SAN DIEGO-OmniVoice Technologies Inc. announced plans to commence beta trials of its digital voice paging technology with Mexican paging provider Digitel.
OmniVoice’s technology allows paging subscribers to send text and voice pages without the assistance of an operator over a standard FLEX network. Digitel joins U.S. paging carriers TSR Wireless, Arch Communications Group Inc. and Metrocall Inc., which also are testing the technology.
OmniVoice is using the 3N1 pager from Mitsubishi affiliate Oi Electric Corp. during the trial. The voice, text and alphanumeric pager receives short voice messages by telephone and sends the message to a voice-paging terminal equipped with OmniVoice’s proprietary technology.
“The voice service allows recipients to immediately know who is calling, how urgent the call is and the response required, if any,” said Kathleen Layton, president and chief executive officer of OmniVoice. “Integrating voice into a multimedia page reduces expensive cell phone calls and eliminates the need to pull off the road to find a pay phone.”
