LEXINGTON, Mass.-Wildfire Communications Inc., which introduced the Wildfire Electronic Assistant product one year ago, signed on AT&T Wireless Services and Pacific Bell Mobile Services to develop Wildfire as a network-based system.
Valued at $3 million each, the contracts with AT&T and Pac Bell are non-exclusive agreements whereby those companies are partners in developing the Network Wildfire System and will be first to offer Wildfire as an enhanced service to their customers.
System integrity, robust quality and systems integration are elements of reconfiguring Wildfire as a network-based system, said Nick d’Arbeloff, Wildfire vice president and co-founder. Additionally, the companies are conducting market research to determine if any features need to be added, if users desire to choose features a la carte as opposed to a package deal and other customer preferences.
The resulting Network Wildfire product is scheduled for trials beginning next year and is expected to be commercially available in 1997.
The Wildfire Electronic Assistant uses speech recognition, computer and telephony technology and can reach users at their office, home, cellular or any other phone number, anywhere at anytime. Wildfire receives, stores and replays voice-mail messages, whispers to a user when another call has come in-offering a choice to accept the call or send it to voice mail, schedules follow-up calls and reminders, and enables users to voice dial outgoing calls.
