Clearnet Announces Mike Roaming Across The USA - With No Roaming Charges.TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 22, 1997--(TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). , ME NET.A., NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on CLNTF. ) Clearnet Communications Inc. ("Clearnet") today announced a world-first integrated wireless services roaming agreement with strategic partner Nextel Communications Nextel Communications, styled NEXTEL, (Former NASDAQ: NXTL) which is now known as the Sprint Nextel Corporation was a telecommunications firm based in the United States. Known for providing a nation-wide mobile communications system. , Inc. ("Nextel") that will offer Mike(TM) clients unprecedented roaming freedom, convenience and economy. Mike Green Card(TM) service allows Clearnet clients to use their all-in-one wireless telecommunications phone across the vast Nextel digital network 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. for the same airtime rate they pay at home, while minimizing the inconveniences and fraud threats encountered by traditional cellular phone users. "This agreement is a key part of our commitment to offer Mike clients the maximum in digital mobility, convenience and affordability," said George Cope, Clearnet President and Chief Executive Officer. "We called our new service Mike Green Card because our clients can now put Mike's mobile phone capability to work in the USA, with the same security, calling ease and mobile phone airtime rates they get at home." Cellular companies typically charge customers traveling in the United States for the ability to use, or "roam" onto a U.S. cellular U.S. Cellular (NYSE: USM) is a super-regional cellular telephone provider, serving 5.8 million customers in 189 markets in 26 U.S. states. The company was created in 1983 as a subsidiary of Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. Since April 2000, John E. company's system. Those users are often charged expensive system access fees and higher per-minute airtime rates when roaming, may be charged for incomplete calls and some systems require special access codes for customers roaming outside their home areas. In cities hit heavily by cell phone fraud, such as 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 , analogue roamers must often even offer their credit card numbers before being allowed to make calls. But with Mike Green Card service, Clearnet clients need only to bring their Mike handset - they don't have to register with carriers in the cities they are visiting, they need no special access codes and their Mike home phone number is all that need be dialed in order to reach them wherever they travel across the Clearnet and Nextel networks. And because the Clearnet and Nextel networks, and the Mike handset, are all-digital, they feature the latest technology to protect against cellular-style "cloning," handset fraud and eavesdropping Secretly gaining unauthorized access to confidential communications. Examples include listening to radio transmissions or using laser interferometers to reconstitute conversations by reflecting laser beams off windows that are vibrating in synchrony to the sound in the room. . Mike offers digital phone service for as low as 20 cents per minute, and all local and long-distance calling is billed by the second, rather than in the full minutes charged by traditional cellular phone providers. Mike Green Card service will be available commencing in July for Mike digital phone, Message Mail and voice mail services. "Cellular phone users often come home to shocking roaming bills after they travel in the U.S., and many of them now simply leave their phones at home rather than face those charges," Cope said. "With Mike Green Card service, our clients get the same low rate for airtime as they do at home, whether they're in New York, Toronto, Los Angeles, Montreal, Windsor or Washington." The Nextel National Network is the largest guaranteed all-digital network in the United States, now covering more than 200 cities. By the end of 1998, Nextel plans to provide digital service to 85 per cent of the areas where the American population lives or works. "Our customers throughout the United States have embraced the benefits of the all-digital Nextel National Network," said Tom Kelly, Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer. "This agreement means Clearnet clients will enjoy the quality, value and simplicity of digital roaming on both sides of the border." Nextel, 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. (NASDAQ: NXTL) based in McLean, VA, is the nation's leading provider of fully integrated wireless communications and has built the largest guaranteed all-digital wireless network in the United States. Clearnet (TSE, ME: NET.A; NASDAQ: CLNTF) is a Canadian wireless communications company that operates the Mike digital network throughout the busy Windsor-to-Quebec corridor, and analogue dispatch communication services across Canada. Awarded a national 30 MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. Personal Communications Services See PCS. (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. ) licence, Clearnet plans to launch PCS in Canada's largest urban centres in 1997. Mike and Mike Green Card are trademarks of Clearnet Communications Inc. licensed to Clearnet Inc. Nextel and Nextel Direct Connect are trademarks and/or service marks of Nextel Communications, Inc. CONTACT: Clearnet Communications Inc., Toronto Mark Langton, 416/684-3454 or 905/837-3454 mlangton@clearnet.com or Vince Surette, 416/684-3041 or 905/837-3041 investorrelations@clearnet.com or Nextel Media Ben Banta, 703/906-3573 or 703/394-3573 ben.banta@nextel.com or Nextel Investor Relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. Paul Blalock, 703/906-3500 or 703/394-3500 paul.blalock@nextel.com |
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