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Article: Messaging company finds success as middleman. (National Dispatch Center Inc.) (includes company profile)
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- San Diego Business Journal
- Article date:
- June 3, 1996
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When Western Wireless Corp. decided to initiate its new electronic message service in Hawaii in April, it wanted bilingual telephone operators.
The only catch: The operators had to speak Pidgin English, a form of English using rudimentary grammar and vocabulary, spoken mostly on the Pacific islands and in West Africa. ("How you be go stay?" Translation: "How are you?").
This would have been a problem for many companies but not the National Dispatch Center (NDC) in San Diego, which provides Western Wireless with operator-assisted paging and messaging services.
"About 600,000 people in Hawaii speak pidgin as a first or second language," said Beth Walsh, ...