Company Press Release
SOURCE: eQ-COM
eQ-COM (QCOM) Signs Data Services Agreement With Vodafone Airtouch
- Vodafone Airtouch to Provide Pan-European Wireless Data Services to eQ-COM's Fleet Management Products -
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- eQ-COM, a newly formed European unit of U.S.-based QUALCOMM Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM -
news), today announced that it has signed an agreement with Vodafone Airtouch to provide Pan-European data services for the Company's mobile fleet
management system. eQ-COM will provide wireless communications-based fleet management solutions to the European freight transport industry and other
transportation-based industries. Debuting its products and services at the European Road Transport Show in Amsterdam, the newly created eQ-COM will launch
commercial operations in four countries -- United Kingdom, Netherlands, Germany and Italy -- in Spring 2000.
Under terms of the agreement between eQ-COM and Vodafone Airtouch, Vodafone Airtouch will provide Pan-European data services to eQ-COM through its
own network in the UK and its affiliate network operators throughout Europe. Provision of data services across Europe will be phased in accordance with
eQ-COM's fleet management service roll-out plan. While the initial eQ-COM product and service will utilize GSM SMS, it is envisioned that future offerings
could take advantage of upcoming wireless data services that provide greater capabilities at lower costs.
``We selected Vodafone Airtouch as our supplier of data services for its unique ability to offer service through its large number of affiliates across the European
continent,' stated Phil White, president of QUALCOMM Wireless Business Solutions.
``Geographic reach and scale are now more and more important for the delivery of new products and services serving the mobile customer across a range of
different markets,' said Chris Gent, chief executive of Vodafone AirTouch Plc. ``We are delighted to join together, once again, with the QUALCOMM team
with whom we have dealt, in different areas, for a number of years.' |
