SAN DIEGO-The National Dispatch Center Inc. announced it is providing text messaging services for Sprint Spectrum, which operates a personal communications services network in Washington, D.C.
Operated by Sprint Telecommunications Venture affiliate American Personal Communications, Sprint Spectrum is offering NDC’s operator dispatch services in conjunction with text messaging and its all-in-one digital phones.
Subscribers can choose between two service levels; basic operator service and corporate 800 service. In each case, NDC said the caller can speak with an operator to send a text message to the PCS subscriber by name, and/or by personal identification number. Basic operator service provides subscribers with a toll-free number, while the corporate 800 service offers any size company with a toll-free 800/888 number that is answered with a custom greeting exclusive to that company, NDC said. NDC also is providing subscribers access to message retrieval and group messaging.
NDC said it will offer additional data services in early 1996. These will include services such as headline and financial news, weather, sports scores and traffic information. Messages will be about 160 characters in length and will be delivered on a pre-set time schedule determined by each customer, NDC said. Eventually, the services also will be available on demand when requested by a subscriber dialing “*info.”
