ARDIS Receives Reader’s Choice Award from mobilis magazine; Voted Best Wide Area Wireless Services
LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill. — April 15, 1996 — ARDIS today announced that its nationwide wireless data network has received the Reader's Choice Award from the readers of mobilis magazine. In a three month online survey, in which more than two thousand readers participated, ARDIS received the award for Best Wide Area Wireless Services, leading a field that included all existing wireless data technologies, including packet radio and cellular digital packet data.
"ARDIS is committed to driving the growth of the wireless data industry by bringing ease-of-use and ease-of-purchase to organizations and mobile professionals who are turning to wireless communications for added competitive edge and productivity," said Dan Croft, ARDIS senior vice president, Marketing. "Receiving the Reader's Choice Award from the readers of mobilis is a vote of confidence for ARDIS, showing that our efforts are not going unnoticed by the active users of wireless data technology."
"By virtue of being published exclusively on the Web, mobilis attracts a highly motivated and sophisticated audience of mobile computing developers and users. Their selection of ARDIS as the most popular wide area wireless data service indicates that ARDIS has created a service that clearly demonstrates the benefits of wireless data for a wide range of people," said John Jerney, publisher and editor of mobilis.
The survey was conducted on the mobilis World Wide Web home page from November, 1995 through February, 1996. Readers were asked to vote for their favorite mobile computing and communications products, including personal digital assistant (PDA), PDA software, handwriting recognition software and wide-area and local-area wireless services. The results reflect end-users' perceptions about the state of the mobile and wireless industries.
mobilis, a publication of Vancouver, British Columbia-based Volksware, Inc., is the first free monthly magazine dedicated to mobile computing available exclusively on the World Wide Web. In addition to mobilis, Volksware publishes the five-year old industry newsletter Pen-Based Computing: The Journal of Stylus Systems, available by subscription-only. mobilis can be found at http://www.volksware.com/mobilis.
ARDIS operates the first and largest nationwide wireless data network enabling in-building and on-street data communications between mobile workers, using notebook computers and personal digital assistants, and host computers. The ARDIS network serves the top 410 metro areas in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and covers more than 80 percent of the population and 90 percent of the business activity in the United States. The service enables executives and mobile workers to access their corporate information systems or to communicate instantaneously with their peers from virtually any location.
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ARDIS is a registered servicemark of ARDIS Company. All other products mentioned in this release are trademarks of their respective holders.
CONTACT:
Naomi Yeransian
ARDIS
847-913-4233
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or
Albie Jarvis/Jon Bornstein
Copithorne & Bellows
617-252-0606
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