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FULL TEXT-BCE Mobile offers wireless data
(Full text of press release from Canada NewsWire)
Bell Mobility Offers Customers Wireless Access to
E-mail, Internet and E-commerce
Live and Unplugged:
Bell Mobility Launches Wireless Digital Data Applications
TORONTO, May 13 /CNW/ - In a series of Canadian and worldwide firsts, Bell
Mobility today announced a series of initiatives that will provide its
customers with instant access to wireless Internet, e-mail and e-commerce
applications from their handsets.
Bell Mobility unveiled two new services, launched two market trials and
announced plans to sell the latest - and smallest - Smartphones, all of which
will provide the company's digital customers with powerful new productivity
tools to help them manage their work ... and their play ... better.
The services are:
- Digital DATA to Go(TM) - Canada's first full suite of innovative
wireless data services that provides customers with a portfolio of
personal productivity applications including wireless on-line banking,
real-time e-mail and web browsing.
The service -- which works across a variety of computing devices
including Bell Mobility's PCS phones, most laptops, and handheld and
palm-sized computing devices --helps business people on the go by
providing continuous access to corporate resources such as e-mail,
schedules and files through encoded data links to corporate Intranets
and the Internet; and
- PCS Mobile Browser(TM) - The first PCS browser to be launched
commercially in North America, this will give subscribers instant
access to real-time information through the Internet on their PCS
handset. Customers can send and receive e-mail and gain access to a
wide range of lifestyle information such as real-time stock
quotations, news headlines and web-411 directory services.
Both Digital DATA to Go and Mobile Browser are available to all Bell
Mobility PCS subscribers with a data-capable phone such as the QUALCOMM
QCP-2700. There are no monthly access fees or contracts. Customers pay only 15
cents a minute for airtime, billed by the second.
The market trials also highlight digital data applications:
- Veev - Developed in partnership with the Bank of Montreal and 724
Solutions, this service provides interactive access for customers to
their Bank of Montreal, mbanx and Nesbitt Burns financial portfolios.
The trial starts May 14.
- Revolv - Bell Mobility is the first wireless carrier in the world to
trial the Revolv service, a wireless productivity application that
brings access to e-mail, scheduling and other personal information
management tools to any wireless device. The Revolv service is the
product of Wireless Knowledge, a joint venture of Microsoft and
QUALCOMM.
As for the phones,
- NeoPoint -- Bell Mobility said it has reached an agreement with
NeoPoint Inc. to begin distributing the NeoPoint, the world's smallest
CDMA Smartphone, starting in Q3, 1999.
- pdQ -- QUALCOMM's pdQ Smartphone, which combines state-of-the-art CDMA
technology with the most popular palm-sized computing platform from
Palm Computing, is also slated to begin shipping later this year.
Today we deliver on George Gilder's prophecy that the most common PC of the
next decade will be the digital cellular phone,'' said Randy Reynolds,
President and CEO of Bell Mobility. We are dedicated to delivering to our
customers the power and interactivity of the Internet from a range of wireless
devices. Together with our partners, we have made the convergence of wireless
communications and the Internet a reality.''
Charlotte Burke, Vice-President of Services Development & E-Commerce, said
Bell Mobility has listened to its customers in designing these services: They
told us they want convenience, ease of use, reliability, affordability and,
most important, they want the applications to be relevant to their business and
personal needs.
Today, we're delivering on all counts. With Digital DATA to Go, for
instance, what could be easier to use than our CDMA phones which comes with an
IP address and built-in modem. All you need is a cable to connect from the
phone to your laptop or palmtop computer.''
Ms. Burke said today's announcements reaffirm Bell Mobility's leadership as
an innovator not just of new services but also of strategic partnerships. The
companies we're working with are leaders in their own right. We're putting it
all together with them to unleash the extraordinary potential of wireless,
wireline and the web to offer customers the widest array of wireless data
solutions in this country. This launch is an important milestone in fulfilling
our strategy to deliver leading-edge solutions to a wide customer base.''
The Bell Mobility family of companies provides a complete range of wireless
communications solutions - cellular, paging, data, satellite, PCS and airline
passenger communications services -to over 2 million Canadian customers. Bell
Mobility Radio provides two-way voice and wireless data services to public
safety and emergency services agencies. Bell Mobility companies are
subsidiaries of BCE Mobile Communications Inc., a publicly-traded company (TSE,
ME, NYSE; stock symbol BCX) which is 65% owned by Bell Canada.
For more information on Bell Mobility, visit our website at
bellmobility.ca.
/For further information: Bell Mobility: Leanne Bucaro (905) 282-4054,
lbucaro(at)mobility.com; GPC Communications: Caroline Verboon, (416) 598-0055
x276, cverboon(at)gpc.ca/ |
