Evidence of Motorola's Aggressive FLEX(tm) Licensing Strategy is Mounting With 30 Licensees; Device, Infrastructure and Test Equipment Manufacturers will Significantly Grow their Businesses Using the De Facto Standard in High- Speed Paging.

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 21, 1996--Motorola Paging Products Group (PPG) today announced that four wireless communications manufacturers, Cromack Industries, Inc., Genie Telecommunications, Inc., Standard Telecom America, Inc. and Vis'tel Communications have been granted licenses to manufacture FLEX(tm) technology-based wireless solutions. Today's announcements bring the total FLEX licensee pool up to 30 manufacturers worldwide.

Motorola is licensing its FLEX protocol to a broad range of wireless solution manufacturers to enable growth in the wireless communications industry and to generate a quality mass volume wireless products market. Motorola has made FLEX technology available to many types of manufacturers, including long-standing wireless companies such as CASIO, Ericsson, Hewlett- Packard and NEC; semiconductor manufacturers, Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) and Texas Instruments; as well as new wireless market entrants.

Wireless Devices

Standard Telecom America, Inc., based in Santa Clara, Calif., and Vis'tel Communications, headquartered in Houston, Texas, have both licensed FLEX technology to manufacture wireless messaging devices. Both companies will leverage the benefits of FLEX technology to provide devices that offer faster message retrieval and improved battery life.

Standard Telecom America specializes in the development and manufacturing of pagers and plans to use FLEX technology for their next-generation pagers. Their flagship product, Tutti, is a small, fashionable, numeric pager. With the FLEX protocol, Standard Telecom America plans to offer an upgraded FLEX version of Tutti. Sales and distribution of Standard Telecom America's FLEX pager are slated for the third quarter of 1996.

Vis'tel Communications, a manufacturer and marketer of personal communications including pagers, cellular phones and wireless computers/faxes, has licensed FLEX technology for the immediate development of economy scale alphanumeric paging products and the long-term development of cellular/page phones. Vis'tel has designed seven different units based on the FLEX protocol ranging from one-way and two-way pagers to cellular/page phones. Further details of Vis'tel's FLEX-based wireless product features and availability will be released by the company in the second quarter of 1996.

Infrastructure

Genie Telecommunications, Inc., headquartered in Taipei Hsien, Taiwan, a manufacturer of paging terminals and encoders, has licensed the FLEX protocol to produce upgraded wireless messaging infrastructure. Because the FLEX protocol is the worldwide de facto standard for high-speed paging, Genie Telecommunications has the opportunity to provide plug-and-play compatibility with other wireless messaging infrastructure equipment. Genie Telecommunications maintains representation in Latin America as well as in the Shanxi, Guangdong and Chekiang provinces of China.

Test Equipment

Cromack Industries, Inc., headquartered in Greenfield, Mass., has been a FLEX licensee since 1994. Cromack, a manufacturer of data communications equipment, has broadened its FLEX family manufacturing capabilities to develop and manufacture test equipment for two-way voice and data transmissions on the FLEX family of protocols. The FLEX family of protocols includes FLEX, ReFLEX(tm) and InFLEXion(tm). To be successful in an increasingly competitive industry, Cromack will use FLEX technology to develop multiple test equipment products. The complete FLEX family license enables Cromack to significantly grow their business and remain competitive by expanding their product portfolio to include two-way and voice testing equipment. Cromack has manufactured baseband signaling equipment since 1982 for use by paging carriers and repair depots to diagnose and repair one-way pagers.

The FLEX protocol is the de facto industry standard for high-speed paging, which has been adopted by 70 percent of the world's largest paging markets. Motorola is aggressively seeking to increase the breadth of licensees as a part of its strategy to expand the advanced wireless messaging market. Major operators in the United States, Canada, Latin America and Asia have adopted FLEX high-speed paging technology. Both China and Japan have adopted FLEX technology as their national paging standard.

Motorola is one of the world's leading providers of wireless communications, semiconductors, and advanced electronic systems, components and services. Major equipment businesses include paging and data communications, cellular telephone, two-way radio, personal communications, automotive, defense and space electronics and computers. Motorola semiconductors power communication devices, computers and millions of other products. Motorola's 1995 sales were $27 billion. -0-

Vendor contacts: Cromack Industries, Inc.

Gary T. Cromack

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http://www.cromack.com/

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Standard Telecom America, Inc.

Kelly Schoen/Ike Kim

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Genie Communications, Inc.

Shirley Lu

(886) 2-913-7015

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Vis'tel Communications

Jim Carlson

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Motorola, FLEX, ReFLEX and InFLEXion are trademarks or registered trademarks of Motorola, Inc.

CONTACT: Loren Guertin/Pam Erickson

Cunningham Communication, Inc.

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