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Apple Awards Network Contracts For Online Services To Sprint & BT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Albert Willis)
Tue Aug 10 13:12:04 1993
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 93 12:36:28 EST
From: awillis@MIT.EDU (Albert Willis)
To: bcs-newton@world.std.com
Cc: newton_pda_group@bcsmac.bcs.org
Apple Awards Network Contracts For Online Services To Sprint & BT
Contact:
Christopher Escher
Apple Computer, Inc.
(408) 974-2202
Apple Awards Network Contracts For Online Services To Sprint & BT
CUPERTINO, California--August 2, 1993--Apple Online Services, the
electronic services business unit within Apple Computer's Personal
Interactive Electronics (PIE) division, today announced it has
awarded contracts to Sprint, as primary contractor, and BT North
America, Inc. to provide network carrier service in North America for
Apple's future on-line services.
Users of Apple Newton devices, Macintosh personal computers, and PCs
running MS/DOS or Windows are expected to have access to these rich
information services in the future.
As the selected network carriers for the United States and Canada,
both companies will provide a key component of the new services being
developed by Apple Online Services. Network carriers for the Pacific
Rim countries and Europe will be announced at a later date.
"Through leveraging Apple core technology, licensing agreements and
partnerships like the ones announced today, we plan to expand our
portfolio of robust,fully featured yet easy to use electronic
services delivered across multiple platforms." said Peter Friedman,
director of Apple Online Services. "Both Sprint and BT offer extensive
network coverage within the US and Canada--enabling our customers to
easily access our services with a local phone call."
Apple is growing its electronic services business to design and
develop value added services which will enable customers to
communicate with each other worldwide, to gain access to a wide range
of information, and to use transaction services such as travel
bookings and banking.
"We have been working closely with Apple on a variety of projects
for years, and as a result we've deliberately customized a network that
will support users of Apple Online Services today and in the future,"
commented Kevin E. Brauer, the president of Sprint's Business Market
Group. "It's another reflection of our teaming with an acknowledged
leader in the computer industry.
"The combination of BT's 20 plus years experience supplying
international network solutions to the information services industry
and Apple's expertise in the personal computing area will allow Apple
to provide world class on-line information to its vast community of
end-users," stated Don Heath, vice president of Product Management
and Marketing at BT North America.
Apple Online Services is Apple's information services business unit
and currently provides commercial information services such as
AppleLink and AppleLink CD to 60,000 subscribers in 52 countries
around the world.
Sprint is a diversified international telecommunications company
with more than $10 billion annual revenue in the United States' only
nationwide all-digital, fiber-optic network. Its divisions provide
global long distance voice, data and video products and
services;local telephone services to 6 million subscriber lines in
19 states, and cellular service in 42 metropolitan markets and more
50 rural markets across the nation.
British Telecom is a leader in worldwide telecommunications. It
operates one of the largest networks in the world and offers a wide
range of international services. BT has annual revenues over $20
billion and employs a staff of approximately 172,000 worldwide.
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Apple, the Apple logo and Macintosh are registered trademarks and
Newton is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc.
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