RadioMail and ARDIS Team up to Cut Cost of Wireless Messaging
SAN MATEO, Calif. — May 16, 1994 — RadioMail Corp. and ARDIS have launched a promotion designed to dramatically reduce entry costs for users of wireless messaging services.
The promotion, which runs through July 31, enables customers to begin using RadioMail service by: 1) purchasing a $499 access kit that includes a Motorola InfoTAC wireless modem, RadioMail client software (for Hewlett-Packard Palmtop PCs, IBM-compatible PCs or Apple Macintosh PowerBooks) and cabling; 2) activating RadioMail service for a one-time fee of $99; and 3) signing up for six months of service at $89 per month, which includes an unlimited number of RadioMail messages sent and received over the ARDIS wireless network.
The promotion saves the user 40% of the previous cost of the program's components, which had been $995. RadioMail is a two-way interactive wireless messaging service that allows geographically dispersed individuals and workgroups to communicate in real time. Unlike paging, RadioMail lets users exchange messages with one another and with Internet users, and send messages to fax machines; message delivery is guaranteed.
Geoffrey S. Goodfellow, RadioMail founder and chairman, said: "We're 2working with ARDIS to jump-start the two-way wireless messaging market. With the service priced to provide an unlimited number of messages for under $3.00 a day, it should have particular appeal to workgroups and project teams that require real-time, interactive messaging to perform their jobs faster, better and less expensively."
Frank Wapole, president and chief executive officer of ARDIS, said: "With RadioMail, we are able to offer people the ability to conveniently exchange messages whether they are in buildings, in their vehicles, or on the street. This solution extends ARDIS's current offering in vertical markets and will take us into a number of new areas."
Users can order the RadioMail access kit and sign up for RadioMail by calling either RadioMail Corp. (800-597-6245) or ARDIS (800-662-5328 x900).
ARDIS, a partnership of IBM and Motorola, operates the first nationwide radio data information service enabling in-building and on-street data communications between hand-held terminals and host computers. The ARDIS network serves more than 10,700 cities and towns in 50 states, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, and covers more than 80% of the population and 90% of the business activity in the United States.
RadioMail Corp. is a leading supplier of two-way wireless messaging and information services for users of portable computers and personal communicating devices. Only RadioMail wireless services guarantee message delivery without any intervention on the part of the subscriber. RadioMail offers development tools to enable independent software vendors to create wireless applications that access the RadioMail public gateway.
The RadioMail public gateway provides seamless connectivity between users on incompatible wireless networks such as RAM and ARDIS; to corporate LAN email systems such as Lotus cc:Mail; to public access systems such as MCI Mail, ATT Mail, America Online, Prodigy and CompuServe; and to the worldwide Internet.
The gateway also offers connections to facsimile machines, paging networks, public and private databases, and [email protected].
Note to Editors: RadioMail is a registered trademark of RadioMail Corporation. All other trademarks belong to their respective companies.
CONTACT:
RadioMail Corp.
Ed Forman, 415/286-7800
[email protected]
or
ARDIS
Rob Euler, 708/913-4405
or
Ulevich & Orrange Inc.
William Orrange or Janis Ulevich, 415/329-1590
[email protected]