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Aliant launches innovative wireless service, devices
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| Posted by: ITNovaScotia Admin |
Wednesday, April 12, 2006 |
Aliant launches innovative wireless service, devices - offer customers a world of style, choice and convenience
- World Phone service (available using the Motorola A840 cell phone)
- New, ultra-thin Motorola RAZR cell phone
Atlantic Canada - Aliant, Atlantic Canada's leading information and communications technology provider, today launched an innovative World Phone service - available using the Motorola A840 cell phone - as well as the ultra-thin Motorola RAZR V3c cell phone.
The World Phone service provides business and residential customers seamless wireless access in over 150 countries around the world. The service area includes many countries across Europe and Asia - making it possible to stay in touch with friends, family, co-workers and business contacts. Customers can also access voicemail and text messaging services using the new cellular service.
For customers who choose to stay closer to home, the RAZR offers customers style, choice and convenience. The compact, multi-media ready cell phone enables customers to stay in touch with words, photos and even video.
"We take pride in providing our customers with the latest and most innovative wireless services and devices available," says Brian Fitzpatrick, Director, Mobility Business Transformation and Service Development, Aliant. "The World Phone service and the RAZR cell phone are two examples of our commitment to meet our customers' needs."
The World Phone service offers customers seamless cellular coverage as they travel overseas on business or pleasure. The service combines both Code-Division Multiple Access (CDMA) and Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) - standard technologies employed by wireless carriers - to ensure worry-free global roaming. CDMA is prevalent in North America and GSM is more commonly used by European and Asian wireless carriers.
Motorola A840 (World Phone) features:
- Dual mode (CDMA and GSM) coverage in over 150 countries
- MP3, digital camera and speakerphone capabilities
- International caller ID
- $249; based on a three-year cell plan contract
- Calling costs (Canada and the U.S.) are the same as a customers' current plan
- $2.49 per minute worldwide rate (GSM coverage area); including long-distance charges
RAZR features:
- Ultra-thin sculpted metal exterior
- MP3, digital camera and speakerphone capabilities
- Bluetooth wireless technology
- Picture caller ID
- $149; based on a two-year cell plan contract
In addition to providing innovative cellular services and devices, Aliant continues the tradition of providing customers with the most extensive, reliable digital network in Atlantic Canada. To date, Aliant has invested approximately $348 million to expand and enhance their digital wireless network, and related services, and today provides approximately 90 per cent of the population of Atlantic Canada with wireless coverage.
About Aliant*
From its home base in Atlantic Canada, Aliant delivers a wide variety of innovative and traditional communications services, including local and long distance telephony, wireless, Internet, e-commerce, interactive multimedia, data and managed network services, to more than two million consumers and over 80,000 enterprises. In addition to serving residential, small-to-medium sized business and enterprise customers in its home market, Aliant also serves business customers located in other parts of North America. Aliant complements its industry-leading telecommunications business with strengths in information technology solutions and knowledge-services applications. Aliant's approximately 8,400 employees build on its 100-plus year history by collaborating to deliver the highest quality of customer service, choice, and convenience. Aliant has a market capitalization of approximately $3.7 billion.
*On March 7, 2006, Aliant and BCE Inc. announced the creation of one of the largest regional telecommunications service providers in North America. The organizations will combine Bell Canada's wireline operations in its regional territories in Ontario and Quebec with Aliant's wireline operations and Bell's 63.4 per cent interest in the Bell Nordiq Income Fund to form a new income trust. The trust, which will have 3.4 million local access lines and over 400,000 high-speed Internet subscribers in the Atlantic Provinces, Ontario and Quebec, will be headquartered in Atlantic Canada. As part of the transaction, Bell will acquire Aliant Mobility and Aliant's DownEast Communications retail outlets. The transaction, which is expected to be completed as early as the third quarter of 2006, is subject to several closing conditions, including certain shareholder, court and regulatory approvals. For more information please visit www.aliant.ca.
For more information contact:
Peter Murchland, Aliant Communications and Public Affairs
(902) 487-3165 or (902) 499-5837 |
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