Customers can get "connected" with Total Number.APOPKA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 19, 1996--Remembering just one number is hard enough, but in our fast-paced Adj. 1. fast-paced - of communication that proceeds rapidly; "a fast-paced talker"; "fast-paced fiction" fast - acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly; "fast film"; "on the fast track in school"; "set a fast pace"; "a fast car" world of constant pages, escalating cellular bills and missed phone calls, wouldn't it be great if there were just one system that could manage every communications service with just one number? Coming this month, Sprint/United Telephone-Florida is bringing that technology to you with Total Number. This new personal-communications system links your business phone, cellular phone, pager and fax machine, through one, seven-digit number. "Total Number will be a very effective communications tool, especially for those who work at home or run a small business," said Debbie Lynn, project manager. "By providing this single-number technology, we can offer our customers more mobility, efficiency and control over their communications. The way this service works is simple. Customers will program in a "routing" schedule which tells the system where to direct the call in order of importance. The caller Caller may refer to one of the following:
For example, Mary Smith dials her accountant Jim Jones For other persons named Jim Jones, see Jim Jones (disambiguation). James Warren "Jim" Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was the American founder of the Peoples Temple, which became synonymous with group suicide after the November 18, 1978 mass murder-suicide by at 555-3456. First she will hear: "Thank you for calling Jim Jones' Total Number service. Please announce the name of the party calling." Then, "Please stay on the line while I try to locate him for you." If the first connection is unanswered, the caller will hear something like: "I'm sorry I'm Sorry may refer to the following works:
Through Total Number's call screening feature, the call will be announced to the customer, who will then have the option to accept the call, or send it to a voice mailbox A simulated mailbox in the computer that holds e-mail messages. Mailboxes are stored on disk as a file of messages, a database of messages or as an individual file for each message. The standard mailboxes are usually In, Out, Trash and Junk (Spam). to attend to a later date. The service will also download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. a fax, which can be easily transmitted through any fax machine when the customer arrives at the office or other destination. "Total Number allows our customers to have more control over their calls and their time, and provides a very simple way for them to use advanced technology to their benefit," Lynn explained. Not only does this service save customers time, it also saves money. "Many business people who are constantly traveling on the road, rely on their cellular phones as their single mode of communication," explained Lynn. "With Total Number, they can be a little more selective, sending some low priority calls to their voice mailbox, until they get to their office or destination where it would be less expensive than running up cellular minutes." Total Number will be available to all telephone users in the Orlando area, regardless of your phone company. The cost is about $20 per month. Sprint/United Telephone-Florida and Sprint/Centel-Florida, serve nearly 1.7 million telephone subscriber lines The line from the customer site to the local telephone company. See subscriber network. in 350 communities across 36 Florida counties. Encompassing three million people, stretching from the Everglades to the Panhandle panhandle, in geography, a strip of land projecting from the main body of an area and shaped like the handle of a pan, such as the panhandles of West Virginia, Texas, and Alaska. , the company's local service area includes close to 40 percent of the state's geography. Sprint/United and Sprint/Centel are part of Sprint Corp.'s local telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. division, which serves more than 6.4 million customer lines in 19 states. CONTACT: Sprint/United Telephone-Florida, Apopka Julie Lubel, 407/889-1593 Brian Craven CRAVEN. A word of obloquy, which in trials by battle, was pronounced by the vanquished; upon which judgment was rendered against him. , 407/889-6807 |
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