| TruePosition
and Cingular Sign National Multi-Year Agreement For GSM Location
Solution
TruePosition's U-TDOA Location Solution Provides
High Accuracy For Anyphone, Anywhere
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. and ATLANTA, Ga., March 10, 2003 -
TruePosition Inc., a leading provider of location-based technologies
today announced a multi-year agreement with Cingular Wireless to
provide a location-based E-911 technology for Cingular's GSM networks.
The same agreement also states that Cingular has contracted to upgrade
its existing TruePosition location system to the TruePosition GSM
location product as well.
As previously announced in the Fall of 2002, TruePosition's U-TDOA
location solution complies with the regulatory mandated standards.
In testing conducted on Cingular's Wilmington, Delaware system,
67% of calls were located within 47.1 meters and 95% of calls were
located within 112.2 meters. TruePosition has currently deployed
over 4000 units in cell sites in numerous markets across the United
States.
This multi-year agreement is designed to support Cingular with
meeting the FCC enhanced 9-1-1 mandate. The FCC requires wireless
carriers to provide designated public safety agencies with location
information for 911 calls in accordance with the following standard
for network-based location technologies such as TruePosition's:
100 meters for 67% of calls and 300 meters for 95% of calls.
"TruePosition brings a fresh perspective backed by years of experience
and the largest body of location services intellectual property
in the industry. Our technology is cost-effective, accurate and
'ready to use,'" said Kent Sander, President and Chief Operating
Officer of TruePosition. "We're proud to be working with Cingular
Wireless in order to ensure their compliance with the FCC wireless
enhanced 9-1-1 requirements."
"Cingular is committed to meeting the FCC's requirements for enhanced
9-1-1," said Brian Fontes, Vice President of Federal Regulatory
for Cingular Wireless. "We are building on our existing relationship
with True Position to meet the federal mandate."
"Our location solution is compatible with all air-interfaces across
all types of environments with all existing wireless phones," said
Roger Pavane, Vice President, TruePosition. "Additional benefits
of our highly accurate location technology include the ability to
support future offerings such as commercial location-based wireless
services."
About Cingular Wireless
Cingular Wireless, a joint venture between SBC Communications (NYSE:
SBC) and BellSouth (NYSE: BLS), serves more than 22 million voice
and data customers across the United States. A leader in mobile
voice and data communications, Cingular is the only U.S. wireless
carrier to offer Rollover, the wireless plan that lets customers
keep their unused monthly minutes. Cingular provides cellular/PCS
service in 43 of the top 50 markets nationwide, and provides corporate
e-mail and other advanced data services through its GPRS and Mobitex
packet data networks. Details of the company are available at www.cingular.com.
About TruePosition, Inc.
TruePosition, headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, is a leading
provider of integrated wireless location products and services to
both U.S. and international wireless carriers. TruePosition provides
a suite of turnkey location technologies supporting the varying
needs of wireless carriers and location service providers. TruePosition
technology operates with all major air interfaces and is capable
of locating over 95% of the world's wireless phones. TruePosition
is a subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation (NYSE: L, LMC.B), which
owns interests in a broad range of video programming, broadband
distribution, interactive technology services and communications
businesses. Liberty Media and its affiliated companies operate in
the United States, Europe, South America and Asia with some of the
world's most recognized and respected brands, including Encore,
STARZ!, Discovery, QVC, and Court TV. For more information, visit
http://www.trueposition.com.
Contact:
TruePosition
Michael Amarosa
212-301-2814
mamarosa@trueposition.com
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