BellSouth and JFAX.COM Offer Unified Internet Messaging on BellSouth Internet Portal.LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 14, 1999-- JFAX.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. (R) Provides BellSouth(R) Buzz(SM) Customers With Global Access to Voice Messages, E-Mails and Faxes in One, Centralized E-Mailbox BellSouth (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :BLS See Bureau of Labor Statistics. ) and JFAX.COM(R) Wednesday announced an agreement to offer unified Internet messaging to customers of BellSouth's Internet portal, BellSouth(R) Buzz(SM) (www.bellsouthbuzz.com). The unified messaging Having access to e-mail, voice mail and faxes via a common computer application or by telephone. For example, unified messaging may send faxes and digitized voice mail to a mail server that turns them into e-mail attachments. service brings BellSouth Buzz customers the ability to send and receive faxes and voice messages via e-mail, as well as listen to, respond to and manage faxes, voice messages and e-mail messages by phone or computer. BellSouth Buzz, a new content-rich site that offers Internet users local information about 62 Southeastern markets, will feature JFAX.COM on its "Business" channel linked from the start page. To register for a unified messaging account, customers access www.bellsouthbuzz.com, click on the "Business" channel link, and then on the "Get the Message" link in the "Buzz Around" section. The co-branded messaging capability will complement the current business solutions offerings on BellSouth Buzz, including Web-based file storage and Web-enhanced conferencing. "We're very pleased to be working with BellSouth to offer their customers JFAX.COM's award-winning unified messaging service, delivering the ultimate in messaging convenience and reliability," said Gary Hickox, president and chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. of JFAX.COM. "This agreement is another step in our commitment to work with leading companies both in the U.S. and around the world." JFAX.COM unified messaging will give BellSouth Buzz customers a telephone number anywhere on the JFAX.COM global network. Incoming faxes are compressed into graphic files and delivered directly to the customers' e-mail inbox. Voice messages are compressed into the global system for mobile communications (communications) Global System for Mobile Communications - (GSM, originally "Groupe de travail Sp?ciale pour les services Mobiles") One of the major standards for digital cellular communications, in use in over 60 countries and serving over one billion subscribers. (GSM), a digital audio format. Both faxes and voicemail messages are automatically delivered to a unified e-mailbox. In addition, customers have access to faxes, voice messages and e-mail by phone. "BellSouth comes together with leading companies throughout the industry to deliver the best Internet services for our customers," said Stan Yeatts, vice president of Internet Portal Services for BellSouth. "JFAX.COM's unified messaging solution brings our customers cutting-edge technology relevant to their daily lives." About BellSouth BellSouth is a $23 billion communications services company. It provides telecommunications, 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. , cable and digital TV, directory advertising and publishing, and Internet and data services to nearly 34 million customers in 19 countries worldwide. For more information on BellSouth, visit www.bellsouth.com, or for more information on BellSouth Buzz, visit www.bellsouthbuzz.com. About JFAX.COM JFAX.COM Inc. was founded in December 1995 on the visionary idea of a universal inbox combining a reliable, low-cost means of getting faxes and voice mail with the ability to maintain inexpensive virtual offices in multiple cities. JFAX.COM is based in 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. and has an additional office in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . For more information, visit www.jfax.com, or call 888/GET-JFAX. |
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