Clariti Begins Commercial Operations of New Wireless Voicemail Service in Jacksonville, Florida.Business & Technology Editors PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 28, 2000 Clariti Wireless Messaging Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Clariti Telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. International, Ltd. (Nasdaq: CLRI CLRI Central Leather Research Institute (India) ), announced today that it has begun operating its new wireless voicemail See voice mail. service in Jacksonville, Florida “Jacksonville” redirects here. For other uses, see Jacksonville (disambiguation). Jacksonville is the largest city in the state of Florida and the county seat of Duval County. . Clariti's new wireless service, called Clariti Wireless Voicemail, delivers voicemail messages wirelessly to a small portable device called the Voca(TM) Wireless Voicemail Player. Clariti began selling its new service to customers last week directly through its Jacksonville, Florida retail store. Clariti plans to initially limit sales and distribution of its Voca(TM) Player and confirm that its network and business systems are functioning properly before implementing a major marketing and sales campaign Noun 1. sales campaign - an advertising campaign intended to promote sales ad blitz, ad campaign, advertising campaign - an organized program of advertisements sales campaign n → campaña de venta in Jacksonville, and expanding its service into other cities in the U.S. and overseas. For a low monthly fee, customers of Clariti's new service not only have access to a full-featured voicemail system, but also have the added advantage of receiving their voicemail messages wirelessly while on the go. This saves time and money since users no longer have to wait to get back to their phones or spend money calling into a voicemail box to listen to messages. Clariti's customers can also have all their work, home, or cellular phone calls forwarded to a single Voca(TM) Player, relieving them from the burden of calling in to multiple voicemail boxes to retrieve messages. Clariti's new service also includes a group voicemail feature. This gives customers the ability to send one message to the Voca(TM) Players of a group of friends or colleagues at the same time. This feature should be valuable for groups of individuals with common interests, ranging from employees in corporations to students in high schools or on college campuses. In the near future, Clariti also plans to add enhanced features to its wireless voicemail service such as enabling users to send voice messages to a Voca(TM) Player via a Web interface; using text-to-speech technology to forward email messages to Voca(TM) Players; and allowing a customer to select from a variety of personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. information services See Information Systems. (news, sports, etc.) that are periodically sent wirelessly to his or her Voca(TM) Player. Clariti also is investigating partnerships with voicemail system providers to integrate its wireless service with existing voicemail services. Joe Smith, Executive Vice-President of Clariti commented, "The positive results of our field testing in Jacksonville and Boynton Beach, Florida Boynton Beach is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. The population was 60,389 at the 2000 census. As of 2006, the city had a population of 66,714 according to the University of Florida, Bureau of Economic and Business Research. gave us confidence that we were ready to begin operating our new wireless service. Wireless Voicemail is the first commercial application using our proprietary digital wireless technology called ClariCAST(TM). This is an important milestone for our company, but just the beginning because we believe there are many opportunities worldwide for our wireless technology. In addition, we feel there will be many opportunities in the future to integrate ClariCAST(TM) technology with other products and services that could benefit from a low cost wireless extension." Clariti's digital wireless technology, called ClariCAST(TM), utilizes existing spectrum of FM radio stations. This allows Clariti to set up a ClariCAST(TM) system without the expensive spectrum acquisition, tower construction, and maintenance costs required to set up and operate most wireless systems in use today. In addition, using existing spectrum of FM radio stations means Clariti can cover an entire metropolitan area with only 2 - 3 stations, deploy a system very rapidly, and expand worldwide without modifying it's technology since the FM band is the same in most countries around the world. About Clariti (www.clariti.com) Clariti Telecommunications International, Ltd. is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA. Clariti's Wireless Messaging business has developed ClariCAST(TM), a patented digital technology that sends data wirelessly using the subcarrier A secondary telecommunications channel that resides within the main channel (a carrier within a carrier). A type of multiplexing, the subcarrier is a modulated carrier signal at a lower frequency that is combined with the main carrier signal running at a higher frequency. channels of existing FM radio stations. Clariti's first application using ClariCAST(TM) technology is Clariti Wireless Voicemail. This service uses a small portable device called the Voca(TM) Wireless Voicemail Player to wirelessly receive voicemail messages. This sets the Voca(TM) Player apart from cellular phones, pagers, answering machines, and traditional voicemail systems that require the user to spend time and money calling in to retrieve their voicemail messages. Clariti Telecom Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Clariti Telecommunications International Ltd., utilizes its state-of-the-art Cisco-based network to deliver low-cost, high quality domestic and international voice communications, DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary Internet access See how to access the Internet. , and web hosting Making a Web site available on the Internet. Many ISPs host a few personal Web pages for an individual at no additional cost above the monthly service fee, but the address is subordinate to the ISP; for example, www.friendlyisp.com/pat_smith. . Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. : This press release contains certain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including statements about Clariti's launch and product roll-out plans, the potential market demand for the Voca(TM) player, predictions of the size of the potential market, Clariti's ability to expand its wireless business, and Clariti's ability to develop and implement new wireless services. Factors that could cause or contribute to such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, general economic and business conditions, changes in telecommunications regulations, changes in consumer demand for certain telecommunications products and services, market acceptance of Clariti's products and services, and various other factors beyond the control of the company. This includes such factors as described from time to time in the SEC reports filed by Clariti Telecommunications International, Ltd. Clariti, Voca, and ClariCAST are trademarks of Clariti Telecommunications International, Ltd. |
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