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To: Ruffian who wrote (41929)	9/20/1999 12:08:00 PM
From: Jack Jackson	Respond to of 152472

Monday September 20, 11:22 am Eastern Time Company Press Release TeleCommunication Systems Inc., TCS, Announces Mobile to IP Short Messaging Service for CDMA & TDMA ANNAPOLIS, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 20, 1999-- TeleCommunication Systems Inc. (TCS) announced today an enhanced Mobile Originated Short Message Service solution that allows mobile phone users to send short text messages to internet protocol (IP) based applications and devices. The mobile user that originates the short messages can now request, reply to or retrieve information from a host of applications including email, web content, stock trading and banking. For example, a mobile user can now reply to short messages received from business and personal contacts on the web. The mobile to IP messages are delivered by the short message service center directly to the user specified email address. Similarly, mobile users now have the ability to request bank balances, obtain flight schedules and confirm stock market transactions just as they do from their desktop. This currently available enhancement to the Mobile Originated Short Message Service solution builds upon the basic capability to address the need to send short messages from a subscriber's handset to an External Short Message Entity supporting queries on a TCP/IP network. This functionality allows communication between wireless subscribers and different services available only through a TCP/IP connected system. This feature has been integrated with the Internet Gateway server offered by TCS. Lucent and TCS's Mobile Originated Short Message Service conforms to the IS-41 standard. The solution is now available for CDMA and TDMA networks, and will be demonstrated at PCS'99, in New Orleans. Stop by the Lucent booth (No. 5544) for a live demo. TCS is a participant in Lucent's Intelligent Alliances and Cooperative Innovations programs, respectively designed to promote third-party applications for Lucent's IN and wireless networks platforms. Under the recently announced ''Full Circle'' initiative, Lucent is committed to working with hardware and software companies, service providers, portal companies and content providers across the industry to develop innovative services that help network operators differentiate their offering for end users. Lucent offers a wide range of Intelligent Network solutions that allow service providers to offer wireless, wireline and Internet services to consumers across a variety of protocols. Lucent's wireless IN software solutions allow consumers to take advantage of services such as Short Message Service Center, PrePaid and Calling Party Pays Services. Lucent also offers a wide range of IN-based wireline and Internet services such as Flexible Number Routing, Long-Distance Platform and Online Communication Center with Internet Call Waiting. Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, NJ, 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. For more information on Lucent Technologies, visit the web site at lucent.com. Founded in 1987, TeleCommunication Systems, Inc., Annapolis, MD, develops network application software and provides systems integration solutions for wireless and wireline telecommunications networks. TCS's flagship software products were among the first intelligent network solutions for telecommunications carriers and other major technology-base customer organizations. The TCS Prepaid Wireless application supports prepayment authorization without the need for a service bureau or routing off the switched network. TCS specialists use established system methodologies and industry standards to develop optimized solutions at competitive prices. Visit the TCS web site at www.telecomsys.com. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact: TeleCommunication Systems, Inc., Annapolis Jeff Arens, 410/280-1189 arensj@telecomsys.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Related News Categories: computers, internet, telecom -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright © 1999 Business Wire. All rights reserved. All the news releases provided by Business Wire are copyrighted. Any forms of copying other than an individual user's personal reference without express written permission is prohibited. Further distribution of these materials is strictly forbidden, including but not limited to, posting, emailing, faxing, archiving ina public database, redistributing via a computer network or in a printed form. See our Important Disclaimers and Legal Information. Questions or Comments?