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Pagers link folks on-the-go to e-mail
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August 18, 1999
Web posted at: 11:24 a.m. EDT (1524 GMT)
by Nancy Weil
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(IDG) -- For those who break out in a cold sweat at the thought of not being able to keep up with e-mail at all times, relief comes with word that GoAmerica Communications is now offering access to all POP3 mail service via two-way pagers. Subscribers to GoAmerica's wireless Internet service will be able to read, reply to, forward or delete messages retrieved and read using pagers from Waterloo, Ontario-based Research in Motion.
Both the 950 Interactive Messenger and the Blackberry pager can be used to wirelessly deal with e-mail, including messages sent using Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes. GoAmerica, in Hackensack, N.J., offers wireless Internet service starting at $9.95 monthly. POP3 e-mail access is free with a subscription to GoAmerica's Go.Web personalized interactive Web content service, the company said in a statement announcing the e-mail service.
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