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Web2PCS Launches Realtime NCAA Basketball Tourney Scores.


Sports Writers/High-Tech Editors

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BW SportsWire)--March 16, 2000

Sports Fans Now Able To Receive Realtime NCAA NCAA
abbr.
National Collegiate Athletic Association
 

Basketball Scores To Mobile Devices

Web2PCS (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. , a leading mobile portal, announced today the launch of their real time NCAA Basketball service. Sports fans can now register with Web2PCS to receive realtime NCAA Basketball scores to their text enabled digital phones, pagers, and PDA's. The announcement coincides with the beginning of NCAA regional elimination play.

Web2PCS.com's sports service currently delivers next day NBA NBA
abbr.
1. National Basketball Association

2. National Boxing Association

NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (=
 Basketball, NFL Football, NHL NHL Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, see there  Hockey and Major League Baseball "MLB" and "Major Leagues" redirect here. For other uses, see MLB (disambiguation) and Major Leagues (disambiguation).
Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in North American professional baseball.
 scores to mobile devices. The latest addition to this service includes realtime NCAA basketball scores. The new service will be available just in time for "March Madness", a major NCAA basketball tournament There are six main NCAA Basketball Tournaments.
  • NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship
  • NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship
  • NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Championship
  • NCAA Women's Division II Basketball Championship
 that showcases the top 64 teams competing for the National Championship. Subscribers can receive realtime NCAA scores to their mobile device using Web2PCS.com's PCS Alerts product. Game updates can be easily set-up for delivery by each subscriber according to preference including; periodic, half time, or end of game.

Web2PCS.com also has future plans to include realtime professional sports such as; basketball, hockey, baseball and major league soccer.

About Web2PCS

Web2PCS is a leading wireless Internet portal providing free content and applications to mobile subscribers. In addition to both push- and pull-based information services PCS Alerts and WAP (1) (Wireless Access Point) See access point.

(2) (Wireless Application Protocol) A standard for providing cellular phones, pagers and other handheld devices with secure access to e-mail and text-based Web pages.
 Info Now, Web2PCS offers a wide array of value-added wireless services. These services include wireless instant messaging, wireless email, a wireless search engine and a wireless control center. In the near future Web2PCS.com will be launching new services including WAP games, WAP instant messaging, wireless transaction services, PCS Calendar Synchronization and Event Driven Content Services that can be scheduled and/or received on demand. Web2PCS.com has offices located in San Jose, CA and Toronto Canada. The service is currently available to most North American PCS, Digital Cellular and Paging subscribers, and is available on the Internet at www.web2pcs.com, and on the wireless Internet at www.wap2pcs.com.
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