{"id":6250,"date":"2008-01-10T13:55:09","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T13:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/alltel-partners-with-aaa.html"},"modified":"2008-01-10T13:55:09","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T13:55:09","slug":"alltel-partners-with-aaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/alltel-partners-with-aaa.html","title":{"rendered":"Alltel Partners with AAA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Years back, many of my colleagues and&nbsp;I waxed poetic about location based services. Now it seems, with the aid of GPS, these services are being <a href=\"http:\/\/internetcommunications.tmcnet.com\/topics\/broadband-mobile\/articles\/18043-alltel-offer-aaa-mobile.htm\">rolled out<\/a>. A really interesting one has been announced by AAA the automobile club and Alltel.<\/p>\n<p>The way it works is your GPS-enabled Alltel phone allows you to know the closest establishments where AAA savings may be had. This could save people a great deal of money as AAA has over 100,000 locations working with them to provide savings.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the phone works to alert AAA if you have car trouble. Obviously it can also send your location information instantaneously. This is especially helpful if you aren&#8217;t sure where you are. For example broken down on a remote back road in the middle of nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>AAA Mobile is powered by the <!--ZZZLinkBegZZZ-->Networks In Motion&nbsp;(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/snapshots\/snapshots.aspx?Company=Networks+In+Motion\">News<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/enews\/subs.aspx?k1=%22Networks+In+Motion%22\">Alert<\/a>)<!--ZZZLinkEndZZZ--> (NIM) location-based services platform can be downloaded from select GPS-enabled wireless phones such as the Samsung u520, LG AX8600, Samsung r500, <!--ZZZLinkBegZZZ-->Motorola&nbsp;(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/snapshots\/snapshots.aspx?Company=Motorola\">News<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/enews\/subs.aspx?k1=Motorola&amp;k2=+RAZR&amp;k3=+iDen\">Alert<\/a>)<!--ZZZLinkEndZZZ--> Z6M, Motorola V9m, and Motorola V3a.<\/p>\n<p>This is a great service and should make Alltel service that much stickier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years back, many of my colleagues and&nbsp;I waxed poetic about location based services. Now it seems, with the aid of GPS, these services are being rolled out. A really interesting one has been announced by AAA the automobile club and Alltel. The way it works is your GPS-enabled Alltel phone allows you to know the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,118,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}