Cellular One Launches Free Customized Information Service; Personal News Provides Customers With Timely News, Information and Promotional Offers On Their Wireless Phone.Business Editors SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 26, 2000 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 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 , today announced Personal News. Personal News is a free, customized service designed to provide customers with timely news, information and promotional offers on their wireless phone. "We are always looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. ways to provide more value and enhanced services to our customers," said Steve Livingston, vice president of marketing for Cellular One. "Personal News is an extension of that commitment. Customers can now have personalized information and promotional offers delivered to them anywhere, anytime -- for free." 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. customers who have PCS Messaging can sign up for Personal News and receive either stock quotes, reminders or information from one of the following information sources: Fox News, weather.com from The Weather Channel(R), ESPN.com, CNBC CNBC Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (artificial intelligence) CNBC Consumer News and Business Channel CNBC Congress of National Black Churches, Inc. Business Headlines and Excite.com Technology News. Customers can also sign up to receive discounts, coupons and free products for everything from coffee to CDs delivered to their phones from Geoworks Corporation's Mobile Attitude. Customers establish the parameters for when the information is sent to their phones. In addition to the free portion of Personal News, customers can sign up for additional services for a fee. They can receive three extra information services See Information Systems. for $2.49 a month, or eight additional services for $5.99 a month. Customers can select from over 30 additional services, including midday and closing stock quotes, headline national news, political news, entertainment news, horoscopes and sports scores. Customers can sign up for Personal News through Cellular One's website at www.cellone-sf.poweredbyi3.com. Cellular One partnered with Geoworks Corporation (Alameda, Calif.) and i3 Mobile, Inc. (Stamford, Conn.) to develop Personal News. About Cellular One Cellular One is the leading digital wireless service provider in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area. Cellular One ranks highest in Overall Customer Satisfaction Among Cellular Telephone Users in the San Francisco Bay Area based on the 1999 J.D. Power and Associates Wireless Customer Satisfaction Study.(a) In addition, Cellular One ranks first in the Bay Area market in network access, call retention and voice quality, as determined in a 1999 netScan(TM) network quality survey.(b) Cellular One is a partnership of two communications companies: Vodafone AirTouch Plc, Newbury, England and AT&T Wireless Services, Redmond, 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. (a) The J.D. Power and Associates 1999 Wireless Customer Satisfaction Study was based on responses from 10,609 wireless telephone subscribers in 22 of the top U.S. markets. The San Francisco Bay Area market covers Alameda, Contra Costa Contra Costa can refer to:
(b) The netScan(TM) network quality survey is a third party, unbiased and objective evaluation of wireless network service, conducted by Decide.com (formerly Emerald Bay Systems), November 1999. |
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