Customers Win With American Mobile's Two-Way Messaging Service.ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 23, 1998-- Network Readiness and Wireless Solutions 'Experience Boost Business Performance of Blue-Chip and Mobile-Professional Customers American Mobile Satellite Corp. (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 :SKYC) today announced at 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. '98 the continued high performance of its nationwide, customer-focused, two-way messaging service. In tandem Adv. 1. in tandem - one behind the other; "ride tandem on a bicycle built for two"; "riding horses down the path in tandem" tandem with the Research In Motion (RIM) Inter@ctive Pager The Inter@ctive Pager, introduced in 1995 by Research In Motion (RIM), allowed users to receive and send messages over the internet via a wireless data network known as Mobitex. , American Mobile has taken the lead in meeting the diverse needs of corporate and mobile professional clients, leveraging the only wireless network today fully optimized for nationwide two-way messaging. Unlike its competitors, American Mobile will not have to play "catch up" with its network to meet the needs of two-way messaging customers. Today, American Mobile's ARDIS (Advanced Radio Data Information Service) The first wireless data network in the U.S. It was formed in 1983 by Motorola and IBM to support IBM field service technicians. (R) wireless data network is optimized for two-way messaging in over 10,700 cities nationwide, boasting the widest coverage footprint and best in-building penetration of any two-way packet data carrier. This powerful combination of true nationwide coverage and deep in-building penetration has enabled organizations including IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Genicom and Sullivan-Schein Dental to successfully deploy thousands of workers with the RIM Inter@ctive Pager over the ARDIS network. Together, the device and network provide a cost-effective, productivity-enhancing way for workers to communicate with peers, dispatchers and management, while also accessing information from corporate databases. "At American Mobile, we deliver business solutions," said Walt Purnell, president at American Mobile. "Our superior network, built from the ground up for two-way messaging, is unrivalled in its scope and performance, but so is our experience translating customers' business needs into powerful, affordable wireless data solutions." The experience and network reliability of American Mobile convinced Bert Shure, president of The Shure Group, a home-based consulting business, to drop his premium paging service and begin leveraging the advantages of two-way messaging and wireless e-mail with American Mobile. Shure, who operates out of San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , forwards multiple e-mail accounts to his RIM Inter@ctive Pager with tremendous results. "I exchange messages daily with a multitude of vendors, consultants and systems implementers," said Shure. "I am constantly on the go. With American Mobile I can run my business, my way, without ever missing a beat." For Lieutenant Gary Gallinot, Santa Monica Santa Monica (săn`tə mŏn`ĭkə), city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. Police Department, missing a beat is not an option. As the Department's press information officer, Gallinot must be able to communicate with the chief of police at a moment's notice. With American Mobile and RIM, the two have been able to strategize, over a secure network, when other solutions might have left them out of touch. As Gallinot explained, "One day, the chief and I exchanged information on a breaking case while he was away in 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 and I was at my son's baseball game Noun 1. baseball game - a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League in Santa Monica. Messaging from device to device takes just a few seconds. It has become an essential mode of communications for us." "Analysts predict a strong future for two-way messaging, but I can attest to the strength of two-way messaging today," concluded Purnell. "Two-way messaging delivers a business advantage useful to an array of customers, and because nationwide two-way coverage is a given with our network, American Mobile can concentrate its efforts on adding value to each and every solution." About American Mobile American Mobile (www.AmMobile.com) owns and operates an integrated terrestrial/satellite network and provides a wide range of mobile communication services, including digital voice dispatch, data communications, dual-mode mobile messaging, position reporting services, and satellite telephone to the continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and hundreds of miles of U.S. coastal waters. American Mobile services are used in the transportation, field service, maritime, two-way messaging and telemetry telemetry Highly automated communications process by which data are collected from instruments located at remote or inaccessible points and transmitted to receiving equipment for measurement, monitoring, display, and recording. markets. The company's major shareholders include Hughes Communications Inc., Motorola, Inc., Singapore Telecom, and AT&T Wireless Services. Factors that could cause forward-looking statements in this news release to differ materially from actual results are discussed in American Mobile Satellite Corporation's Form 10K for the year ended December 31, 1997 and other periodic filings the company has made with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Copies of the filings are available upon request from American Mobile Satellite Corporation's investor relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. department. ARDIS is a registered servicemark of American Mobile. (c)1998 All rights reserved. |
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