SAN MATEO, Calif.-RadioMail Corp. said it is taking new initiatives to extend and enhance its two-way gateway messaging service for both cellular carriers and its own subscribers.
The San Mateo, Calif.-based company announced a new suite of Message Center services to enable cellular carriers to offer their customers messaging, information and communications management services including Internet-compatible e-mail, faxing and pager notification of new messages.
RadioMail said services can be contracted by carriers on a turnkey basis and added to their current cellular and paging operations. The company said it will provide the carriers with full maintenance and operation of the control center, account activation and provisioning, customer support and connectivity with other carriers.
“As competition between cellular, paging and (personal communications services) carriers intensifies, cellular carriers will need to integrate multiple value-added services to stay ahead,” said Bruce Walter, RadioMail’s president and chief executive officer.
The company also announced RadioMail Remote Control service for cellular end-users to better manage wireless communications costs.
The service package includes dial-up access, cellular access and message management. It provides users with a personal RadioMailBox and a mobile Internet address that can be linked to their pager or through their cellular phone or wireless modem to their portable computer, the company said.
RadioMail said its over-the-air transfer protocol minimizes connection time and ensures high throughput over cellular networks. The new service will be integrated in the first quarter of 1996 into RadioMail’s gateway service that runs over the packet data networks of Ram Mobile Data L.P. and Motorola Inc.’s Ardis network, as well as cellular digital packet data networks, the company said.
RadioMail said it will offer Remote Control as a value added service for cellular users for as little as $10 per month-in addition to RadioMail’s basic service cost of $39 per month-with connect-time charges of 20 cents per minute.
