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Gold/Mining/Energy : eDispatch.com EWD.V (formerly Instep Mobile) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ontopequity who wrote (41)	4/15/1999 11:57:00 PM
From: Keith Minler	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 289

Hi All; major news; this came out this afternoon, helps explain the volume and price rise, more of the same to follow, I hope; eDispatch.com teams up with Southern LINC eDispatch.com Wireless Data Inc EWD Shares issued 12,875,034 Apr 14 close $1.45 Thu 15 Apr 99 News Release Mr. Jeff Morris reports eDispatch.com Wireless Data has signed an evaluation and installation agreement with Southern LINC. With this agreement, Southern LINC, an integrated digital wireless communication service from Southern Company, will demonstrate the eDispatch.com system to select customers over its iDEN wireless network as part of a beta test of wireless data services. Pending successful completion of the beta test, Southern LINC plans to commercially deploy eDispatch.com as part of a suite of wireless data services later this year. eDispatch.com is a wireless Internet data system that offers a new way to manage, support and track mobile workers. The system is aimed at companies who manage fleets of 20-100 mobile workers in field service, transportation and security applications. eDispatch.com will use Motorola's i1000plus handset, the first Internet-ready wireless device to integrate the capabilities of a digital phone, two-way radio and alphanumeric pager with Internet microbrowser, e-mail, fax and two-way messaging capabilities. Job details appear as a clear, accurate message on the handset, and as each task evolves, real-time status updates and job completion reports can be entered easily from the keypad. Southern LINC, which stands for Long-range Integrated Network Communications, covers more than 127,000 square miles in the southeast United States, including both major metro and rural areas in Alabama, Georgia, southeastern Mississippi, and the Florida Panhandle. Using Motorola's iDEN technology, Southern LINC combines multiple communication services into one handheld or installed device including Instant LINC (two-way radio), phone service, numeric and text paging and mobile data. Southern Company is an international energy company with $35-billion in assets through regional utilities and operations around the world. It is the largest producer of electricity in the United States and one of the world's largest independent power producers. Based in Atlanta, Ga., Southern Company is the parent firm of Alabama Power, Georgia Power, Gulf Power, Mississippi Power and Savannah Electric. Through its Southern Energy Inc. subsidiary, Southern Company supplies electricity in 10 countries on four continents. It also provides energy-related marketing, trading and technical services and Southern LINC wireless telecommunications. (c) Copyright 1999 Canjex Publishing Ltd. canada-stockwatch.com Later Keith