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Sprint Teams With Innovation Technologies to Offer Hotel Industry Voice Messaging Solutions

Posted on: Monday, 21 June 2004, 06:00 CDT

OVERLAND PARK, Kan., June 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Sprint has reached an agreement with Innovation Technologies Worldwide, Inc., to offer its customized suite of voice mail systems to the hospitality industry, including Innovations' Elite and InnLine 2020 voice mail systems.

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"Innovation Technologies is the leader in providing both hospitality voice mail services and call accounting applications," said Tom McChesney, director of hospitality marketing segment, Sprint Business Solutions. "By working with Innovation Technologies, Sprint has strengthened its portfolio of services geared specifically for the hospitality industry, adding to its suite of voice, data, wireless, payphone and networking services."

The Elite and InnLine products combine voice mail, call accounting, call forwarding, automated attendant and wake-up calls into one powerful system. It turns guest phones into complete information centers that run on the property's current PBX, interface with its PMS and is capable of scaling to a converged or VoIP network in the future. Guests enjoy the benefits of ease of use of the features and properties enjoy increased productivity and profitability.

Features include:

-- Voice messaging for guests and staff, including personal greetings,

remote message access, deleted-message recovery and wake-up call setup.

-- Call forwarding to a mobile phone.

-- Call accounting in a Windows environment that integrates with the

property's PMS, supports 911 call notification and features easy-to-

read, customizable reports to help the property better understand its

call patterns.

-- Privateline, an application that assigns up to three private numbers

(phone, data and fax, for example) to a guest upon check-in. This is

particularly popular in an extended-stay environment where guests want

the privacy and cost benefit of a local phone number for the duration

of their stay.

"We are proud to partner with Sprint, and become part of their outstanding portfolio of hospitality-focused solutions," said Doug Schwartz, president for Innovation Technologies. "We're excited about the opportunity to leverage Sprint's network and wireless technologies to develop new applications for hoteliers worldwide."

Sprint can provide hotels an affordable and complete communications system, enabling guests to be connected with immediate and accessible voice, Internet and video solutions. These offerings can provide multi-channel contact center solutions, managed and maintenance services and top-ranking network reliability. To learn more about insurance solutions from Sprint, please visit: http://www.sprintbiz.com/solutions/hospitality/index.html.

About Sprint

Sprint is a global integrated communications provider serving more than 26 million customers in over 100 countries. With approximately 65,000 employees worldwide and over $26 billion in annual revenues in 2003, 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 and an award-winning Tier 1 Internet backbone. Sprint provides local communications services in 39 states and the District of Columbia and operates the largest 100-percent digital, nationwide PCS wireless network in the United States. For more information, visit http://www.sprint.com/ .

About Innovation Technologies Worldwide, Inc.

Since 1988, Innovation Technologies, based in Cross Plains, Wisc., has been focused on hospitality voice messaging solutions. Innovation products are found in over 6000 locations: everywhere from b&bs to convention-size hotels, and are endorsed by major hotel chains. Guest Messaging, staff services, auto- attendant, wake-up calls and direct-dial functionality are just the beginning of Innovation's vision. For more information about Innovation Technologies Worldwide, please visit http://www.innovationtw.com/ .

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CONTACT: Amy Schiska of Sprint, +1-913-794-2947,amy.k.schiska@mail.sprint.com ; or Lynne Blair of Innovation TechnologiesWorldwide, Inc., +1-608-798-3555, ext. 201, marketing@innovationtw.com

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