Logica Increases Its TDMA Mobile Solutions Leadership With Four New Contracts; TDMA Wireless Carriers Select Logica For Its Worldwide SMS Leadership.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 30, 2000 Logica today announced a raft new contracts with four TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) A satellite and cellular phone technology that interleaves multiple digital signals onto a single high-speed channel. For cellular, TDMA triples the capacity of the original analog method (FDMA). wireless carriers for the company's world leading Telepath tel·e·path n. One who communicates by telepathy. Short Messaging See SMS. Service Center (SMSC SMSC Short Message Service Center SMSC Standard Microsystems Corporation (New York) SMSC Spiritual Moral Social Cultural (education) SMSC Stephenville Medical and Surgical Clinic ) and its Over-the-Air Activation platform (OTA (Over The Air) Refers to any wireless system such as AM/FM radio and network television that uses open space as its transmission medium. ) to provide enhanced wireless features for their subscribers. Dobson Cellular Dobson Cellular Systems, Inc., is a wireless telecommunications provider in several regions of the United States, including Alaska, Arizona, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia and , Midwest Wireless Midwest Wireless was a wireless telephone company serving southern Minnesota, northern Iowa and western Wisconsin in the United States. The company served roughly 400,000 customers and used CDMA phone technology. The company's slogan was "We answer to you. , Cellular South and Centennial Wireless Centennial Wireless is a regional wireless telecommunications provider that operates a GSM network in the Midwest states of Michigan, Ohio and Indiana as well as the Southeastern states of Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. selected Logica's mobile networking solutions for its worldwide SMS (1) (Storage Management System) Software used to routinely back up and archive files. See HSM. (2) (Systems Management Server) Systems management software from Microsoft that runs on Windows NT Server. market leadership, stability and proven TDMA deployment expertise. "Logica was one of the very first providers to deploy SMS in the TDMA market. That success and the continued support from current customers has enabled Logica to become the vendor of choice for mobile software solutions among TDMA carriers," said Phil O'Neill, general manager and executive vice president, Logica, Mobile Networks. "Logica's OTA and Telepath SMSC will enable these four carriers to take part in the wireless data craze that is taking hold in the U.S. As the carriers continue to look for other wireless data opportunities, the platforms will migrate to offer features such as interworking (standard) interworking - Systems or components, possibly from different origins, working together to perform some task. Interworking depends crucially on standards to define the interfaces between the components. SMS between carrier networks and SMS to interface with email." Centennial Wireless is the latest carrier to select Logica for both its OTA and SMS solutions. A key driving factor for offering SMS features to customers is the anticipated demand from their customers noted Phil Mayberry, president, domestic operations, Centennial Wireless. An important market segment for SMS is the business customer. "Having access to information via their wireless phone provides a competitive edge for our business customers," Mayberry continued. "Wireless access to information improves response time to their customers and provides immediate information to their employees--wherever they may be. Just as with any wireless customer, Centennial Wireless customers benefit from the ability to stay connected to friends and family members. SMS provides another feature for these customers to stay connected and to save time." Under the new agreement with Logica, Dobson Cellular Systems added the OTA platform to its Logica product portfolio. The carrier acquired Logica's Telepath SMSC when it purchased Sygnet Communications two years ago. A year later in 1999, Dobson selected Logica's email gateway to allow subscribers to send a short message from a mobile phone to a recipient's email. The OTA functionality will streamline its new subscriber activation process, eliminate manual activation errors and provide additional revenue opportunities. Cellular South, also a current Logica customer with OTA deployment since last year, added Logica's Telepath SMSC capability to its current portfolio. The SMS capability will enable Cellular South to provide its subscribers with short messaging capabilities. The Telepath SMSC provides a transparent migration path to its email gateway and Interworking SMS Gateway to support short message delivery outside of a carrier's native network and enable SMS with other carriers. Midwest Wireless recently added the OTA platform after selecting the Telepath SMSC. The OTA system will allow Midwest Wireless to activate new customers' wireless service more efficiently and accurately, while making it easier to change the programming of existing customers' handsets when the need arises. The system also makes it possible to make global changes to company's Intelligent Roaming Data Bases, resulting in significant home roamer savings for Midwest Wireless For more information about Logica's mobile network solutions which includes prepaid, network planning, two-way international roaming, wireless data functionality through 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. and cHTML gateways, please visit the website at www.logica.com/telecoms. ABOUT LOGICA Logica is a leading global solutions company providing IT consultancy, systems integration, products, services and support. Logica's clients operate across diverse markets including telecoms, financial services, energy and utilities, industry, distribution and transport and the public sector. Founded in 1969, Logica has over 8,200 staff in 24 countries worldwide and is listed on the London Stock Exchange London Stock Exchange London marketplace for securities. It was formed in 1773 by a group of stockbrokers who had been doing business informally in local coffeehouses. where it is part of the FTSE FTSE A company that specializes in index calculation. Although not part of a stock exchange, co-owners include the London Stock Exchange and the Financial Times. Notes: The FTSE is similar to Standard & Poor's in the United States. 