Centigram Provides Enhanced Paging Solutions to Cue Network Customers; Series 6 Delivers Enhanced Wireless Applications to Growing Nationwide Subscriber Base.

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 28, 1996--Centigram Communications Corporation (NASDAQ:CGRM), a leading global provider of communications solutions, today announced that CUE Network Corporation, a California-based regional and nationwide paging company, has purchased Centigram's Series 6 communications server to improve communications of its more than 150,000 subscribers.

CUE Network is the only paging company to offer FM satellite paging instead of land-based paging, allowing for superior paging coverage to a more widespread subscriber base.

The Centigram Series 6 will enable CUE customers to have voice mail and fax services via direct inward dialing (DID) and 800 numbers for improved communications.

"The paging industry has grown increasingly competitive in the last year and leading-edge solutions such as Series 6 give CUE a critical edge over our competition to help our customers communicate more effectively and efficiently," said Gordon Kaiser, CUE chairman and CEO.

"We chose Centigram's Series 6 because it offers the most comprehensive package of messaging and paging applications at an affordable price. Centigram's experience in the marketplace makes them the ideal company to partner with to develop new applications and new ways of marketing to our customers."

"CUE is an innovative leader in the paging market, and we are pleased to be working with them," said George Sollman, Centigram president and CEO. "They came to us looking for a flexible, reliable platform that is packed with cutting-edge applications, and we showed them Series 6. CUE agreed that this server is the best solution for its diverse and expanding customer base."

Centigram's Market Leadership Program

Centigram and CUE are also working together to develop new marketing and sales programs for CUE as part of Centigram's Market Leadership Program, which extends Centigram's industry knowledge and expertise to service provider customers worldwide.

This program is the first in the industry to deliver a comprehensive, fully integrated, customized program designed to increase and expand providers' revenue streams, maximize resources to reduce costs, and help create market leadership.

It focuses on key areas of a service launch, including operations, market research, promotions, media relations, product packaging and pricing, sales planning and tracking, customer support and billing requirements. The program also offers consultancy services to help providers create an enhanced services deployment plan customized to their market requirements.

Centigram's Series 6

Series 6 increases system capacity at the high end with its Model 640 by offering up to 240 ports, 2,880 hours of message storage, and more than 300,000 mailboxes in a single system, while maintaining one consistent user interface and software base across all models of the product range.

Series 6 also meets the needs of smaller organizations, providing the latest capabilities while maintaining competitive pricing across the entire product range. It offers industry-leading fault tolerance with full disk redundancy and no single point of failure.

Series 6 supports industry standards, including the multi-vendor industry protocol (MVIP) bus and Signaling System 7 (SS7)-based networks which allow for future advanced intelligent network applications such as voice-activated dialing and advanced messaging services. Current features offer the benefits of communication flexibility for today's increasingly mobile customers.

CUE Network Corporation

CUE provides nationwide messaging services throughout North America over the FM subcarrier facilities of more than 500 radio stations. The network covers 95 percent of the population of Canada and the U.S. with a seamless footprint covering more than two million square miles serving more than 150,000 subscribers.

CUE also distributes real-time differential global positioning correction data over its North American network, which increases the accuracy of the signals received from GPS satellites to less than one meter. A CUE subsidiary, Computer Radio Network (CRN), will soon broadcast wireless alerts for news and electronic mail to PCs and Internet-connected televisions.

Centigram Communications Corporation

Centigram is a leading global provider of wireless and wireline communications solutions. Centigram delivers communications solutions by integrating voice, data and facsimile on its Series 6 communications server, and by providing access to this multimedia information through a telephone or PC. The Series 6 platform is based on industry-standard hardware and software. Centigram also licenses TruVoice, its patented text-to-speech software.

Centigram is headquartered at 91 East Tasman Drive, San Jose, Calif., 95134. Phone [phone], fax [phone], World Wide Web http://www.centigram.com. Centigram has sales and support offices in North America, Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. -0-

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