Wednesday December 3, 4:03 pm Eastern Time
Company Press Release
SOURCE: Glenayre Technologies Inc.
Conxus Introduces Pocketalk(TM) With Glenayre NPCS Voice Messaging
System
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Dec. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Glenayre Technologies (Nasdaq: GEMS - news) today announced the successful launch of its narrowband PCS voice messaging system for the introduction of CONXUS's Pocketalk voice messaging service in the Washington, DC-Baltimore metropolitan area.
The Nov. 14 launch in the Washington area, together with a concurrent launch in Miami, are the first commercial launches of CONXUS's Pocketalk service. Marketed as a pocket answering machine, Pocketalk delivers digital voice messages in the caller's own voice and offers subscribers guaranteed delivery of messages.
''We share CONXUS's confidence and excitement regarding Pocketalk,'' said Jim Marion, president of Glenayre's Wireless Messaging Group. ''And we've had great satisfaction in working with CONXUS to design and build a network that meets the highest performance standards.''
''We've relied on Glenayre's continuous support throughout the launch and we're very excited about the system's capabilities and performance,'' said Bill deKay, president of CONXUS.
Supported entirely by Glenayre's InFLEXion voice messaging system, CONXUS's Washington area network consists of the GL3000 Wireless Messaging Switch (utilizing Glenayre's WMtp protocol), GL3100 RF Director, GL-C9000 base station controller, GL-T9501 linear transmitter, GL-R9000 receiver and the GL- N9000 OMC (Operation and Maintenance Center). WMtp is a networking protocol that allows operators to connect multiple switches together to provide seamless
nationwide roaming. With WMtp, other paging carriers and resellers can network directly into the CONXUS system to upgrade their customers to voice services while retaining their current pager telephone number.
The dual mode capability of Glenayre's NPCS architecture represents an industry first by supporting both InFLEXion voice messaging and ReFLEX_ data messaging.
CONXUS Communications Inc., with headquarters located in Greenville, S.C., is developing a nationwide narrowband PCS network based on Motorola's InFLEXion technology. The company is launching its first service, Pocketalk pocket answering machine, in 1997, followed by Pocketext . . . e-mail in your pocket. For more information about Pocketalk, visit the CONXUS Website at www.pocketalk.com.
Glenayre Technologies Inc. is a worldwide provider of telecommunications infrastructure products and systems serving the
paging, cellular, PCS, telco, voice processing, and point-to-point wireless service provider markets. Glenayre's net sales exceeded $390 million in 1996 and the company employs approximately 2,100 people worldwide.
Pocketalk is a trademark of CONXUS Communications Inc. GLENAYRE is a registered trademark of Glenayre Electronics Inc.
WMtp is Glenayre's wireless messaging transfer protocol
InFLEXion and ReFLEX are Motorola's high speed paging protocols, and are trademarks of Motorola Corporation
SOURCE: Glenayre Technologies Inc. |
