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- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 11:25:06 CST
- From: Andrew C. Green <acg@hermes.dlogics.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Cellular Advice Sought
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- Jerry Leichter <leichter@lrw.com> writes:
-
- > Question: She can't be the only one who wants to keep her beeper along
- > with her cellphone. Does anyone make a combined beeper/cellphone?
-
- Uh, Yes and No. This is a perfect description of the Ameritech
- Personal Communication Services phone that I'm involved in long-term
- testing of. You may recall that a few months back, I posted a message
- saying that I had been signed up by Ameritech here in the Chicago area
- to be a tester of the product (along with several hundred other
- people) when the prototypes were rolled out. I've now had the phone
- for about six weeks.
-
- It functions exactly as you described; incoming calls are routed to a
- VoiceMail box which beeps you on the phone with either your own number
- (if the caller left a voice message) or with another number entered by
- the caller in your mailbox. You then return the call as you see fit.
- Unfortunately this is only a test, with severely limited service areas
- for using the phone for outgoing calls, although the incoming call
- paging goes through Ameritech's standard pager system and will reach
- you anywhere. They tell me that similar systems are being tested by
- other Bell companies around the country, so you might want to see if
- anything similar is available in San Francisco.
-
- I'm working on a report for Telecom on my experiences with this
- system.
-
- Disclaimer: I have no connection to Ameritech; speaking for myself only.
-
-
- Andrew C. Green
- Datalogics, Inc. Internet: acg@dlogics.com
- 441 W. Huron UUCP: ..!uunet!dlogics!acg
- Chicago, IL 60610 FAX: (312) 266-4473
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