Cellular One Adds Internet E-Mail Messaging to Digital PCS Service; Customers Can Now Receive E-mail Messages Directly on Their Phones; Cellular One First to Implement Advanced Messaging Capabilities for Digital PCS.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 3, 1997--Cellular One, the leading digital 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. provider in the Greater Bay Area, today announced that it has incorporated yet another advanced feature into its Digital PCS (1) (Personal Communications Services) Refers to wireless services that emerged after the U.S. government auctioned commercial licenses in 1994 and 1995. This radio spectrum in the 1. service. Digital PCS customers with the PCS Paging option can now receive short Internet e-mail messages directly on their Digital PCS phones. The messages can be up to 140 characters long, including the subject heading and the sender's name. To reach a Digital PCS customer, the e-mail should be sent via the Internet using the format: (Customer's 10 digital cellular number) @paging.cellone-sf.com . For example, if Jane Smith's cellular number is 510/555-1234 and she has PCS Paging, a message can be sent addressing it to 5105551234@paging.cellone-sf.com . "We are very excited to be able to deliver additional capabilities to our customers so they can fully maximize the benefits of our Digital PCS service," said Rich Weiss, product manager for Cellular One's Digital PCS service. "We have received great feedback from our customers regarding our PCS Paging feature and this new capability makes the service even more valuable for the person who needs to stay in touch." In addition to Internet e-mail, PCS Paging customers can also receive text messages using messaging software, such as Cellular One Mobile Message, on a PC or Macintosh computer. Numeric pages can be sent to customers by calling a national toll-free number or leaving a callback An authentication technique that calls the sender back. After connection is made, the receiving side breaks the connection and calls the sender to ensure that the logon was made from the authorized computer. Callback prevents a stolen ID and password from being used on a different machine. number in the customer's wireless voice mail. Also, beginning today all PCS Paging customers will pay one low rate for both numeric and text messaging Sending short messages to a smartphone, pager, PDA or other handheld device. Text messaging implies sending short messages generally no more than a couple of hundred characters in length. . Customers can receive both types of messaging for only $3.99 per month or a package including messaging and voice mail is available for $6.99 per month. Cellular One is also working on providing PCS Paging customers the ability to receive text messages sent from the Cellular One Web site. This will be available in the Fall. About Cellular One Cellular One is the leading digital wireless communications provider in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area “Bay Area” redirects here. For other uses, see Bay Area (disambiguation). The San Francisco Bay Area, colloquially known as the Bay Area or The Bay . It is a partnership of two communications companies Communications Company is a communications unit of the United States Marine Corps. They are part of Combat Logistics Regiment 37 , 3rd Marine Logistics Group (3MLG) and III Marine Expeditionary Force (III MEF). The unit is based out of the Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. : AirTouch Communications, 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 , and AT&T Wireless Services, Kirkland, Wash. Cellular One's Internet address There are two kinds of addresses that are widely used on the Internet. One is a person's e-mail address, and the other is the address of a Web site, which is known as a URL. Following is an explanation of Internet e-mail addresses only. For more on URLs, see URL and Internet domain name. is http://www.cellone-sf.com . CONTACT: Cellular One Erin Eggleton, 415/827-5702 or 888/691-7195 pager or Torme and Kenney Steven Freemire, 415/956-1791 |
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