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To: Keith Feral who wrote (115011)	3/4/2002 7:45:37 AM
From: Ibexx	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

QUALCOMM's OmniTRACS Secures the Nation's Leading Transportation Fleets Nation's Top Trucking Fleets Demonstrate Commitment to Technological Innovation and Security SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 4, 2002--QUALCOMM Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM - news), the leader in mobile communications for the transportation industry, today announced agreements with 11 of the nation's top truckload carriers to use the OmniTRACS® mobile communications system, signaling a continued commitment by QUALCOMM to provide the highest value, secure wireless fleet management solutions. Since the beginning of fiscal year 2002, QUALCOMM has signed truckload customers Van Wyck, Florida Express, WH Transportation, Dart Trucking, Interstate Carriers, and Zenith Freight. In addition, QUALCOMM has renewed existing OmniTRACS contracts with Swift Transportation (SWFT), System TWT, Manfredi Motor Transit, Oliver Trucking and Millis Transfer. ``Fleets are confident that QUALCOMM's mobile communications solutions will help them to provide safe transportation on the nation's highways, while finding increased productivity gains and operating efficiencies,'' said Glynn Spangenberg, vice president of truckload business operations for QUALCOMM Wireless Business Solutions. ``Our customers demonstrate the value of our fleet management systems through their contractual commitments to QUALCOMM, and QUALCOMM reciprocates this commitment through our customer-focused innovative solutions that enable our customers to derive the maximum benefits from their mobile communications dollar.'' QUALCOMM's OmniTRACS system is a satellite-based mobile communications and tracking system that provides real-time messaging and position reporting between fleets and their operations centers. Messages are sent via satellite through QUALCOMM's Network Management Center to dispatch centers throughout the United States. The OmniTRACS system is an interactive, fully integrated information management system that includes two-way mobile communications, satellite tracking and fleet management software. QUALCOMM has helped the transportation industry become more efficient since 1988 when the introduction of the OmniTRACS mobile communications system provided transportation companies with an innovative and effective way of managing logistics. Today, QUALCOMM's fleet management solutions continue to set the standard by offering products and services that meet and exceed the demands of a constantly changing marketplace. Now, with OmniExpress®, a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA)-based digital wireless communications and tracking system, along with other industry-leading technologies, QUALCOMM continues to expand into new mobile markets. QUALCOMM is the industry's global leader in providing high-value wireless data solutions with a Network Management Center that processes more than seven million transactions each day and over 400,000 QUALCOMM mobile systems shipped to businesses in more than 33 countries on four continents. <snip> Ibexx