i3 Mobile Powers New Wireless Internet Service from Cellular One in San Francisco
PR Newswire
'Personal News' Offers Customized News, Weather, Sports, Entertainment
STAMFORD, Conn., May 11 /PRNewswire/ -- i3 Mobile (Nasdaq: IIIM), a leading provider of innovative wireless media solutions since 1991, from personalized, localized information to e-commerce services, today announced that Cellular One of San Francisco now offers 'Personal News' Powered by i3 Mobile to its Digital PCS customers.
The 'Personal News' service is available to customers with PCS Messaging, and provides access to a wide range of personalized wireless media services. Customizable choices include news, real-time stock quotes, sports scores, weather forecasts and severe weather alerts, movie reviews, horoscopes and more.
"Working with i3 Mobile allows us to bring relevant and timely news and information to our customers," said Steve Livingston, vice president of Marketing for Cellular One. "We chose i3 Mobile because it have established relationships with world-class content providers and have developed the best solution to deliver the information."
"Cellular One of San Francisco reaches many communications-savvy individuals," said Stephen G. Maloney, i3 Mobile president and CEO. "i3 Mobile's ability to innovate and its reputation for reliability make it and Cellular One of San Francisco a natural match."
About Cellular One San Francisco
Cellular One is the leading digital wireless service provider in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area. Cellular One ranks highest in Overall Customer Satisfaction Among Cellular Telephone Users in the San Francisco Bay Area based on the 1999 J.D. Power and Associates Wireless Customer Satisfaction Study (a). In addition, Cellular One ranks first in the Bay Area market in network access, call retention and voice quality, as determined in a 1999 netScan(TM) network quality survey (b). Cellular One is a partnership of two communications companies: Vodafone AirTouch Plc, Newbury, England and AT&T Wireless Services, Redmond, Wash. Cellular One's Internet address is cellone-sf.com.
(a) The J.D. Power and Associates 1999 Wireless Customer Satisfaction
Study was based on responses from 10,609 wireless telephone
subscribers in 22 of the top U.S. markets. The San Francisco Bay Area
market covers Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Monterey, Napa, San Mateo,
San Francisco, Santa Clara, Solano and Sonoma Counties.
(b) The netScan(TM) network quality survey is a third party, unbiased and
objective evaluation of wireless network service, conducted by
Decide.com (formerly Emerald Bay Systems), November 1999.
About i3 Mobile
i3 Mobile (http://www.i3mobile.com) provides innovative wireless media solutions and m-commerce services to users of wireless communications devices, such as mobile phones, pagers and PDAs. The company's technology provides wireless users with filtered content via text messaging and microbrowsers. i3 Mobile's personalized content includes stock quotes, news, weather, traffic, personal e-mail and more.
This press release contains statements of a forward-looking nature. These statements are made under the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. You can identify these forward-looking statements by terminology such as "will," "expects," "anticipates," "future," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates" and similar expressions. The accuracy of these statements may be impacted by a number of business risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected or anticipated, including risks outlined in i3 Mobile's registration statement on Form S-1. i3 Mobile undertakes no obligation to update this forward-looking information, except as required under applicable law.
Source: i3 Mobile
Contact: Mike Miller of smartpr, 908-879-2942, mike@smartpr.net, for i3 Mobile
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