since the browser browser Software that allows a computer user to find and view information on the Internet. The first text-based browser for the World Wide Web became available in 1991; Web use expanded rapidly after the release in 1993 of a browser called Mosaic, which used is built into the phone, there is no special software to download to get started. From the phone's opening screen, AT&T PocketNet Premium customers just need to select "AOL" from the Portals menu to access the E-Mail, Stocks, Sports, News, Weather, Local and Directions content areas -- it's that easy. AOL members will need to sign in with their AOL screen name and password to access e-mail and their personal stock portfolio. AOL members can also personalize per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. their news, sports and weather information by registering for the My AOL.COM service at AOL Keyword: "My AOL", or on the Web at my.aol.com. There, they can select exactly the news and information they want delivered to their AT&T PocketNet Internet-ready phone by clicking on the "Edit" buttons throughout the area. Navigating AOL's wireless content and services on AT&T's Digital PocketNet service is also faster and easier with T9(R) Text Input software. Developed by Tegic Communications, a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of America Online, T9 Text Input allows users to type words using just one key press per letter. AT&T Digital PocketNet service lets customers send and receive full text e-mails An e-mail message that contains only unformatted ASCII text. Text e-mail may be the only option for wireless, handheld devices, but it was the traditional format for all e-mail before the Internet exploded in the mid-1990s. Contrast with HTML e-mail. using their AT&T Wireless Internet-ready phone. Subscribers to qualified AT&T Wireless voice plans can pay a flat-rate of just $6.99 per month for unlimited access to their AOL e-mail or $14.99 per month for unlimited access to the AOL Mobile suite of wireless services. For more information or to purchase an AT&T Wireless Internet-ready phone, consumers can visit AOL Keyword: "Mobile" or call AT&T Wireless at 1-800-IMAGINE. About America Online, Inc. Founded in 1985, America Online, Inc., based in Dulles, Virginia Dulles, Virginia is an unincorporated census-designated place located in Loudoun County, Virginia, part of the Washington Metropolitan Area. The headquarters of AOL, Orbital Sciences Corporation and ODIN technologies and the former headquarters of MCI Inc. are located in Dulles. , is the world's leader in interactive services, Web brands, Internet technologies and e-commerce services. America Online, Inc. operates: two worldwide Internet services, America Online, with more than 23 million members, and CompuServe, with more than 2.8 million members; several leading Internet brands including ICQ ("I Seek You") A conferencing program for the Internet from Mirabilis, Tel Aviv, Israel (www.icq.com). It provides interactive chat, e-mail and file transfer and can alert you when someone on your predefined list has also come online. , AOL Instant Messenger See AIM. and Digital City, Inc.; the Netscape Netcenter and AOL.COM portals; the 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. and Communicator browsers; MapQuest.com (1) (Computer Output Microfilm) Creating microfilm or microfiche from the computer. A COM machine receives print-image output from the computer either online or via tape or disk and creates a film image of each page. , the leader in providing online, voice and wireless mapping, directions and destination information solutions to businesses and consumers; AOL MovieFone, the nation's No.1 movie listing guide and ticketing service; and Spinner.com and NullSoft's Winamp, leaders in Internet music. Through its strategic alliance with Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , the company develops and offers easy-to-deploy, end-to-end e-commerce and enterprise solutions for companies operating in the Net Economy. About AT&T Wireless AT&T Wireless Services (NYSE: AWE) operates one of the largest digital wireless networks in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . With more than 12.5 million subscribers, AT&T Wireless Services is committed to being the premier provider of high-quality 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. services, whether mobile or fixed, voice or data, to businesses or consumers, in the U.S. and internationally. |
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