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IN-TOUCH
INKS THREE-YEAR
DEAL WITH PAGENET
MELVILLE, NY, July 30, 1998
-- PageNet, the world’s largest wireless messaging and information provider,
has awarded a three-year contract to In-Touch Management Systems, Inc.
The company’s In-Touch II paging billing and management system
will now handle all of PageNet’s reseller billing and provisioning nationwide,
which encompasses approximately six million pagers. Alan J. Hills, In-Touch
president, made the announcement.
PageNet has utilized In-Touch’s
services in selected geographic areas since 1993. According to Hills,
the enterprise-wide agreement also provides PageNet with training, instruction
and consultation services.
John M. Van Der Wiel, vice
president of accounting operations for PageNet, indicated the agreement
provides his company with a number of significant advantages as it consolidates
its billing and accounting functions as part of the announced reorganization
of its U.S. operations.
"The In-Touch II system
provides PageNet with a uniform ‘front end’ in working with resellers
around the country," he said. "It enables us to integrate all of our indirect
business into one enterprise wide database for the first time. We will
have one standardized billing and provisioning platform and can centralize
our business practices. As a result, our regional offices can focus exclusively
on sales, and PageNet gets a highly reliable and fast method of signing
up customers through reseller channels."
Hills added that the In-Touch
reseller front end has become an industry standard – PageNet’s approximately
9,000 resellers will be using it. He indicated that in terms of units
in service the agreement represents one of the largest contracts for both
companies - six million pagers in 49 states are included.
PageNet (Nasdaq: PAGE) is a
wireless messaging and information company serving more than 10.6 million
subscribers in the U.S., Canada and Spain. The company offers a full range
of paging and advanced messaging services, including Internet messaging,
guaranteed-delivery messaging and two-way interactive messaging. The company
also develops and integrates wireless solutions for large corporate clients.
In-Touch Management Systems,
Inc., based in Melville, NY, was founded in 1982 and is an industry
leader in developing software and supplying computer management systems
for the paging/NPCS industry. The company’s In-Touch II system
integrates seamless switch/terminal interfacing, billing, inventory, and
accounts receivable functions for paging operators. In-Touch II
is designed with no limits open architecture and hardware/operating system
independence, allowing maximum flexibility and seamless scalability. Today
In-Touch Management Systems services paging/NPCS carriers and resellers
throughout the U.S. and in 17 countries in Europe, Central America and
South America.
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