Give your secretary and yourself a break with Powerband Digital Service; technology eases administrative burdens on secretaries.IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 22, 1997--What's the best gift you can buy this Secretaries Day? Instead of flowers that wilt before the end of the week, how about a new practical tool that can free up your secretary to handle other important tasks? AirTouch Cellular's Powerband Digital Service gives mobile professionals a personal digital secretary -- a tool that can effectively handle many of the major responsibilities of secretaries. Now tasks, including taking messages, tracking people down, forwarding calls, arranging conference calls, looking up phone numbers and even screening calls, can be done quickly and efficiently, giving secretaries time to handle more critical functions. "With the trend toward leaner staffs, we all need to find new ways of doing business and serving customers in fewer overall staff hours," said Nancy Hobbs, executive vice president and general manager of AirTouch Cellular-Southern California. "For businesspeople who commute TO COMMUTE. To substitute one punishment in the place of another. For example, if a man be sentenced to be hung, the executive may, in some states, commute his punishment to that of imprisonment. or spend any part of their day on the road or even in meetings away from their desks, Powerband Digital Service offers a potent administrative alternative -- a personal digital assistant." AirTouch's Powerband users benefit immediately from voicemail, paging, Caller ID A telephone company service that sends the caller's telephone number between the first and second ring of the call. If the calling number is not blocked, the calling number is displayed on the handset or base station of the called party. , call waiting, call forwarding call forwarding n. A telephone service that enables a customer to have an incoming call automatically rerouted to another extension. Noun 1. and conference calling. Caller ID allows the user to see who is calling and to decide whether to accept the call or let it go to voicemail. For those who accept the calls, the first minute inbound is free. Managers who need to have highly confidential conversations can now make those calls from the road, since the digital technology offers the highest level of privacy available on a wireless call. Powerband users can make and receive calls while traveling throughout the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and Canada, unlike users of other carriers' technologies. "The future of 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. is here today for secretaries and other individuals," said Hobbs. "By using a tool that streamlines their telecommunications functions, managers can give their secretaries more substantial, value-added duties, which can improve the performance of the entire organization." AirTouch Communications is a global wireless communications company, with interests in cellular, paging, and personal communications services See PCS. in the United States, Belgium, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, South Korea, Spain, and Sweden, as well as interests in the Globalstar satellite system. The company, based in 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 , serves over 8 million proportionate customers worldwide. AirTouch's cellular division serves more than 2.9 million customers in the United States, including the nation's largest cellular market in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . CONTACT: Melissa May, 714/222-8781 Pager 1. (hardware, communications) pager - (Or "beeper", "bleeper" (UK?)) A small wireless receiver that, when triggered (generally via phone), will beep or vibrate (un)pleasantly. : 714/509-5601 or Bozell/SMS Dan Pittman, 714/708-9147 |
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