Motorola and Nextel Joint Statement Regarding A-GPS Services
PLANTATION, Fla. & RESTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 20, 2004--Motorola Inc. (NYSE:MOT) and Nextel Communications Inc. (NASDAQ:NXTL) issued a statement today announcing they are aware of a software issue affecting assisted global positioning satellite location (A-GPS) services for the Motorola i205, i305, i530, i710, i730, i733, i736 and i830 iDEN(R) phones. Engineers from Motorola and Nextel are working to determine the root cause and design a permanent fix to remedy the situation.
For customers using the Motorola i58 and i88 iDEN phones, the A-GPS commercial location services capabilities are fully functional. A-GPS utilizes a combination of satellite, network and software technology to identify the approximate latitude and longitude of the wireless phone. Nextel's customers use A-GPS for such purposes as locating fleets of vehicles as they travel or downloading real time weather updates. Additionally, Nextel's Motorola iDEN phones continue to be fully operational with regard to other services -- cellular phone calls, Nextel Direct Connect(R) calls, wireless data such as text messaging and SMS, voice mail, Caller ID, etc.
Nextel's 911 service continues to be available throughout the country, transmitting the caller's callback number and nearest cell site to those Public Safety Answering Points - or 911 - call centers. Nextel has temporarily disabled the transmission of the A-GPS enabled location information for E911 Phase II location services until a permanent solution to the software issue is available.
Nextel will continue selling its current line of Motorola iDEN phones and will update any functionality as required to address this issue.
For further updates, please visit www.nextel.com/gpsupdates
About Motorola
Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) is a global leader in wireless, broadband and automotive communications technologies that help make life smarter, safer, simpler, synchronized and fun. Sales in 2003 were $27.1 billion. Motorola creates innovative technological solutions that benefit people at home, at work and on the move. The Company also is a progressive corporate citizen dedicated to operating ethically, protecting the environment and supporting the communities in which it does business. For more information: www.motorola.com.
MOTOROLA and the stylized M Logo are registered in the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. All other product or service names are the property of their respective owners. (C) Motorola, Inc. 2004
About Nextel
Nextel Communications, a FORTUNE 200 company based in Reston, Va., is a leading provider of fully integrated wireless communications services and has built the largest guaranteed all-digital wireless network in the country covering thousands of communities across the United States. Today 95 percent of FORTUNE 500(R) companies are Nextel customers. Nextel and Nextel Partners, Inc. currently serve 296 of the top 300 U.S. markets where approximately 252 million people live or work.
Nextel, the Nextel logo, and Nextel Direct Connect are trademarks and/or service marks of Nextel Communications, Inc.
"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. A number of the matters and subject areas discussed in this press release that are not historical or current facts deal with potential future circumstances and developments. Such matters and subject areas include, in particular, our expectations regarding the feasibility of and timing for, the development of solutions for the A-GPS issues. The discussion of such matters and subject areas is qualified by the inherent risks and uncertainties surrounding future expectations generally, and also may materially differ from Nextel's actual future experience involving any one or more of such matters and subject areas. Nextel has attempted to identify, in context, certain of the factors that it currently believes may cause actual future experience and results to differ from Nextel's current expectations regarding the relevant matter or subject area. Such risks and uncertainties include the economic conditions in our targeted markets, performance of our technologies, timely development and delivery of new technologies, competitive conditions, market acceptance of our services, access to sufficient capital to meet any financing needs and the risks that are described from time to time in Nextel reports filed with the SEC, including Nextel's annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2003 and in the first quarter 2004 Form 10-Q. This press release speaks only as of its date, and Nextel disclaims any duty to update the information herein.
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