SBC Communications Announces IP-Based Service That Syncs Wireline and Wireless Voicemails, Faxes, and Emails

Cingular Wireless integration: Unified Communications integrates with Cingular Wireless, so customers can access wireless messages from the same portal as landline, email, and fax messages.

Integrated message center: Unified Communications' integrated message center allows subscribers to view wireless and wireline voicemail, email, and fax subject lines all in one inbox. Unified Communications uses an email-like interface, allowing for prioritization and organization of messages.

Message access: The text-to-speech technology reads emails over the phone. Users can listen to voicemails over their computers. Customers can "untie" from the fax machine by checking fax message headers from the phone, and view and print them through the computer.

Message indicators: When customers receive a new email, voicemail or fax, a message indicator alert can be sent to their online mailbox, and wireless and wireline phones - if the customer activates the message indicator alerts. Once messages are checked on one device, the message indicators on the others are updated.

Pager notification: For customers who want to be notified about incoming messages, they can activate the pager function, which sends a notification of a new message to their pagers or wireless phones.

Online storage: Unified Communications comes with 50 MB of storage for consumers and 100 MB for businesses, and customers can purchase up to 150 MB of additional storage space in 50 MB increments.

Separate mailboxes: Users can establish four shared Unified Communications mailboxes under one platform, allowing business colleagues and families to keep their messages separate, each owning a mailbox with separate security codes.

Distribution lists: Customers can establish as many as 15 distribution lists, each with up to 25 entries. These entries can be telephone numbers or email addresses.