Sprint and eBay Deliver Online Trading to the Sprint PCS Wireless Web
Sprint PCS Wireless Web Customers Nationwide Are Able to Bid on More Than 4 Million Items on eBay From Their Wireless Phones
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KANSAS CITY, and SAN JOSE, Calif., May 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Sprint PCS (NYSE: PCS), the nation's largest 100 percent digital, 100 percent PCS nationwide wireless network, and eBay(R) (Nasdaq: EBAY) ( www.ebay.com ), the world's leading person-to-person online trading community, today announced an alliance that delivers eBay's online trading services to the Sprint PCS Wireless Web. Sprint PCS customers nationwide have clear access to eBay services to search for items, bid on merchandise and confirm trades, directly from their Internet-ready Sprint PCS Phones. The Sprint PCS Wireless Web enables customers to complete trading transactions while on the go, increasing the chances of being the highest bidder by eliminating the need to be tethered to a PC to place the winning bid. Equipped with up-to-date bidding information from eBay, trading is possible from virtually anytime, anywhere on the Sprint PCS nationwide wireless network.
The alliance marks the debut of the "eBay Anywhere" program, a comprehensive new mobile technology strategy that will make eBay accessible from any Internet-enabled mobile device. Sprint PCS pioneered today's wireless data services with the nationwide launch of the Sprint PCS Wireless Web in September 1999. Customers nationwide can access information from 19 content partners directly via the Sprint PCS Wireless Web on more than 15 Internet-ready Sprint PCS Phones. eBay's online trading services will be available under the "Shopping" category of the Sprint PCS Wireless Web.
"We're excited to add eBay's online trading services to our expanding list of top quality content on the Sprint PCS Wireless Web," said Andrew Sukawaty, Sprint PCS president. "By adding eBay to the Sprint PCS Wireless Web, we continue to deliver a full breadth of world-class content and services to our customers, making Sprint PCS the most dynamic wireless platform in the nation."
"Our aim is to make eBay accessible from any Internet-enabled device, be that the latest Internet-ready mobile phone or the coolest new PDA," said Brian Swette, eBay's chief operating officer. "With 'eBay Anywhere' we're letting our millions of customers choose how they would like to access eBay and as such Sprint PCS Wireless Web is a 'must have' service for us."
By using any Internet-ready Sprint PCS Phone, customers nationwide are able to participate in "My eBay" trading services on the Sprint PCS Wireless Web. eBay customers are able to browse, search, watch, bid, review and confirm bids on eBay's more than 4 million items in over 4,300 categories, directly from their wireless phones. Additionally, customers are able to access featured auctions, account information and view feedback while on the go, placing the power of interactive online trading in the palm of customers' hands.
Sprint PCS launched its Sprint PCS Wireless Web service in late September 1999, offering customers a suite of simple, user-friendly wireless data products and services. By using Internet-ready Sprint PCS Phones, customers can now shop, trade stocks online, browse select Internet-based content in real time, receive automatic personalized news features, weather, stock quotes, and e-mail updates, and connect to the Internet or corporate Intranet by connecting their laptop computer to their Sprint PCS Phone with a Wireless Web Connection Kit. The Sprint PCS Wireless Web is available virtually anytime, anywhere on the Sprint PCS 100 percent digital, 100 percent PCS nationwide wireless network.
About Sprint PCS
Sprint PCS operates the largest 100 percent digital, 100 percent PCS nationwide wireless network in the United States, already serving the majority of the nation's metropolitan areas including more than 4,000 cities and communities across the country. Sprint PCS has licensed PCS coverage of nearly 270 million people in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. For more information, visit the Sprint PCS web site at sprintpcs.com . Sprint PCS is a wholly-owned tracking group of Sprint Corporation trading on the NYSE under the symbol "PCS."
Sprint is a global communications company -- at the forefront of integrating long-distance, local and wireless communications services, and a large carrier of Internet traffic. Sprint built and operates the United States' first nationwide all-digital, fiber-optic network and is a leader in advanced data communications services. Sprint has $20 billion in annual revenues and serves more than 20 million business and residential customers.
About eBay
eBay ( www.ebay.com ), the world's personal trading community (TM), pioneered person-to-person online trading. Founded in 1995, eBay has developed an efficient and entertaining trading site on the Web that is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week eBay has more than 12 million registered users. Currently, there are more than 4 million items listed for sale. More than 500,000 items are added daily in more than 4,300 categories, including: antiques; automotive; books, movies and music; coins and stamps; collectibles; computers; dolls and figures; jewelry and gemstones; photos and electronics; pottery and glass; sports memorabilia; and toys.
SOURCE Sprint PCS
CO: Sprint PCS; eBay
ST: Missouri
IN: MLM
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