teleguy
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Jun 2, 2005, 9:04 PM
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If Sprint and GE have their way, this may describe your next home buying experience:
You walk up to an empty house with your Realtor. He pulls out his cell phone and points it to a small box on the front door and zap! Without fiddling with a combination lock, he has a key and is showing you in.
When you ask about features of the home, instead of "I'll check when I get back to the office." he views his phone screen and provides the answer you are looking for. You know right away this is (or maybe isn't) the home you are looking for.
Give your instant review. How would this make it easier, or harder, for you to find a home?
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Sprint and GE Offer Unique Wireless Solution to Meet Needs of REALTORS® OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — 06/01/2005
Sprint (NYSE: FON) and GE are now working together to provide the eKEY and Supra iBox System along with Sprint PCS VisionSM Smart Devices to real estate boards and agencies across the United States. This combined wireless solution saves REALTORS® time by being connected wherever they are on the Sprint Nationwide PCS Network and helps them show more property by receiving daily updated information via a handheld wireless device.
The eKEY and Supra iBox System from GE is an electronic keybox with remote control access via an infrared beam between the keybox and a wireless handheld device. When combined with a device such as the Sprint PCS Vision Smart Device Treo™ 650 by palmOne and Sprint PCS Vision Smart Device (Samsung i500), the real estate professional can access the Supra iBox for immediate entry to show property, retrieve automatic daily updates on the REALTOR®’s property listings using the Supra iBox technology and access the Web for updated Multiple Listing Service (MLS) data.
“Sprint is focused on helping businesses more easily adopt wireless solutions to enhance communication,” said Dana Chase, vice president of marketing – Emerging and Mid-Markets, Sprint Business Solutions. “We’re excited to partner with GE’s technology innovation in the Supra iBox to help real estate professionals have a mobile office, giving them the ability to make the most of their time when they are on the go.”
GE currently has agreements with more than 100 real estate boards and related organizations across the country that make the Supra iBox System available for REALTORS®. GE is continuing to expand availability by finalizing agreements with a growing number of REALTOR® organizations and actively working with REALTORS® to adopt the solution. Once a real estate board or related organization installs the compatible keybox system, individual REALTORS® can purchase the packaged wireless solution from Sprint.
Sprint is offering up to $610 in savings to real estate professionals who purchase a GE certified Sprint PCS Vision Smart Device and choose a Sprint PCS Vision Professional Pack with a two-year Sprint PCS wireless agreement.
About Sprint
Sprint offers an extensive range of innovative communication products and solutions, including global IP, wireless, local and multiproduct bundles. A Fortune 100 company with more than $27 billion in annual revenues in 2004, Sprint is widely recognized for developing, engineering and deploying state-of-the-art network technologies, including the United States' first nationwide all-digital, fiber-optic network; an award-winning Tier 1 Internet backbone; and one of the largest 100-percent digital, nationwide wireless networks in the United States.
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