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Verizon Wireless Rolls Out Group Calling Service

Jun 8, 2010, 7:39 AM by Eric M. Zeman

Verizon Wireless today introduced Group Communication, a new tool that can be used by families or other organizations to contact up to 20 people at once via phone call, text message or voice message. Verizon is offering two different versions of the service. Family Group Contact provides a 1-800 number that when dialed will automatically connect up to 20 lines. The Family Group Contact can include Verizon Wireless numbers from any account, plus one non-Verizon account line. It costs $5 per month and is accessible by any one in the group. Group Contact is the second service, and it is aimed more at small businesses. It offers organizations seven different call groups of 20 lines each, and includes wireless, wireline and international numbers. Each group would have its own 1-800 contact number. Group Contact costs $7 per month.

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gloopey1

Jun 8, 2010, 8:30 PM

Nextel had this years ago...

...on their PTT system. Welcome to the 20th century Verizon.

hendbr8

You're right but that is for a different service. It is specifically only for PTT which VZW offers the same with their PTT. Actually VZW allows you to add more contacts and groups than u can with Sprint. But the group communication that VZW now has av...
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Disrespect

Jun 8, 2010, 8:57 AM

Good? Think again.

I don't like it because they all have to be Verizon with the exception of one out of the 20 can be another phone.

Can you say flop? Business' can not and will not have the time to find out what service their clients have in order to use Verizon's group talk when they can just get group talk through landline company's, Cisco, skype, etc.

navydave

Business often know who they pay for their phone service. So your argument is confusing. The service is for keeping contact with their own employees.

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stinson5043

didn't it say that the family contact is the only one that you could have 1 contact outside of verizon and the Group Contact for business can have cell, wireline, and even international numbers as part of it.

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