ISSAQUAH, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp.’s InfoStream technology allows mobile professionals to send faxes and e-mail, and access office databases and the Internet, from a laptop computer using a digital personal communications phone.
The company launched its VoiceStream service, which offers the InfoStream technology, in Oklahoma City on Thursday.
“More and more people are away from the office as they conduct business, but they still must stay ahead of competition and maintain communication with their customers and colleagues,” said Robert Dotson, vice president of marketing for VoiceStream Wireless. “Past wireless data services had to convert information from an analog wave signal to the digital ones and zeros of computer language when transmitting to computers.”
Mobile customers use InfoStream by connecting a VoiceStream PCS phone to a data card in a laptop or handheld computer.
InfoStream services are available in VoiceStream’s personal communications services market in Hawaii, as well as Utah, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington and Oklahoma City. The company said it plans to extend service to Iowa this year and Colorado in early 1997.
