Overview
Sprint EssentialsSM offers you a feature-rich package of services that meets the needs of busy end users who want to make the very most of their local telephone service. It's a good way for you to make existing dial-tone service work even harder for your customers.
Sprint Essentials makes it easy for CLECs to offer their customers a package of popular features like Caller ID, Call Waiting and Call Forwarding.
With Sprint Essentials, you may:
- Add a package of calling features your customers have been requesting.
- Add to your bottom line from your existing customer base.
- Expand your appeal to prospective customers.
Features & Benefits
- Includes today's popular calling features - allows you to easily enrich the portfolio of services you offer your existing customers while broadening your appeal to prospective customers. Descriptions of the components of Sprint Essentials are located in the "Product Details" section.
- Package approach - makes billing your customers easier than it would be if each service were offered individually.
Product Details
Sprint Essentials is a good, basic package of today's calling features. It is available in all of Sprint's Local Telecommunications Division (LTD) territories with electronically controlled central offices that are equipped to offer these great services. Sprint Essentials is available with individual line and rotary line service; it is not available for pay telephone service.
Your customers with existing dial-tone service have been asking for these features; now Sprint makes it easy for you to answer their requests and add to your bottom line each month. With Sprint Essentials, your customers will enjoy the following features:
- Caller ID - The standard in today's home, Caller ID lets your customers see who is calling before they answer - and lets them decide if it's a call they want to answer. Caller ID can be viewed on an ancillary device attached to the customer's telephone set or on a special telephone set with the display unit built in. Caller ID also stores names and numbers, creating a personal "phone book" for the customer.
- Call Waiting - In today's busy world, Call Waiting allows your customers to put the first call on hold to answer the second one.
- Call Waiting ID - This feature adds power to Caller ID and Call Waiting, allowing your customers to see who is on the other line before deciding whether or not to put the first call on hold.
- Call Forwarding - Lets your customers take calls made to their home number or business with them, wherever they go, by forwarding those calls to a new number.
- Return Call - With Return Call, your customers can call back to the last person who called their home number - even if they don't know who that person was (this feature will not work if the incoming caller has Per Call Blocking or All Call Blocking).
- Repeat Dial - This feature turns busy signals into connections by ringing both your customer's phone and the number that was busy as soon as that number is free. Repeat Dial also works whether the last number called was answered or not, saving your customers dialing time on frequently dialed numbers.
- Three-Way Calling - Three-way calling lets your customers talk to two people at once. And, if one person disconnects, the other two can stay connected.
- Anonymous Call Rejection - Your customers will be able to send unwanted callers (those whose numbers they have blocked through Caller ID Per Call or All Call Blocking, as well as those who use *67 to block Caller ID identification) to a prerecorded message that informs the caller that this number does not accept blocked calls.
Business Applications
- Enables you to provide your customers with the calling features they want in a package that simplifies marketing and billing.
- Allows you to upsell those who have asked for one service (such as Caller ID) into a package of complementary services.
- Expands your reach into the small business market with services (such as Return Call and Three-Way Calling) that are essential for businesses that want to make their phone service work harder for them.
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