America Online to Offer Content and Features Through AT&T Wireless Services' Internet-Ready Phones.DULLES, Va. & REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 17, 2000 Agreement Will Give AT&T Digital PocketNet Users Easy, Mobile Access to 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 Agreement Continues to Expand AOL Anywhere Strategy America Online See AOL. , Inc., the world's leading interactive services company (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : AOL), and AT&T Wireless Services (NYSE: AWE), a pioneer in wireless Internet communications, today announced they will bring popular AOL content and features to millions of AOL customers via AT&T Digital PocketNet service. With AOL members spending more than an hour online each day, this agreement between AOL and AT&T Wireless Services will help provide consumers another way to be connected, complete with AOL's hallmark ease-of-use and convenience. This announcement marks the latest in a series of initiatives by AOL, beginning with the launch of AOL Wireless this past February, that provide consumers with nationwide wireless solutions. For AOL members and AT&T Digital PocketNet subscribers, this agreement means convenient access to the information they need no matter where they are, whether on the road, on the beach, or anytime they are away from their computer. Beginning this fall, AT&T Digital PocketNet users across the country will have convenient access to a wide selection of AOL's most popular services and features, part of AOL Mobile's suite of wireless services. MovieFone's local movie listings will be available free of charge via AT&T Wireless' Internet-ready phones as part of the AT&T Digital PocketNet Basic service plan. Other popular AOL features, including AOL e-mail, news, weather, and stock quotes, as well as convenient tools from Digital City, will also be available for a small monthly fee from AT&T Wireless Services. These services provide users with up-to-the-minute information including local entertainment guides, restaurant reservations and sports team schedules. AT&T Digital PocketNet service provides unlimited wireless access to over 40 wireless Internet web sites when customers purchase one of two new wireless Internet phones (1) See IP phone and softphone. (2) (Internet Phone) The first VoIP telephone service in the U.S., introduced in early 1995 by VocalTec Communications Ltd., Fort Lee, NJ (www.vocaltec.com). Using a Windows softphone, calls could also be made to a regular phone. and sign up for any AT&T Wireless Services digital voice plan, and is the only nationwide wireless carrier offering flat-rate pricing for wireless data services. AOL e-mail and MovieFone will have premier placement through the main screen of the AT&T Digital PocketNet service. "The need for mobile e-mail access is driving the adoption of wireless devices today," said Kendra Vandermeulen, Senior Vice President of New Products and Strategy, AT&T Wireless Services. "Now millions of AOL members and others can send and receive e-mails without watching the clock. We look forward to providing them with flat-rate, all-you-can-use pricing plans, and offering mobile access to AOL's popular features and services." "This new agreement shows that AOL has truly gone wireless. AT&T Wireless has been a pioneer in the development of wireless web phones, and by working with them, we will make the magic of online services available to millions more consumers, and make AOL as popular in the wireless world as it is in the wire-line world," said Dennis Patrick, President of AOL Wireless. "We remain focused on bringing AOL's hallmark ease-of-use to wireless interconnectivity, and through AT&T Digital PocketNet service we can provide wireless users nationwide with a greater range of services for their Internet-enabled phones." For access to e-mail, subscribers can pay a flat-rate of just $6.99 per month for unlimited access to compatible e-mail accounts e-mail account n → cuenta de correo or $14.99 for e-mail, calendars, to-do lists and more. AT&T Digital PocketNet service lets customers send and receive full text e-mails of any length using their AT&T Wireless Internet-ready phone. The AOL Wireless initiative is a key part of America Online's "AOL Anywhere"(sm) strategy to make its industry-leading brands and features available to online consumers anywhere, anytime through a range of wireless devices. Since February 2000, AOL has announced agreements to make their suite of wireless services available on internet-ready phones, pagers and hand-held devices. A May 2000 Forrester Research Forrester Research is an independent technology and market research company that provides its clients with advice about technology's impact on business and consumers. Corporate facts
About AT&T Wireless Services 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. About America Online 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: America Online, with more than 23 million members, and CompuServe, with more than 2.7 million members, the company's two worldwide Internet services; 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; AOL Moviefone, the nation's #1 movie listing guide and ticketing service; and Spinner.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. 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. |
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