Motorola's Subsidiary, InfoPower, Solo America And Metrocall Launch
Local, Regional And Nationwide Paging Combined With ESPN Sports
Information Services
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla., Dec. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Motorola's subsidiary, InfoPower(SM) combined with Solo America
of Greenville, SC and Metrocall, Inc. (Nasdaq: MCLL - news) of Alexandria, VA today announced the immediate availability
of ESPN TO GO(TM) wireless sports service nationwide. Metrocall, one of the leading US paging services will provide local,
regional and nationwide paging service for the venture and Solo America will provide all marketing support and services.
''Through our agreement with Solo America and Metrocall, the ESPN TO GO(TM) service allows customers throughout the
United States to enjoy the depth and breadth of ESPN sports coverage -- with more sports programming than the four
broadcast networks combined -- anytime, anywhere,'' said Joe Mulvey, general manager of Motorola's subsidiary, InfoPower.
''The ESPN TO GO service provides a tremendous amount of information that allows a sports fan to keep up-to-date on
virtually every sport through their pager, throughout the United States,'' said Bill West, President and CEO of Solo America.
''With this service, the pager can now be a major portable source of information and entertainment, at a very affordable
price.''
ESPN TO GO, a comprehensive sports information service, provides constant game information and score updates every five
minutes from ESPN, The Worldwide Leader in Sports. The service covers a wide variety of sports including Major League
Baseball, NFL Football, NBA Basketball, NHL Hockey and NCAA Division I Football and Basketball. The service also
offers a wide selection of statistics, trivia and ESPN's complete line-up of sports features from its staff of renowned experts.
Customers can subscribe to the new service by calling 1-800-929-ESPN. The ESPN TO GO service is priced at less than
$10 per month in addition to the purchase of a Motorola pager.
InfoPower, a wholly owned subsidiary of Motorola, is a leader in packaging and reselling high quality, frequently updated,
branded information services. The company resells these information services, including ESPN's sports information service to
the wireless industry. This is accomplished through the efficient integration of information from the leading content brands and
then filtering and formatting this data for redistribution.
Metrocall, Inc. is headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia and will serve over 4 million subscribers upon completion of its
recently approved merger with Pronet, Inc. creating the second largest paging carrier in the United States. Metrocall provides
wireless products on a local, regional and nationwide basis.
Solo America develops affinity and branded paging programs nationwide through a variety of marketing partners and is a joint
venture of both Metrocall and Brightpoint (Nasdaq: CELL) the worldwide leader in wireless product distribution.
ESPN, Inc., the worldwide leader in sports, includes the following units: ESPN, the flagship sports television network;
ESPN2, a network for today's sports fan interested in a wide range of programming--- both traditional and
emerging/participatory; ESPNEWS, a 24-hour sports news network; ESPN International, reaching more than 160 countries in
19 languages; ESPN Radio Network, delivered to more than 275 radio stations; ESPN Enterprises, operating businesses such
as pay subscription programming, electronic publishing, on-line services, home video, location-based entertainment, CD's,
interactive software, sports magazines and apparel. ESPN and Starwave Corp. also co-produce ESPNET SportsZone, the
most popular content site on the World Wide Web. ESPN, Inc. is a subsidiary of Capital Cities/ABC, Inc. which is a wholly
owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company [NYSE:DIS - news]. The Hearst Corporation has a 20 percent interest in
ESPN. SportsTicker is the 24-hour, real-time sports news and information unit of which ESPN owns and 80 percent interest
and the Dow Jones & Company, Inc. 20 percent.
SOURCE: Solo America |
