AirTouch Cellular to Deploy Cellular Technical Services' Blackbird in Sacramento.SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 24, 1998--AirTouch Communications (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :ATI (ATI Technologies Inc., Markham Ontario, http://ati.amd.com) A leading manufacturer of graphics chips and display adapters. Founded in 1985 by K. Y. Ho, Benny Lau and Lee Lau, ATI chips and boards are widely used by OEMs. ) and Cellular Technical Services Company, Inc. (NASDAQ/NM Symbol: CTSC CTSC Cathepsin CTSC Clinical and Translational Science Center (University of California at Davis) CTSC Chenega Technology Services Corporation CTSC Canadian Technical Security Conference (Burlington, ON, Canada) ) ("CTS (1) (Clear To Send) The RS-232 signal sent from the receiving station to the transmitting station that indicates it is ready to accept data. Contrast with RTS. (2) (Common Type System) The data typing used in . ") announced today that they will expand AirTouch Cellular's deployment of the Blackbird(R) Platform and PreTect(tm) cellular cloning fraud prevention system into the Sacramento market during the first quarter of 1998. As part of the expansion, AirTouch will further prevent fraud in Sacramento by participating in CTS's No Clone ZoneSM service which links more than 40 major markets in North America for real-time roaming fraud prevention. "With the Blackbird system, carriers like AirTouch gain protection from the disruption, time and cost of cloning fraud in both home and roaming markets," CTS president Bill Zollner said. As a leader in fighting fraud, AirTouch is already using the Blackbird system in many of its major markets, including Atlanta, Detroit, Los Angeles and San Diego. "AirTouch has experienced about a 75-95 percent drop in home cloning in markets where Blackbird radio frequency fingerprinting has been established," said Jim Arnaout, Managing Director - Fraud Prevention at AirTouch Cellular. "We attribute much of this improvement to the Blackbird system and are looking forward to a high level of protection in our Sacramento market." Cloning fraud is a worldwide problem that costs cellular carriers time and revenue. It also burdens wireless phone users who fall victim to cloning, requiring them to go through a recovery process that involves temporary service interruption, phone reprogramming Reprogramming refers to erasure and remodeling of epigenetic marks, such as DNA methylation, during mammalian development[1]. After fertilization some cells of the newly formed embryo migrate to the germinal ridge and will eventually become the germ cells and bill reconciliation. AirTouch Communications is a global wireless communications company, with interests in cellular, paging, and personal communications services See PCS. in the United States, Belgium, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, South Korea, Spain, and Sweden, as well as an interest in the Globalstar satellite system. The company, based in San Francisco, serves nearly 11 million proportionate customers worldwide. Founded in 1988, CTS provides cellular carriers flexible fraud prevention solutions. The company's Blackbird fraud prevention system is stopping millions of fraudulent calls each week in the largest markets across the North America including Los Angeles, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , San Francisco, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, Atlanta, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington D.C. and San Diego. -0- CTS SAFE HARBOR Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. STATEMENT Special note regarding forward-looking statements: A number of statements contained in this press release are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995 that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the applicable statements. These risks and uncertainties are described in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. -0- Blackbird is a registered trademark, PreTect is a trademark and No Clone Zone is a service mark of Cellular Technical Services Company, Inc. CONTACT: Joyce S. Jones, CTS (206) 727-1254 OR Susan Rosenberg, AirTouch (415) 658-2209 |
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