What's News?: Cingular Bridges Wireless and Wireline

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This aDRD (Announcement Data Rich Deliverable) is part of the Business Wireless, Competitive Profiles and Enterprise Business subscriptions. This announcement discusses Cingular’s newly announced OfficeReach, which aims to give medium to large enterprise businesses more control over their wireline and wireless expenditures. Business wireless includes both wireless voice and data services, as well as wireless equipment.  Wireless voice includes dial tone related services, where voice calls are delivered over a wireless network.  This category includes per-minute charges, base charges in flat-rate plans and for-fee, value-added services related to wireless voice transport, i.e., voice-activated dialing, voicemail, call forwarding, call waiting, and caller ID.  Wireless data includes expenditures on for-fee data transport services over a wireless network, even when sessions are terminated on a wireline network.  This category includes fixed wireless; satellite broadcast Internet services; wireless Web services and private/proprietary wireless data network services, as well as one-time service-related charges such as equipment set up (not related to applications integration).  This category does not include hosting fees for wireless-accessible applications, one-time applications integration or equipment rental. Enterprise Business (Over 1000 employees).  The Expert Guide for this deliverable is Stephanie Atkinson.
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