Pacific Telesis Group’s Pacific Bell unit is using Unisys Corp’s Voice Messaging System for residential voice in its Message Center, making the system available to 1.6m San Francisco-area residents, in what is the first major implementation for the enhanced services market of the Unisys Network Applications Platform hardware and software system for the telecommunications industry; the system enables customers to use their touch tone phones to dial the Pacific Bell Message Center to provide call answering, accepting spoken messages when the phone is not answered or when it is busy; users can also send a spoken reply to the original sender or pass the message on to another person; send messages to other users or groups without calling them directly via a distribution list held by system, and assign each member of the family a unique voice mail number; no value given.
