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Technology Stocks : General Magic -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bob Zacks who wrote (6852)	8/11/1999 9:21:00 AM
From: JC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10081

I am not sure aboutvoice access from cars. GMGC did though just change their pricing structure to match that of competitor webley. New members now can get 9.95$ permonth and $.15 per FLAT minute rather than leg minute. Isent and recieved this reply from Corporate Wireless. ___________________________________________________________ Mr. Carleton: My name is Victor Kress. I am a Portico Specialist here at CWG. I am going to attempt to answer your questions you have stated in your e-mail. A: Minutes are billed per leg only on the old plans. This means that if you have one of the original pricing plans you will be using "Double Session Minutes" If an existing Portico Subscriber would like to swith plans, all they need to do is call Customer Support @ (800) 774-3311 and press "4" for customer support. Tell them that you would like to swith to the new pricing and then you will have one leg billing. The old plans can still be subscribed to untill: October 31, 1999 Currently existing subscribers will not be switched over to these new plans, General Magic does not have any plans to notify their customers, however they will notify them when they call in to the customer service number. Yes, a portico Number can now receive inbound fax messages. You can also set an option to receive notification to a pager or other wireless device that has an e-mail address... 100 Free Life time minutes means that when a new customer or an old customer that has discontinued service decides to receive the Portico service again, they will receive 100 minutes in their account. If you use them all up in the first month of being on the service, they will be depleted from the account for good. If you only use let's say 10 minutes the first month then 90 min. will carry over to the next month and so on. Once 100 min. are used. you will pay fifteen cents a minute for service. I hope that i answered all of your questions and hope that you decide to try out the new improved Portico service! Please call me at CWG and ask to speak to me if you would like to re-connect your services with Portico. Hope to hear from you soon! Victor B. Kress "Wireless Voice & Data Specialist" Corporate Wireless Group (800) 675-4CWG Vkress@cwg.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------ I was once a Portico subscriber through Caroline Starr in the Fall of Last year,. I cancelled the service mainly due to it's cost, and because another service my company was trialing, Webley, turned out to have more useful features and better pricing than Portico. I have several questions about the new pricing/product. A. Are minutes still billed per leg? Meaning one leg into the system, one leg out for a total billed time for a two minute call to a friend being 4 minutes? B. Can the service now accept inbound faxes? C. Will my friends who still have the service through old pricing plans be converted (just curious if I should warn them!)? D. What exactly does 100 lifetime free minutes mean? Your answers will be easily anticipated! Yours truly, JC