Data on Air Caps Management Buyout With New Customer Announcement.Business Editors & High Tech Writers ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 5, 2001 After Completing a Management Buyout Management buyout (MBO) Leveraged buyout whereby the acquiring group is led by the firm's management. management buyout See going private. , the Newly Independent Data On Air, Inc. Continues to Expand Its Hosted WAP Gateway (Wireless Application Protocol gateway) Software that decodes and encodes requests and responses between the smartphone microbrowsers and the Internet. It decodes the encoded WAP requests from the microbrowser and sends the HTTP requests to the Internet or to a local Services Data on Air announced today both the completion of a management buyout, and the addition of another wireless carrier customer, Tricom S.A. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :TDR TDR - time domain reflectometer ) in the Dominican Republic Dominican Republic (dəmĭn`ĭkən), republic (2005 est. pop. 8,950,000), 18,700 sq mi (48,442 sq km), West Indies, on the eastern two thirds of the island of Hispaniola. The capital and largest city is Santo Domingo. . Tricom represents the eleventh wireless carrier that Data on Air serves with its Mobile Internet Refers to gaining access to the Internet using a lightweight, handheld device. See Mobile IP, PDA, smartphone and mobile TV. Back Office product suite. The management buyout was led by Bill Poellmitz, president, and Dean Fresonke, chief technology officer. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. "Market focus, followed by impeccable execution, is an absolute requirement in serving the wireless industry today," said Fresonke. "As a standalone entity, Data on Air brings outstanding expertise and capability in wireless Internet services to the carrier market. We are thrilled that Tricom is now launching their WAP (1) (Wireless Access Point) See access point. (2) (Wireless Application Protocol) A standard for providing cellular phones, pagers and other handheld devices with secure access to e-mail and text-based Web pages. services using our Mobile Internet Back Office products and services." "We are proud of our heritage," added Poellmitz, "and enthusiastic about building on the reputation and market momentum we have gained over the past five years. We believe that our turnkey approach to WAP services and speed-to-market provides our customers with an extraordinary competitive advantage." The Tricom customer announcement confirms Data on Air's position as the leading Application Service Provider (ASP) for the Openwave(TM) Mobile Access Gateway and associated mobile Internet services for wireless carriers in the Americas. "Tricom will be bringing to market a unique WAP service offering which provides content from our banking partners and other business affiliations throughout the country," stated Osvaldo Flores Flores, town, Guatemala Flores (flōrəs), town (1990 est. pop. 2,200), capital of Petén department, N Guatemala. Flores was built on an island in the southern part of Lake Petén Itzá and on the site of the , vice president of business planning for Tricom. "Data on Air has made it easy for us to concentrate on what we do well." Within the Mobile Internet Back Office suite, Tricom will be using Data on Air's ASP implementation of the Openwave(TM) Mobile Access Gateway by Openwave Systems Inc., to provide WAP services to Tricom's subscribers. Data on Air is the leading hosted service provider for the Openwave Mobile Access Gateway A WAP gateway from Openwave that serves as the interface between a Web server and the microbrowser in the client. Formerly known as UP.Link Server, it hosts the wireless carrier's WAP applications and performs translations between HTML, HDML and WML coming from the Web. in the Americas. "In March of this year Openwave announced an agreement allowing the Orlando-based company to become a reseller licensed to host our Mobile Access Gateway for North and South America South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . We look forward to continuing our relationship with the Data on Air management team in promoting WAP services throughout the Americas," stated Brett Caine, vice president of worldwide partners and channels for Openwave. Data on Air will continue to operate from its headquarters in Orlando, Florida The city of Orlando is a major city in central Florida and is the county seat of Orange County, Florida. According to the 2000 census, the city population was 185,951. A 2006 U.S. , home of the company's state-of-the-art data center that underpins the Mobile Internet Back Office. The company's data center handles all "back room" operations on behalf of wireless operators. Openwave Mobile Access Gateways, provisioning, content redirection, and value-added applications all are handled in a turnkey fashion at the center. The Data on Air facility features the latest in networking, computing, support, monitoring and backup capabilities. The company also has sales offices in Boston and Miami. About the Mobile Internet Back Office Data on Air's value proposition is aimed at wireless carriers who need to maximize flexibility and speed to market while minimizing the risk of technology obsolescence ob·so·les·cent adj. 1. Being in the process of passing out of use or usefulness; becoming obsolete. 2. Biology Gradually disappearing; imperfectly or only slightly developed. . To accomplish this, Data on Air offers all the prerequisite hardware and software for a mobile Internet offering up and running in a state-of-the-art data center. Carriers taking advantage of the Mobile Internet Back Office connect their switching centers to the Data on Air data center and Data on Air manages all the necessary routing, traffic and applications. Applications are an important part of the Mobile Internet Back Office. Recently, the company released Version released version - release 2.0 of its popular MenuServer portal configuration tool, allowing mobile phone users to personalize their individual handset "home decks." Carriers are using MenuServer as wireless portal to bundle WAP sites aimed at a specific vertical market segments and also to allow individual subscribers the ability to customize the WAP sites they see on their phones. About Data on Air Since 1995, Data on Air has been helping wireless carriers deliver end-to-end, advanced wireless data solutions to their subscribers. As the "power behind the wireless Internet," the company offers a high-availability gateway hosting environment for wireless carriers and corporate enterprises. Data on Air has provided services to nearly every major wireless carrier in North America, and currently provides hosted WAP services to wireless operators in Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Data on Air is a Founding Member of the WAP Developer Group of the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) Forum. Openwave and the Openwave Mobile Access Gateway are trademarks of Openwave Systems Inc. |
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