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Jim Rulfs or Steve Wood
Wireless Services Corp. (425) 641-3543 jrulfs@wirelesscorp.com swood@wirelesscorp.com |
Stacy Hendricks
The KMC Group (425) 450-9965 x120 stacyh@kmcgroup.com |
Wireless Services Offers GotSports Personalized Sports Information Service Via Pagers, PCS Phones and Email
Company offers free 30-day trial run of wireless email service that delivers the latest in sports news, scores and statistics
Bellevue, WA October 21, 1998 - Wireless Services Corp., a provider of applications and information services to cellular, PCS (Personal Communications Service) and paging businesses, today announced the availability of GotSportsÒ , the personalized sports information service that delivers real-time sports news and information via Internet email, alphanumeric pagers, and PCS phones. Now sports fans have immediate, customized access to the latest in sports news, scores, trades, statistics and detailed injury reports among their favorite teams in professional and college baseball, basketball, football and hockey.
Wireless Services offers a 30-day free trial period for GotSports so that customers can experience the service. To use GotSports, online visitors can sign up for the free trial period via the web site at www.gotsports.com.
Delivering timely, personalized sports information
For wireless subscribers, GotSports delivers to pagers or PCS phones critical team information including starters, weather conditions at game time and final scores within minutes of the end of the games. GotSports sends to the subscribers’ email accounts more in-depth information such as box scores, pre- and post-game summaries, trades, injury updates and statistics. Each subscriber can customize GotSports by selecting which teams to follow and the desired information for each team (summaries, scores, trades, statistics, league standings). Subscribers also have the option to select specific times of the day to receive pages and emails.
Information on GotSports comes from SportsTicker®, the instant sports news and information service of ESPN, Inc. SportsTicker operates 24 hours each day with fast, accurate, reliable and complete sports news and information.
Wireless Services provides an Internet messaging gateway technology for the GotSports service that allows the delivery of text messages to subscribers wherever they are, without any additional hardware or software installations. Subscribers make changes to their profiles via an intuitive, web-based interface.
"GotSports allows true sports fans to keep track of their favorite teams via their pagers and PCS phones," said Steve Wood, president and chief executive officer of Wireless Services Corporation. "With our wireless technology, we can provide this unique sports information service to update fans who are constantly on the move with the latest sports news and information."
Pricing Information
GotSports is available to subscribers for $9.95 per month. For more information, visit the GotSports web site at www.gotsports.com.
About Wireless Services
Founded in 1996, Wireless Services Corp. focuses on providing applications and information services to wireless carriers and the business community. The company was founded to meet the demand for messaging and information services for wireless networks. Wireless Services key expertise includes wireless technology, Internet communications, and database and computer server solutions. The company’s flagship service is AirNote, a wireless email service which delivers Internet mail across paging and digital telephone networks in the U.S. The company is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.