Press Release
November 1, 2000
Motient Announces Commercial Deployment of BlackBerry Running on the Motient Network
BlackBerry By Motient Expands The Range of Potential Network Applications
Reston, VA - Motient Corporation, (NASDAQ: MTNT) announced today general availability of BlackBerry™ by Motient. The first users of BlackBerry on the Motient network include a number of leading money center investment and financial firms.
BlackBerry is a popular wireless email solution that was developed by Research In Motion Limited (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM) and is being provided on the Motient network under license from RIM. RIM also is a manufacturer of wireless handheld devices including the units used by Motient in providing the eLinkSM branded service.
BlackBerry by Motient (Exchange Edition) is specifically designed for large corporate accounts operating in a Microsoft Exchange environment. The BlackBerry solution offers the most advanced encryption features, providing the degree of security often required by customers such as financial institutions and brokerage houses.
"We are extremely pleased to have our first BlackBerry by Motient customers up and running," said Walter V. Purnell, Jr., president and chief executive officer of Motient. "While our eLink service is successfully deployed in a variety of business sectors, BlackBerry gives us entry into another type of corporate customer."
BlackBerry by Motient combines two of the most popular wireless handheld devices on the market, with the unmatched capacity, reliability, geographic reach and deep in-building penetration of the Motient wireless data network.
About Motient
Motient (www.motient.com) owns and operates an integrated terrestrial/satellite network and provides a wide range of two-way mobile and Internet communications services principally to business-to-business customers and enterprises. The company provides eLinkSM and BlackBerry™ by Motient two-way wireless email service to customers accessing email through corporate servers, Internet Service Provider (ISP) and Mail Service Provider (MSP) accounts, and paging network suppliers. Motient serves a variety of markets including mobile professionals, telemetry, transportation, field service, and nationwide voice dispatch offering coverage to all 50 states, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and hundreds of miles of U. S. coastal waters.
eLink is a service mark and Motient is a trademark of Motient Corporation BlackBerry is a trademark and RIM and Research In Motion are registered trademarks of Research In Motion Limited.
Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements in this news release are described in Motient Corporation's registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-42104) and in Motient's annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1999 and its other periodic filings and reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Copies of such reports and filings are available upon request from Motient Corporation's Investor Relations Department.
