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SOURCE: mobeo, Inc.
mobeo Announces Strategic Airtime Agreement With Metrocall For Enhanced mobeo Services
Advanced Network to Support New mobeo Advanced Graphics Pager
BETHESDA, Md., June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- mobeo, Inc., America's leading provider of real-time financial information for traders via wireless devices, today announced a strategic air-time agreement with Metrocall, Inc. (NYSE: MCLL - news), one of the nation's largest messaging companies. Under the agreement, mobeo will utilize Metrocall's nationwide wireless network for distributing critical financial news(1) and price quotes(1) on Motorola's large screen graphics pager, the CP1250.
The agreement also calls for mobeo to work with Metrocall to develop enhanced technology applications for Metrocall's two-way paging network service offerings.
''Current mobeo customers will see immediate benefits, including the eight- line Motorola CP1250 graphic screen receiver with increased content, charts and other advanced features,'' said mobeo's Edward Spear, Senior Vice President. ''Our customers count on us for cutting edge services, and this agreement will help us to continue to offer capabilities they can't find anywhere else.''
''The CP1250 pager was designed specifically for these types of content- rich applications,'' said Amy Kabcenell, Director, Distribution Marketing, PCS Americas Paging Operations at Motorola. ''The large graphics screen and its expanded memory can provide end-users with a powerful belt-worn communications tool which enhances the mobeo solution.''
''As a leader in the paging and wireless messaging industry, Metrocall is ideally positioned to introduce mobeo's in-depth financial data to customers,'' said Steven D. Jacoby, Metrocall's Chief Operating Officer. ''With mobeo, we have found an answer for customers who are looking for up-to-the-minute information on the bond market as well as security quotations.''
mobeo provides 24-hour wireless broadcast of critical financial information, including real-time pricing and news, from BRIDGE and Telerate, to thousands of corporate and individual traders throughout the U.S. in Foreign Exchange, Treasury, Futures and Commodities, including precious and base metals, and energy. mobeo also provides instant two-way access to price quotes for stocks, options and futures trading.
About mobeo
mobeo, Inc., is considered the premier provider of wireless, portable, real-time financial information in North America, delivering real-time quotes on over 150,000 stocks, options, futures, treasury, foreign exchange and other critical market data content to thousands of financial customers. Since March, 1990, mobeo has been providing wireless access to global and US financial market data to the largest banks and financial institutions, hedge fund and money managers as well as individual investors and traders. mobeo is a provider of global financial information as well as a leader in wireless technology development. mobeo is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, and has sales offices in New York and Chicago.
For more information about mobeo and its products:
Visit: www.mobeo.com
Call: 800-328-0870
Write: mobeo, Inc.
7700 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 420
Bethesda, MD 20814
About Metrocall
Metrocall, Inc. (Nasdaq: MCLL - news), headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, is one of the leading paging and wireless messaging companies in the United States, serving more than 5.7 million subscribers through its Nationwide Wireless Network. For more information on Metrocall please visit www.metrocall.com or AOL Keyword: Metrocall.
About Motorola
Motorola (NYSE: MOT - news) is a global leader in providing integrated communications solutions and embedded electronic solutions. These include:
* Software-enhanced wireless telephone, two-way radio, messaging and
satellite communications products and systems, as well as networking and
Internet-access products, for consumers, network operators, and
commercial, government and industrial customers.
* Embedded semiconductor solutions for customers in the consumer,
networking and computing, transportation, and wireless communications
markets.
* Embedded electronic systems for automotive, communications, imaging,
manufacturing systems, computer and consumer markets.
Sales in 1998 were $29.4 billion.
Note: All trademarks and registered trademarks are proprietary to their respective manufacturers. (1) Network and subscription dependent feature. Not available in all areas.
SOURCE: mobeo, Inc.
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