Bell Mobility and OmniVoice Technologies Team in Canadian Voice Paging Trials; Technology Lays Groundwork to Deliver Multimedia Content to Paging Users.SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 27, 1998--OmniVoice Technologies Inc., a joint venture partner with NDC NDC National Drug Code NDC NATO Defense College NDC National Documentation Centre (National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece) NDC National Dairy Council NDC National Democratic Congress and Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (Nasdaq:LHSPF, Easdaq:LHSP-ED), today announced that Bell Mobility, Canada's largest provider of paging services, will begin beta trials of its digital voice paging technology. Bell Mobility currently serves more than 500,000 subscribers in Ontario and Quebec. Beta trials of OmniVoice's voice paging technology are also underway in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and Mexico. Brian Cotton, telecommunications industry manager for Frost & Sullivan, stated, "We expect that voice paging will become one of the more promising products in the advanced messaging market in the near future. From 1998 to 2008, our estimates suggest that voice messaging Using voice mail as an alternative to electronic mail, in which voice messages are intentionally recorded, not because the recipient was not available. may exhibit a compound annual growth rate (CAGR CAGR See: Compound Annual Growth Rate ) of almost 70 percent in North America. "Although voice paging may not be a product for all end-user segments, it will find applications with certain niches, for whom voice paging is a desirable complement to text-based messaging." OmniVoice's technology leverages the FLEX(TM) infrastructure, enabling carriers to add voice capabilities to existing FLEX paging networks. For Bell Mobility, with an existing FLEX network consisting of 350 transmitters throughout Ontario and Quebec, the potential benefits of utilizing OmniVoice's paging technology are compelling. "We are continually looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. ways to expand and improve on the types of services we can offer our customers, and still maintain a competitive position in the marketplace," said Bell Mobility Director of Paging, Gord Austin. "OmniVoice's technology provides us with a way to offer our paging customers the added value of voice, without a heavy investment in infrastructure." "Bell Mobility is world-renowned for its leading edge technology and expertise," said Kathleen Layton, president and chief executive officer of OmniVoice. "We're extremely pleased to work together in testing this powerful new messaging tool." Oi Electric, a Mitsubishi affiliate, is the first pager manufacturer to incorporate the technology in a voice-enabled device. Its 3N1 pager simultaneously supports voice, text and numeric messages, and operates using a single AA battery. It can store and play (or display) up to 99 voice messages. A total of 1200 seconds of digitized and compressed voice messages, each up to 20 seconds in length, is supported. About Bell Mobility Bell Mobility family of companies provides a complete range of wireless communications solutions -- cellular, 1- and 2-way paging, data, satellite, PCS (1) (Personal Communications Services) Refers to wireless services that emerged after the U.S. government auctioned commercial licenses in 1994 and 1995. This radio spectrum in the 1. and airline passenger communications services -- to more than 1.5 million Canadian customers. Bell Mobility companies are subsidiaries of BCE BCE abbr. 1. Bachelor of Chemical Engineering 2. Bachelor of Civil Engineering BCE Abbreviation for before the Common Era. Mobile Communications Inc., a publicly traded company publicly traded company A company whose shares of common stock are held by the public and are available for purchase by investors. The shares of publicly traded firms are bought and sold on the organized exchanges or in the over-the-counter market. (TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). , ME, NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange ; stock symbol BCX BCX Beloreck (Russia) ) which is 65% owned by BCE Inc. For more information about Bell Mobility, please visit www.bellmobility.ca. About OmniVoice Technologies Inc. Founded in July 1995 as NDC Voice and renamed OmniVoice Technologies, Inc. in June 1998, San Diego-based OmniVoice is a world-class provider of advanced wireless voice-messaging applications. The company offers leading-edge technology for the transmission of wireless voice messages over low data-rate digital transmission systems. By combining industry expertise, innovative technology, a flexible infrastructure and entrepreneurial spirit, the company is able to provide wireless carriers with fully integrated end-to-end solutions. OmniVoice has leveraged the core competencies of its founding partners, Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (L&H) and the National Dispatch Center Inc. (privately held) to bring innovative wireless-voice capabilities to mobile consumer devices. L&H is a worldwide market leader in speech and linguistic technologies, products and services. NDC is the premier gateway provider of wireless messaging services in the United States. |
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