Hi Jim,
Geeze it's quiet. Everyone listening to Greenspam? They're calling him the "Economic Emperor".
These guys are pink, supposedly working on their financials, ya right, but have an impact next week.
Si thread is dead and of course RB is as comical as ever. Was wondering if anyone from San Diego is or could check this out.
Thanks
Ron
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ARC System Wireless Communications Airborne Payload Demonstration March
5th and 6th, 2001
LOS ANGELES, Feb 15, 2001 (Canada NewsWire via COMTEX) -- Platforms Wireless International
Corporation (OTC: PLFM ), the developer of the revolutionary Airborne Relay Communications "ARC
System" for wireless voice and data communications, announced today its ARC System Wireless
Communications Airborne Payload is on-track for its Premiere U.S.A. Demonstration on March 5th
and 6th, 2001.
The ARC System Wireless Communications Airborne Payload demonstration is scheduled to take
place at Composite Optics'Anechoic Chamber Facility in San Diego, California. This landmark
demonstration is the first time the Wireless Communications "Production-Ready" Airborne Payload
for Mass Cellular Communications has ever been demonstrated.
William C. Martin, Platforms Chairman and CEO stated: "We are pleased and very proud to
announce that the ARC System Wireless Communications Airborne Payload demonstration will
take place in San Diego, as scheduled. This landmark demonstration marks the culmination of
almost five years of endeavor dedicated to the development of a product we believe has the potential
of becoming a new industry standard for the efficient delivery of cost-effective wireless
communications services around the world.
"It is fitting," Mr. Martin explained, "that this ARC System Payload demonstration should take
place in San Diego, California, where the initial ALPHA 'Proof of Concept' System demonstration
took place in May 1998. The ALPHA demonstration proved the viability of the ARC System airborne
wireless communications platform, and many, including Aviation Week and Space Technology
magazine, hailed the demonstration as a harbinger of the future of wireless communications
technology.
"Now, almost three years later, the experimental ARC System airborne wireless communications
prototype model that made its maiden flight strapped to the back seat of a single-engine airplane,
has become a 1,250 lbs., state-of-the-art airborne wireless communications platform, ready to go to
work, delivering efficient, cost-effective wireless communications services to the emerging,
under-served nations of the world. The first commercial prototype of the System will operate 15,000
feet above sea level, aboard a 50-meter aerostructure."
Information on the ARC System Airborne Payload Demonstration Event scheduled to take place at
the Composite Optics Signature Technology and Test Range in San Diego, California, is as follows:
Event Dates: March 5th and 6th, 2001 Time: 9:30 AM PST - 4:00PM PST Location: Composite
Optics Signature Technology & Test Range Address: 16707 Via del Campo Court, San Diego,
California 92127 COI Telephone: (858) 592-2509 Security: COI is a strategic U.S. Government
contractor. All facilities are secured, and attendance at this event is by invitation ONLY. RSVP is
required for admission. A picture ID will be required for registration and issuance of a special event
COI visitor badge. Visitor badges must be worn at all times while in the facility. No pagers, cell
phones, recording devices, photo cameras, or video cameras will be permitted in the secured
facility. Event Forums: There will be three Event Forums: (i) Auditorium Tent - A: mock-up model of
the ARC System Payload will be available for inspection and discussion. (ii) Auditorium Tent - B:
reserved for management and press. (iii) Anechoic Test Chamber: secured facility and main
auditorium for ARC System Payload demonstration. Escorted tours to presentations, video and
multimedia shows, and Payload demonstration theater. Event Coordinators: Event Invitations
FOCUS Partners LLC - Event Invitations; RSVP; Passes; Brad Meyer/Harvey Goralnick; (212)
752-9445 Media/Press McKie & Headstrom Chris McKie; (408) 942-0133 ARC System Airborne
Wireless Communications Payload Demonstration 9:30 - 10:00 AM Registration and Badge
Issuance - Auditorium Tent - A 10:00 - 10:30 AM Welcome and Introduction - Audit. -A: William
Martin, PLFM Chairman & CEO 10:30 - 11:00 AM The ARC System - Main Auditorium Robert D.
Perry, President 11:00 - 11:30 AM ARC System Payload - Main Auditorium Francois Draper E.V.
