Glenayre To Equip Morocco with Its First Paging System; New Paging Network Will Serve Country's Major Cities.

CHARLOTTE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 18, 1996--Glenayre Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: GEMS) has received a contract letter of intent from the government-run telecommunications company in Morocco to provide $2.6 million worth of infrastructure equipment and installation services from Glenayre for a new paging system capable of supporting all high-speed paging protocols that now exist.

L'Office National des Postes et Telecommunications (ONPT) of Morocco purchased a GL3000 Paging Terminal, 60 C-2000 Controllers, 60 GL-T5310 125-Watt Transmitters and a GL3900 Alphanumeric Entry System.

The new paging network will initially serve 50,000 subscribers in the Moroccan cities of Rabat, Casablanca, Tangiers, Marrakech, Agadir, Tetouan, Fes and La'youne. Main highways and roadways connecting the cities will be part of the network. The system is expected to be operational in about 14 months.

ONPT intends to begin offering paging service on the standard POCSAG format, which operates at 1,200-bits-per-second (bps), and eventually provide ERMES protocol service, which operates at 6,250 bps. ERMES is the standard adopted by many countries in neighboring Europe whose subscribers will have roaming capabilities--the ability to receive pages in any country that has an ERMES-based network. Glenayre has supplied equipment for ERMES systems in France and Hungary, the first commercial systems on the continent.

Glenayre is now the only paging equipment manufacturer able to support ERMES and the other high speed paging formats -- APOC, developed by Philips Telecom, and Motorola's FLEX(TM), ReFLEX(TM), and InFLEXion(TM) protocols -- in addition to POCSAG. ERMES, APOC, FLEX and ReFLEX operate at speeds up to 6,400 bps, and InFLEXion is capable of speeds up to 112,000 bps.

"We are privileged to be selected to supply and install Morocco's first paging system," said Russ Allen, executive vice president, field sales and support operations." We look forward to a good working relationship with ONPT. This is one of many contracts Glenayre has secured recently that shows we are building a solid business base in the young and fast growing paging markets of Africa and the Middle East."

Glenayre Technologies is a worldwide provider of telecommunications equipment and related software used in the wireless personal communications service (PCS) markets, including wireless messaging, voice processing and mobile data systems. The company is included in the Nasdaq-100 Index(R). -0-

ERMES is an acronym for European Radio Messaging System. APOC is an acronym for Advanced Paging Operator Code. FLEX, InFLEXion, and ReFLEX are trademarks of Motorola, Inc. POCSAG is an acronym for Post Office Code Standardization Advisory Group. Nasdaq-100 Index is a registered trademark of the National Association of Securities Dealers.

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