GREENVILLE, S.C.-PCS Development Corp. announced it has signed an agreement with Westlink Paging Inc. allowing the company to offer PCSD’s advanced two-way paging services in 88 markets within 14 Western and Midwestern states when services become commercially available in the first half of 1997.
PCSD said it is developing a seamless, nationwide digital network to deliver advanced two-way voice and data messaging services for business applications and the personal messaging market. The new relationship with Westlink gives PCSD the ability to reach more than 6.5 million subscribers in the United States, PCSD noted.
“We are extremely pleased that Westlink is joining our team of paging partners. Westlink provides us with a distribution capability in important core Western and Midwestern markets including Seattle, Portland, San Diego, Denver, Phoenix and Salt Lake City,” said Dick Nemerson, vice president of partner sales for PCSD.
PCSD is one of five companies that won paired nationwide 50 kHz/50 kHz inbound/outbound narrowband licenses. The company said it will begin beta trials of its mobile voice messaging services in Atlanta during first quarter 1996 and will conduct additional beta tests in Boston during the second quarter.
Based on Motorola Inc.’s InFLEXion high-speed, high-capacity voice and data protocol, PCSD’s voice messaging service will deliver messages in the caller’s own voice to a pocket-sized device.
