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Article: AT&T Wireless Offers Text Messaging Service for Businesses; Businesses Can Now Send Large Volumes of Text Messages to Their Employees or Customers.
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- Business Wire
- Article date:
- May 21, 2002
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Business Editors/Technology Writers
REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 21, 2002
In an industry first, AT&T Wireless (NYSE:AWE) today introduced a new service that gives businesses the ability to send large volumes of text messages to the wireless phones of their employees and participating customers.
The new service will allow businesses to send either individualized text messages or mass broadcast messages to large, targeted audiences. The company said that the service can provide a host of valuable applications to many different industries:
-- Airlines can notify individual customers of flight delays or changes in
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