America Online Enhances Premium Voice Services, Making Them More Convenient Than Ever.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers DULLES, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 9, 2003 Continuing AOL's Fight Against Spam, Subscribers Can Reduce "Phone Spam See mobile phone spam. " from Telemarketers, and Screen or Stop Calls from Unknown or Unwanted Callers 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. Listens to Members: AOL(R) Call Alert and AOL(R) Voicemail Users Will Be Able To Take Incoming Calls, or Redirect re·di·rect tr.v. re·di·rect·ed, re·di·rect·ing, re·di·rects To change the direction or course of. n. A redirect examination. re Callers to a Wireless Phone or Second Line Building on the convenience of America Online's popular suite of voice-related premium services, AOL is making several important enhancements to the AOL(R) Call Alert and AOL(R) Voicemail services that will make it even easier for members to manage incoming phone calls and important messages, and take greater control over their online and telephone privacy. Beginning this week, AOL Call Alert and AOL Voicemail subscribers will be able to take advantage of a new "telemarketing telemarketing, the practice of selling goods or services to customers by means of the telephone or of surveying consumer preferences in telephone conversations. call reducer" feature that helps subscribers cut down on annoying telemarketing "phone spam" dialed by a computer. By selecting the "I Don't Know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. You" response, AOL Call Alert sends a special tone that will cause some telemarketing computers to think that the number dialed has been disconnected, making the computer drop the call and delete To remove an item of data from a file or to remove a file from the disk. See file wipe, trash and undelete. 1. (operating system) delete - (Or "erase") To make a file inaccessible. the number from its call list. If the caller is a person and not a computer, they will still hear the "I Don't Know You" message after the tone. In addition, later this summer, AOL Call Alert subscribers with a single phone line in the home will have the added option to answer calls while on the AOL service. When receiving an incoming call while on AOL, dial-up members using AOL Call Alert will have the ability to "answer the call" seamlessly while online. Members also will have the option to redirect the call to a wireless phone or another line in the home where they can take the call. And because the AOL Call Alert service is included with an AOL Voicemail subscription, these options will be available for AOL Voicemail users as well. To help AOL members have more control over their privacy, new privacy management features in both AOL Call Alert and AOL Voicemail now allow members connecting to AOL at any speed to screen or stop incoming calls with "private" or "unknown" numbers. Members can set preferences to accept all anonymous callers, block all anonymous callers or force anonymous callers to identify themselves before completing the call. They can also block specific callers from disturbing their online session. Jeremy Verba, General Manager of Voice Services, America Online See AOL. , said: "We're very pleased to continue meeting the needs of our members with these terrific new enhancements to our Voice services that put more power and flexibility into the hands of our subscribers. Not only will users soon be able to answer the calls they want to take, but they now have the power to start knocking out annoying phone spam, and take more control over their telephone privacy. With these enhancements, as well as other improvements we'll be rolling out in the near future, we're adding even more value to America Online's great suite of Voice services." The AOL Call Alert and AOL Voicemail premium services are available for AOL members using AOL 7.0 and above and will also be available in the new AOL 9.0(r) Optimized later this summer. AOL Call Alert costs $3.95 plus taxes per month, in addition to the current monthly AOL membership fee. Members' local phone companies may also charge a one-time setup fee and a monthly call forwarding call forwarding n. A telephone service that enables a customer to have an incoming call automatically rerouted to another extension. Noun 1. fee. For more information or to order the service, visit AOL Keyword: Call Alert. The AOL Voicemail service, which includes AOL Call Alert, is available to AOL members for $5.95 a month. Additionally, members' local phone companies may charge a small fee, which covers the price of call forwarding that the service uses and may appear on their phone bill or as an itemized charge on their AOL bill, depending on their area. Members' phone companies may also charge a one-time setup fee. To sign up or to learn more, AOL members can visit AOL Keyword: AOL Voicemail. About America Online America Online, Inc. is 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 AOL Time Warner Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :AOL). 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. , America Online is the world's leader in interactive services, Web brands, Internet technologies and e-commerce services. |
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