[2145] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
New Commercial Internet Service - two-way wireless Internet Mail.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow)
Tue Jan 28 14:33:10 1992
To: com-priv@psi.com
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 92 11:33:29 PST
From: the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow <geoff@fernwood.mpk.ca.us>
ANTERIOR TECHNOLOGY INTRODUCES FIRST TWO-WAY WIRELESS ELECTRONIC MAIL SERVICE
MENLO PARK, CALIF. (Jan 28) - Anterior Technology today introduced
two-way RadioMail(TM), a wireless electronic mail gateway service that
for the first time provides users of portable computers with access to
public and private e-mail systems and online information services.
"Portable computers cut the first wire -- the power cord. RadioMail
cuts the telephone wire, the one remaining wire tying users to their
desks," stated Geoffrey S. Goodfellow, President and CEO of Anterior
Technology. "RadioMail makes `anywhere, anytime' computing a reality."
Two-way RadioMail will first be available on the Hewlett-Packard 95LX
palmtop, using the Mobidem wireless radio modem from Ericsson GE and
the RAM Mobile Data USA Limited Partnership nationwide "packet"
data-radio network. One-way RadioMail delivery of e-mail using
alpha-numeric paging technology has been available since October 1991.
"With RadioMail, portable computer users can send and receive e-mail
messages whether they're in the boardroom, out in the field, or even
on the beach," said Goodfellow. "RadioMail makes true remote wireless
communications possible, completely freeing users from their desks."
The Anterior RadioMail gateway service provides wireless users
seamless integration with existing "wired" e-mail systems and operates
over both standard dial-up phone lines and wide area network services.
Portable computer users equipped with a wireless two-way radio modem,
such as Ericsson GE's Mobidem, will be assigned a "Radio Mailbox(TM)"
address. Users will be able to send and receive messages from local
and wide area e-mail networks such as ATTMail, CompuServe, the TCP/IP
Internet, UUCP/USENET, and LAN-base corporate e-mail systems such as
Lotus cc:Mail.
Mitchell D. Kapor, founder of Lotus Development Corporation, On
Technology, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and an early user of
RadioMail's wireless e-mail services, stated, "When I'm away from a
deskbound computer, RadioMail lets me see if something urgent is
happening so I can take action before I get back to my office."
RadioMail is being introduced at COMNET in Washington D.C., and is one
of the top five featured new products at DEMO '92, a computer industry
product review and demonstration show in Palm Springs, California.
Commercial two-way RadioMail service will be inaugurated in March when
initial deliveries of the Ericsson GE Mobidem are available.
Anterior Technology is a communications and information services
distribution company that has been providing electronic mail
connectivity and information distribution services since 1988. In
addition to RadioMail, Anterior offers AgentSee(TM), a wireless news
wire headline service to paging carriers and turnkey communication
services for Internet, UNIX UUCP, and Lotus cc:Mail sites.
CONTACT: Anterior Technology, Menlo Park
415/328-5615
e-mail: info @ radiomail.net
