BellSouth Interactive Paging-SM Service to be Showcased At Red Herring's Venture Market South Event.

WOODBRIDGE, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 16, 1999--More than 500 venture capitalists, members of the investment banking and professional services community, business development representatives from large technology companies and entrepreneurs attending the three-day Venture Market South event in Atlanta, March 15-17, will stay wirelessly connected to important colleagues, business contacts, and even friends and family with the BellSouth Interactive Paging Service. The advanced interactive messaging service from BellSouth Wireless Data was chosen to be showcased during the event. The company will provide RIM Inter@ctive(TM) Pager 950's to the 500 attendees at the show.

Produced by Red Herring Communications Inc., Venture Market South will feature 44 of the Southeast's most promising private technology companies, which will make presentations in an attempt to secure venture capital financing and business development deals. When equipped with the BellSouth Interactive Paging Service, attendees will be able to easily communicate via Internet e-mail to anywhere in the world, pager, phone or fax, with their colleagues at the office and peers at the conference.

"Venture Market South is a perfect venue to showcase our industry-leading technology to an audience that epitomizes the term `people on-the-go,'" said William F. Lenahan, president and CEO of BellSouth Wireless Data. "These deal makers need to stay always connected so that they do not miss a million dollar opportunity, even when they're at a conference like Venture Market South. The BellSouth Interactive Paging Service can help them to do just that." "We select only the hottest and most productive technologies available today to showcase at our Venture Market programs," said John Mecklenburg, managing editor, events. "Clearly, the BellSouth Interactive Paging Service fits that category and will be a significant value-add for those attending our conference."

Introduced in September 1998, the BellSouth Interactive Paging Service offers people on the go the ability to initiate and respond to messages in seconds rather than minutes via Internet e-mail and other pagers, and send messages to fax machines and telephones. Interactive paging uses the RIM Inter@ctive Pager 950, a wearable, hand-held device with a full keyboard that uses an Intel386(TM) processor.

About Red Herring Communications, Inc.

Red Herring Communications, Inc., a privately held San Francisco based media company, meets the specialized information needs of strategic business decision makers. Red Herring, the monthly business magazine for technology, focuses on trends in technology and the companies driving them. Red Herring's high-level industry conferences, such as the Venture Market series and NDA, bring the trends to life and showcases the emerging companies behind the innovations. Redherring.com provides business professionals and personal investors with daily technology news, analysis and in-depth company profiles.

More information about Red Herring Communications can be found at http://www.redherring.com.

About BellSouth Wireless Data

BellSouth Wireless Data, L.P., headquartered in Woodbridge, N.J., is an expert in providing proven wireless data communications solutions that eliminate the barriers between critical information and mobile users. The company, a winner of the prestigious Sears Innovation Source of the Year and Partners in Progress awards for 1997, delivers a competitive advantage and increases personal productivity for aggressive, innovative companies and individuals leveraging communications technologies to meet their strategic goals. BellSouth Wireless Data operates its wireless data service throughout the United States, covering more than 93 percent of the urban business population located in 266 metropolitan areas with a total population of 200 million people.

BellSouth Wireless Data is a subsidiary of BellSouth Corporation, which provides telecommunications, wireless communications, cable and digital TV, directory advertising and publishing, and Internet and data services to nearly 33 million customers in 19 countries worldwide. E-mail: [e-mail]. Web site address: www.bellsouthwd.com.