Your not missing anything. Here's a release from Wed. You should check out their website. These guys really have it together. They're never going to be in danger in losing clients, as they actually create sales for the companies that use them. I imagine they get a commission for sales, therefor involvement with Info now, by a company, creates income, not expense. It's a great angle.
www.infonow.com.
Russ
Wednesday February 3, 8:10 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
SignalSoft Corp. to Conduct Live
Demonstration of New Location-Based
Information Service During CTIA
Wireless '99 Conference
Demonstration to Run on PrimeCo's Network; Also Using Technology from
Lucent Technologies, GTE TSI and InfoNow Corp.
BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 3, 1999-- SignalSoft Corp, a leading international
software developer of Wireless Location Services(TM), announced today that it will team up with
several wireless telecommunications companies to conduct a live demonstration of local.info(TM), a
new location-based information service, during the upcoming CTIA Wireless '99 Conference in New
Orleans.
The demonstration is a joint effort, utilizing technology from five companies: SignalSoft's location-based
software, the New Orleans CDMA network of PrimeCo Personal Communications, Lucent
Technologies' Mobile Switching Center, GTE TSI's intelligent network service bureau and InfoNow
Corp.'s localized content and voice processing system. The CTIA demonstration will show how
location-based services can deliver personalized lifestyle, business and entertainment information to
wireless subscribers. Using PrimeCo wireless phones, the information will be delivered based on a
caller's location and specific request. During the conference, CTIA attendees using the PrimeCo
network will be able to experience the service by dialing (STAR)-FIND to easily access localized
information about the nearest restaurants, clubs, attractions and ATMs in the New Orleans area.
The five companies will host a press event featuring local.info during CTIA on Tuesday, February 9th
at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, Conference Room No. 1 -- Room 252. The
schedule includes management presentations, a live demonstration and question-and-answer session.
In addition, there will be ongoing demonstrations of this exciting new location-based information service
at Lucent Technologies' booth (No. 3247) and at the GTE booth (No. 4815).
SignalSoft's local.info, one of several products in its suite of Wireless Location Services, is supported
by the Company's recently introduced local.info Content Alliance. The local.info Content Alliance
combines SignalSoft's location-based software with a range of localized information provided by the
Alliance members. These pre-packaged services allow cellular and PCS network operators to easily
deploy location-based services in their network and to quickly offer a variety of services to their
subscribers. GTE TSI's INPosition(SM) service, which uses SignalSoft's local.info product, is
commercially available as a service bureau application. Local.info is also commercially available
through SignalSoft's other channel partners.
''CTIA attendees will be able to experience first-hand how SignalSoft's local.info, combined with the
local.info Content Alliance and technology from the participating companies, turns their existing phone
into an extremely efficient way to access localized information, including Internet content. This shows
how complex technology can be simplified to provide exciting new services for consumers. During
CTIA, attendees can just dial (STAR)-FIND to try out the service,'' said David Hose, SignalSoft
president.
Tom Welsh, director of new products at PrimeCo, stated: ''PrimeCo is interested in offering more
enhanced services to our customers. We are pleased to demonstrate this exciting new location-based
product from SignalSoft in front of the worldwide wireless audience attending CTIA.''
''We applaud SignalSoft's ability to provide cdmaOne(TM) carriers with a location-based information
service that offers wireless subscribers easy access to real-time information from the Internet,'' said
Perry LaForge, executive director of the CDMA Development Group.
''SignalSoft has clearly developed a revenue-generating and service differentiation solution for carriers
that capitalizes on cdmaOne technology's superior wireless data capabilities. We look forward to the
continued evolution of location services based on cdmaOne,'' concluded LaForge.
''We are very excited to be part of this unique demonstration as well,'' said Paul Wilcock, assistant vice
president-marketing for GTE TSI. ''Our INPosition service, which uses this innovative product from
SignalSoft, demonstrates how GTE TSI can help wireless network operators quickly deploy
location-based services to win new customers.''
PrimeCo Personal Communications, which is owned by AirTouch Communications and Bell Atlantic,
provides digital wireless service in more than 30 major cities in Alabama, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana,
Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin. Sale of the company's Hawaii license and operations is pending
regulatory approval. In the continental U.S., the company has PCS licenses covering about 60 million
potential customers in 10 major trading areas and has nearly 3,100 employees. At the end of the third
quarter 1998, PrimeCo had more than 700,000 subscribers. PrimeCo phones and service are sold
through the company's 95 stores and kiosks, its business-to-business direct sales force, about 2,200
indirect retailers and its toll-free telephone sales line 800/PRIMECO(SM). The address for PrimeCo's
interactive Web site is www.primeco.com.
Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., designs, builds and delivers a wide range of
public and private networks, communications systems and software, data networking systems, business
telephone systems and microelectronic components. Bell Labs is the research and development arm
for the company. More information about Lucent Technologies is available on the company's Web site
at: lucent.com. SignalSoft is a charter member of Lucent's Cooperative Innovations(SM)
Program, which supplements Lucent-developed and branded solutions that stimulate usage with new
services or help carriers better manage records for billing and customer care.
GTE TSI provides integrated wireless solutions for more than 180 wireless operators throughout North
America, Latin America and Europe. These solutions, supported by state-of-the-art network
capabilities, include roaming facilitation and fraud management featuring the industry's most advanced
technologies for validation, verification, authentication and profiling.
InfoNow Corp. (OTC:INOW - news) of Denver provides automated location referral and inquiry
management services. InfoNow outsources these services via the public Internet or private intranets
for clients in ten countries, including eight of the ten largest global computer and networking firms and
six of the eight largest banks in North America, as well as other industry leaders like Allstate,
American Airlines, FedEx, Maytag, Shell, Transamerica, United Healthcare and Visa. For more
information, please visit www.infonow.com.
Boulder, Colo.-based SignalSoft Corp. is a leading international software developer of location-based
services for the wireless intelligent network. The Company has pioneered a suite of Wireless Location
Services(TM) that allow wireless network operators to offer a wide range of new revenue-generating
services to subscribers in the areas of safety, billing, information and tracking. Since its founding in
1995, SignalSoft has forged partnerships with a broad range of leading companies throughout the
wireless industry. These partnerships permit SignalSoft to seamlessly offer its software solutions to
wireless network operators worldwide. For more information about SignalSoft, please visit the
Company's web site at signalsoftcorp.com.
Wireless Location Services(TM) and local.info(TM) are trademarks of SignalSoft Corp.
Contact:
Pairelations, LLC
Susan J. Lewis, 303/804-0494
pairelate@aol.com
or
SignalSoft Corp.
Marcey J. Cote, 303/381-3046
mcote@signalsoftcorp.com |
