AT&T Co and SkyTel Corp claim to have the industry’s first international wireless mailbox enabling business people on the move to link electronic mail and paging capabilities with a notebook. The AT&T Safari notebook can pick up wireless messages from the SkyTel satellite-based messaging network with SkyTel’s Link – a pocket-sized message receiver and interface adaptor. The Safari Wireless Mailbox package costs $450 and includes the SkyTel Link and Windows-based message-retrieval software for the Safari. SkyTel service starts at $48 per month; the average price of a 40-character message is 75 cents. Additional charges for AT&T’s EasyLink Services message delivery to the SkyTel network will be announced later this year. The SkyTel Link message receiver captures and stores 20 messages of up to 240 characters in length, even when not connected to the computer and messages can be broadcast simultaneously to pre-programmed lists of Wireless Mailboxes.