100 index of the largest UK listed companies. Logica's North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. headquarters are based in Lexington, Massachusetts with additional offices in Dallas, Denver, Detroit, 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 , Houston, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Fort Lauderdale and Toronto. Logica is the world's leading provider of messaging infrastructure products, intelligent network solutions, such as pre-paid, inter-network mobility solutions and radio network planning tools to over 150 digital cellular, 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. and satellite network operators. Logica's telecom offerings can be found at http://www.logica.com/telecoms ABOUT CENTENNIAL WIRELESS Centennial is one of the largest independent wireless telecommunications service providers in the United States and the Caribbean with approximately 18.7 million Net Pops and over 664,000 wireless subscribers. Centennial's Domestic Operations have approximately 6.3 million Net Pops in small cities and rural areas. Centennial's Caribbean integrated communications operation owns and operates wireless licenses for 11.4 million Net Pops in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and provides voice, data and Internet services on wireline networks in the region. Centennial also holds minority shares representing approximately 910,000 Net Pops in U.S. cellular operations controlled and managed by other operators. Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe and an affiliate of the Blackstone Group are controlling shareholders of Centennial. For more information regarding Centennial, please visit our website at www.centennnialcom.com. ABOUT DOBSON CELLULAR Dobson Cellular Systems, a subsidiary of Dobson Communications Corporation (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 :DCEL DCEL Doubly-Connected Edge List DCEL Direct Current Electro-Luminescent ) is a leading provider of cellular phone services to rural markets in the United States. Headquartered in Oklahoma City, the rapidly growing Company owns or manages wireless operations in 18 states. For additional information on the Company and its operations, please visit its web site at www.dobson.net. ABOUT CELLULAR SOUTH Cellular South, a leading and award-winning provider of wireless service, is licensed to provide wireless service in five southeastern states including Mississippi, Mobile, Alabama and surrounding areas, and the Florida Panhandle. Headquartered in Jackson, Mississippi, the company recently received the President's Safety Award from the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association See TIA. (body, standard) Telecommunications Industry Association - (TIA) An association that sets standards for communications cabling. Cables that TIA set standards for include: EIA/TIA-568A and EIA/TIA-568B category three, four and five cable. (CTIA (1) See CompTIA. (2) (Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association, Washington, DC, www.ctia.org, www.wow-com.com) A membership organization founded in 1984 that is involved with regulatory and public affairs issues in the wireless industry. ) for demonstrating leadership in wireless safety education initiatives. In addition, Cellular South was named the sole recipient of the 1999 Blue Chip Enterprise Award for Mississippi and was the first Mississippi telecommunications company to receive the Mississippi Quality Award for Excellence. For more information visit Cellular South's Web site, www.cellularsouth.com. ABOUT MIDWEST WIRELESS Midwest Wireless is a leading wireless services provider, operating in 68 counties of Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin. From the establishment of their original cellular phone service, Cellular 2000, in 1990 to the introduction of their digital phone service, ClearlyDigital, in 1998, Midwest Wireless has earned a solid reputation for being at the forefront of wireless telephone service innovation. In recent years Midwest Wireless has focused on providing leading edge services that utilize the company's strong digital service network. In 1999 Midwest Wireless was the first to bring one-way wireless phone e-mail message delivery to many areas of the Midwest. Early in 2000 Midwest Wireless became the first rural provider in the entire nation to deploy two-way e-mail messaging, making it possible for consumers to not only receive, but also send messages from their digital phone to other digital phones or any e-mail address. Midwest Wireless is currently exploring a multitude of other telecommunications services and conducting research to determine their benefits to consumers. Customer PR Contacts: Laura Hughes, Centennial Wireless, 219/760-5931; lhughes@centennialcorp.com John Fidler, for Dobson Cellular, 212/290-9540; johnfidler@alavin.com Tanya Rankin, Cellular South, 601/974-7134; trankin@cellularsouth.com Shelly John, Midwest Wireless, 507/385-2376; sjohn@midwestwireless.com |
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