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November 8, 2001
VoiceStream Wireless is offering a cell phone with instant-messaging capabilities already built in, thanks to a deal the company signed with America Online.
VoiceStream is including AOL Instant Messenger products as a feature on the new Nokia 3390 phone. That phone already offers SMS (short messaging service), a text-based messaging system widely popular among cell phone users in Europe, but has been slow to catch on in the United States.
AOL Instant Messenger is the leader in PC-based messaging services, with about 28 million members, according to Jupiter Media Metrix.
AOL has been working to increase the presence of its product; it already had a deal with VoiceStream to allow people to download a version of the service onto their phones, and has a similar deal with Sprint PCS.
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