Cellular One to Offer Wireless AMBER Alerts.OKLAHOMA CITY Oklahoma City (1990 pop. 444,719), state capital, and seat of Oklahoma co., central Okla., on the North Canadian River; inc. 1890. The state's largest city, it is an important livestock market, a wholesale, distribution, industrial, and financial center, and a farm -- Cellular One from Dobson Cellular Systems today said it is joining a coalition of wireless carriers around the country to allow its subscribers to receive wireless AMBER Alerts on their cellular telephones. Beginning today, Cellular One customers can sign up for the service by clicking on the wireless AMBER Alert link on the company's website -- www.celloneusa.com. A national announcement about the program was made this morning in Washington, D.C. The Wireless AMBER Alert program allows wireless customers to receive real-time AMBER Alerts via their wireless devices in up to five different local counties. More than 60% of Americans own wireless phones, and seldom go anywhere without them, thus, the wireless AMBER Alert initiative will significantly increase the reach of the AMBER Alerts program by notifying people of the emergency situation wherever they are and wherever they occur. "The ability to receive AMBER Alerts wirelessly enables a larger group of citizens to respond in a timely manner. This will increase the chances of recovering abducted abducted Distal angulation of an extremity away from the midline of the body in a transverse plane and away from a sagittal plane passing through the proximal aspect of the foot or part, or away from some other specified reference point children, and Cellular One is proud to partner with the Wireless Foundation and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children on this project," said Craig Davis, public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most manager for Cellular One. Once on the national site, users enter their mobile phone number and are then directed to choose up to five different zip codes from which to receive AMBER Alerts. Each zip code works for an entire county. In the fall of 2001, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children launched a campaign to encourage the development of AMBER (America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response) Alert plans across the country. To date AMBER Alert plans have resulted in more than 200 nationwide recoveries. Cellular One is a licensed trade name of Dobson Cellular Systems and American Cellular Corporation, subsidiaries of Oklahoma City based Dobson Communications Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :DCEL DCEL Doubly-Connected Edge List DCEL Direct Current Electro-Luminescent ). Dobson is a leading telecommunications provider operating in 16 states. The company is known for its quality network and innovative telecommunications products. For more information about Cellular One's products and services, visit: www.celloneusa.com. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC NCMEC National Center for Missing & Exploited Children NCMEC National Concrete and Masonry Engineering Conference ) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization Nonprofit Organization An association that is given tax-free status. Donations to a non-profit organization are often tax deductible as well. Notes: Examples of non-profit organizations are charities, hospitals and schools. that works in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (or OJJDP) is an office of the United States Department of Justice and a component of the Office of Justice Programs. . Since its establishment in 1984, NCMEC has assisted law enforcement with more than 106,000 missing child cases, resulting in the recovery of more than 92,000 children. For more information about NCMEC, call its toll free, 24-hour hotline at 1-800-THE-LOST or visit www.misskids.com. The Wireless Foundation is a non-profit organization that was formed by member companies of CTIA (1) See CompTIA. (2) (Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association, Washington, DC, www.ctia.org, www.wow-com.com) A membership organization founded in 1984 that is involved with regulatory and public affairs issues in the wireless industry. -- The Wireless Association(TM) in 1991. The Foundation oversees a number of programs designed to put wireless technology to work addressing the challenges of society. www.wirelessfoundation.org. |
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