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American Millennium Corporation Announces
''Around-the-Clock'' Enhanced Notification Service for
its Customers
MOUNT DORA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 16, 1999--American Millennium
Corporation, Inc. (AMC) (Nasdaq OTC:AMCI - news) announced today that it has implemented use of an enhanced service
to notify its customers of conditions or changes in the status of the customer's asset being monitored.
AMC Chairman and CEO Stephen F. Watwood noted that the company has recently installed its satellite ''subscriber
communicators'' on numerous natural gas compressors and oil wells for various customers in Southwest Texas and New
Mexico. ''With AMC's new 24/7 service, an operator from the call center can place a telephone call, send a page, or send a
fax to our customers to alert them to a gas compressor shutting down unexpectedly, or any other data that has been
pre-arranged on a need-to-know basis. Each notification sequence can be customized to the individual customer's
requirement,'' he said.
In detailing how important this latest service feature can be to an AMC customer, Watwood gave the example of a gas well
technician who wishes to be paged when a gas compressor shuts down or starts up. ''In a simple 'running' or 'not running'
application, AMC can send a numeric message to a pager that lets the technician know that a gas compressor has either just
shut down or started up. The identification of the compressor, status, time of day, and date are also included in the message. If
the technician wants to confirm acknowledgement of the page, we can send the page every fifteen minutes until the technician
calls an 800 telephone number provided by AMC to confirm receipt of the page,'' Watwood stated. ''This is a big
breakthrough for a technician who either doesn't have access to a computer for whatever reason or doesn't even use a
computer in the day-to-day routine of keeping tabs on an oil or gas well,'' he added.
In this application, according to Bruce R. Bacon, AMC's Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer, if no
acknowledgement is received within a specified time frame, a notification operator can intervene and start down a call list
furnished by the customer. Certain customers may want to be notified by an operator only when an alarm condition exists.
Those customers can, at any time, get a complete history of their assets from an AMC supplied web page.
Watwood also stated that plans embraced by AMC call for upgrading the Internet platform of notification currently being
utilized by the company. ''All AMC subscribers will soon have their own web page with the historical data of each asset being
monitored. Data tables, maps, and user friendly graphic illustrations will be designed for each customer,'' added Watwood.
The company also stressed that tracking for mobile assets can be accomplished with the assistance of operators in the control
center. The operator can ''pull up'' a map of the asset location and relay this information to the customer, thus eliminating the
need for immediate access to a computer. The customer will have the ability to request that the operator ''ping'' (or query) the
monitoring equipment at the asset site for current conditions.
''The response to the various innovations that AMC has developed to make use of remote satellite monitoring simple and easy
to understand has been tremendous among the group of oil and gas operators, field engineers, and technicians we are currently
working with,'' Watwood said. ''We will continue to take the methodical approach of educating, demonstrating, and installing
as the oil and gas industry becomes aware of the significant cost reductions and savings made possible by using the latest
satellite technology,'' he added.
AMC is a value-added reseller for Dulles, Virginia based ORBCOMM USA, L.P., a provider of low-earth orbit (LEO)
satellite-based data and message communication services. ORBCOMM is a partnership owned by Orbital Sciences
Corporation (NYSE: ORB - news) and Teleglobe Inc. of Canada (NYSE, TSE, and ME: TGO). To date, ORBCOMM has
launched 28 LEO satellites. AMC's current value-added solutions include two-way communication for remote oil and gas sites,
as well as being able to monitor multiple functions aboard railcars, intermodal containers, and oil and gas sites. The data is
transmitted and received via the ORBCOMM satellites and can then be posted to the Internet or sent to our service center for
use by end users subscribing to the service.
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risk and uncertainties that could cause the company's actual
results and experience to differ materially from anticipated results and expectations expressed in these forward-looking
statements. In particular, AMC's plans may be revised, and its actual results may differ materially from that indicated by its
current plans.
Contact:
American Millennium Corporation, Inc., Mount Dora
James C. Statham, 352/735-0116
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