P., COO & CTO 11:30 - 12:00 PM ARC System Aerostat - Main Auditorium Francois Draper 12:00
- 12:30 PM Lunch Intermission - Auditorium Tent -A 12:30 - 1:00 PM COI - Host/Strategic Partner -
Main Auditorium Mark Bonebright, COI Gen.Mgr. 1:00 - 4:00 PM ARC Payload Demonstrations -
Main Auditorium Francois Draper 2:00 - 4:00 PM Question & Answer Period - Auditorium Tent-A
Mr. Francois Draper, Platforms Executive Vice President, COO and CTO concluded: "The
ARC System Airborne Payload we'll be demonstrating in San Diego is one of the most
advanced and efficient wireless communications systems I have seen in my thirty years in the
industry. We believe the ARC System is cost-effective, rapidly deployable, modularly
scaleable, relocateable, re-usable, and it will deliver better cost/performance and ROI than
most terrestrial cellular systems ... at approximately half the cost and twice the profitability."
The ARC System Airborne Wireless Communications Payload scheduled to take place in San
Diego will be the first time the ARC System's commercial Production Payload capabilities will
be displayed and demonstrated to the public, members of the industry, and the press, before
the System is shipped for its international wireless industry demonstration premiere in Brazil.
About Composite Optics, Inc.
Composite Optics is a world leader in the design, engineering, manufacturing and testing of
advanced composite products for the space and aerospace markets. Based in San Diego,
California, COI is an employee-owned business with more than 300 associates. The Company
was named by the U.S. Small Business Administration as the 1999 National Small Business
Subcontractor of the Year. COI has more than 25 years of space flight technology experience,
successfully providing innovative composite-material products and services to leading
aerospace manufacturers around the world. COI's extensive corporate capabilities span a wide
array of complementary technology disciplines and products, including designing, testing, and
manufacturing strategic system payloads, antennas, structures, precision structures, and optics.
COI can be found on the Web, at: www.coi-world.com .
About Platforms Wireless International Corporation
Platforms Wireless International Corporation, headquartered in Los Angeles, California, is the
developer and marketer of the revolutionary wireless communications technology known as the
Airborne Relay Communications "ARC" System, and its family of Airborne, LTA host
infrastructures, the ZeroGravity AeroStructures(R). Management believes that these significant
advances in the field of Airborne wireless communications technology, together with continuing
technology improvements and new developments, will provide an efficient, cost-effective,
all-broadband, voice and data communications alternative for augmenting, replacing, and
supplementing terrestrial wireline and cellular telecommunications infrastructures, as well as high
and low-earth orbiting satellites -- at a savings in both cost and deployment time, as compared
to conventional systems. Platforms has already announced its first ARC System Conditional
Contract with AMERICEL, S.A., one of the leading cellular telecommunications service
providers in Brazil. Platforms can be found on the Web, at: www.plfm.net .
Safe Harbor Act Disclaimer
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS -- The statements contained in this Press Release,
which are not a recitation of historical facts, are "forward-looking statements," within the
meaning of Rule 175 under the Securities Act of 1933, and Rule 3b-6 under the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, and as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995,
and such statements qualify for the Safe Harbor protection afforded under such Acts.
Forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking words, such as
"believes," "expects," "may," "will," "should," "anticipates," or the negative thereof, or other
variations thereof, or comparable words, or by statements related to future plans, strategies, or
other business development activities that involve risks and uncertainties. Management cautions
the reader that "forward-looking statements" including, without limitation, statements regarding
Platforms technology, products, marketing plans and strategies, markets for its products and
services, and expected, projected results of operations, are all predictions, expectations, and
anticipations. No assurances can be given that such predictions, expectations, and anticipations
will prove accurate and correct, or that anticipated, projected future results will be achieved.
Numerous risk factors can cause actual results to vary materially from the future results
indicated, expressed, or implied in forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties
include, but are not limited to Platforms' ability to successfully market its products and services
to new customers; the Company's ability to obtain necessary financing to support corporate
operations and finance the acquisition of test equipment and systems; the Company's ability to
obtain required permits, licenses, and authorizations in a timely manner; the Company's
performance of a successful ARC System Demonstration in Brazil; the ability of Service
Providers to successfully market ARC System wireless communications services to subscribers;
the ARC System's capability to cost-effectively and profitably penetrate higher-cost, rural area
markets; and the unknown impact of probable entry into the market by larger, better capitalized
competitors. Therefore, there can be no assurance that the information indicated, expressed, or
implied in the forward-looking statements contained in this Press Release will prove to be
accurate or correct, and future events and actual results could differ materially from those
indicated, expressed, or implied in these forward-looking statements.
/Web site: platforms-intl.com
coi-world.com
CONTACT: For further information: Investors, Brad Meyer or Harvey Goralnick,
212-752-9445, plfm(at)focuspartners.com, both of FOCUS Partners LLC; or Media, Chris
McKie of McKie/Headstrom Communications, 408-942-0133, chris_mckie(at)mhpr.com, all
for Platforms Wireless International News release via Canada NewsWire, Toronto
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