SkyTel Announces Support for Microsoft Windows CE Computing Platform
JACKSON, Miss. — September 16, 1996 — SkyTel(R) announced today that the company will support the Microsoft(R) Windows(R) CE platform, the only open, standard, portable and compact Windows platform for PC-integrated consumer electronics.
SkyTel is planning to offer consumers unprecedented convenience and portability for exchanging wireless messages with Internet users and other SkyTel pager users.
SkyTel 2-Way is the most effective two-way paging and wireless messaging service for users to send and receive brief text messages anytime from a compact, portable device. SkyTel began working early on with Microsoft and its handheld PC hardware manufacturing partners and plans to deliver software and messaging services for the new Windows CE computing platform.
"In the two years since the initial NPCS licenses were granted, the industry has grown at a phenomenal rate spurring the development of numerous form factors for NPCS devices," said Doug Brackbill, senior vice president, advanced applications group. "We believe that the integration of wireless messaging and computing will bring a whole new level of wireless functionality to these devices and are pleased that we have a partner like Microsoft to aid in this development."
"We are pleased to be working with SkyTel in the support of our Windows CE platform," said Jon Magill, director of marketing, consumer appliances group, Microsoft Corporation. "SkyTel's competence in the area of wireless messaging exchange and their planned product development will further add valuable capabilities to the handheld PC platform."
SkyTel Corporation provides advanced paging and advanced messaging services, including wireless Internet messaging, in thousands of cities worldwide. SkyTel introduced the first-ever alphanumeric one-way service, as well as the first two-way paging and messaging service, which allows users to send messages and respond to messages directly from their pager. Based in Washington, D.C., SkyTel is a subsidiary of Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp., Jackson, Mississippi (NASDAQ: MTEL), the pioneer in wireless messaging technology.
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