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Strategies & Market Trends : Cents and Sensibility - Kimberly and Friends' Consortium -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jjetstream who wrote (27592)	11/15/1999 5:18:00 AM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108040

Can you spell"ricochet"?........from Raging Bull column today SIERRA WIRELESS - METRICOM (U.S.). [Wireless World via Reuters Business Briefing Select · Rcvd: Nov 13, 12:39 PM EST ] [here is a story I picked up from First Call--I'm posting it here for you guys!] barrister In another manifestation of its unfolding high-speed wireless data launch strategy, Metricom Inc. [MCOM] has contracted with Sierra Wireless Inc. for the supply of wireless modems. Under a one-year deal valued at more than $30 million, Sierra Wireless will start making modem deliveries during the first quarter of 2001 or sooner. Sierra Wireless, a major Canadian vendor of communication systems solutions in wireless data, also signed a technology licensing agreement with Metricom. Metricom's subscribers will gain access to "Ricochet2" service - scheduled to begin rolling out in U.S. markets next summer - by attaching the modems to their laptop computers. (Phoebe Yong, Sierra Wireless, 604/231-1104; Jeannie Slone, Metricom, 408/399-8200.).