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Motorola and Nextel Joint Statement
Regarding A-GPS Services
PLANTATION, Fla.
and RESTON, Va. -- 20 July 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® 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® 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.
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® 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.
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Contacts:
Nextel
Investors
Paul
Blalock
+1-703-433-4300
Media
Russell
Wilkerson
+1-703-932-5950
Motorola
Jennifer
Weyrauch
+1-847-435-5320
Jennifer.Weyrauch@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. © Motorola, Inc. 2004
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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