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Metrocall Pagers & Services Now Being Sold In More Than 600 AT&T Wireless Stores
200+ Additional Retail Outlets Added To-Date in 1999
ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Metrocall, Inc. (Nasdaq: MCLL - news) today announced that it has completed the second phase introduction of Metrocall paging products and services to an additional 233 AT&T Wireless stores and kiosks in fifteen states and the District of Columbia. This brings the total number of AT&T outlets now marketing Metrocall products and services to 619. The first phase of the roll-out program included 386 AT&T Wireless stores and kiosks which have been selling Metrocall paging and wireless messaging devices since the fourth quarter of 1998.
The phase two roll-out included additional AT&T stores and kiosks in Arizona (10), Florida (31), Georgia (8), Illinois (18), Louisiana (8), Maryland (3), Massachusetts (1), New Jersey (5), New York (10), North Carolina (5), Ohio (42), Pennsylvania (79), Rhode Island (1), Virginia (2), Washington, DC (5), and West Virginia (5).
''We are very pleased with the progress of our phase two store roll-out effort and our sales agent training programs,'' stated Michael T. Scanlon, Jr., Metrocall's senior vice president for marketing and communications. ''We continue to work with AT&T's talented direct retail staff to ensure that our packaging, product mix, programs and promotions are a hand-and-glove fit with AT&T's marketing and merchandising goals,'' Scanlon added.
Metrocall and AT&T signed an exclusive retail distribution agreement in October of 1998 wherein only Metrocall pagers, wireless messaging devices and services are sold at AT&T retail outlets.
Metrocall, headquartered in Alexandria, VA, is one of the nation's leading paging and wireless messaging companies serving more than 5.7 million subscribers through its Nationwide Wireless Network. For more information please visit Metrocall's Internet Web site at www.metrocall.com or AOL Keyword: Metrocall. |
