Press Release
June 26, 2001
More Members of the Legal Community Choose Motient as Their Wireless Email Solution Provider
Motient Now the Network of Choice for Wireless Email for the Law Firms of Piper Marbury Rudnick & Wolfe LLP and Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Reston, VA - Motient Corporation (NASDAQ: MTNT) has further strengthened its presence in the legal community by becoming the standard for wireless email service for the lawyers of Piper Marbury Rudnick & Wolfe LLP (PMRW) and Willkie Farr & Gallagher. The two east coast based firms will use BlackBerry™ by Motient, a wireless email solution for Microsoft Exchange environments.
Motient is a nationwide provider of wireless email and data services, operating the nation's largest wireless data network. The Motient network provides the broadest and most reliable data communications of any network in the country. BlackBerry is one of several email offerings supplied and supported by Motient and was developed by Research In Motion Limited (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM) of Canada, creator of the popular RIM Wireless Handhelds™.
"The addition of these two law firms is further evidence of Motient's commitment and ability to serve the legal community's wireless needs," said Mike Fabbri, vice president of sales for Motient. "We are the provider of choice for wireless email, not only for these two firms, but for other prominent law firms as well, including Skadden Arps."
PMRW is a business law firm of over 800 lawyers with offices in Chicago, Washington, Baltimore, New York, Philadelphia, Dallas, Tampa, Reston, and Los Angeles. Some of the firm's practice areas include corporate IPOs, mergers & acquisitions, real estate transactions, finance & securities, litigation and national products liability, securities litigation practices, and government regulatory practices.
"In order to best serve our clients, our lawyers need to be equipped with the most advanced mobile computing tools available," said Denée Rosasco of PMRW. "The BlackBerry service and Motient's experience and proven ability to cater to the legal community, is a combination that currently provides the best possible solution for wireless email."
Willkie Farr and Gallagher is a leading international law firm founded in 1888 in New York City. The firm currently has over 500 attorneys with offices in New York, Washington, D.C., Paris, London, Frankfurt, Milan and Rome.
The core of Willkie's practice has been and remains corporate and securities law and litigation. As legal and regulatory challenges have evolved, the firm's areas of expertise have expanded in response. Focused on the Corporate and Financial Services industries, the firm specializes in a variety of areas, including mergers and acquisitions, public securities offerings, private equity and venture capital, new economy, private placement and bank lending, investment management, public finance and insurance.
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 thousands of miles of U. S. coastal waters.
eLink is a service mark and Motient is a trademark of Motient Corporation. The BlackBerry and RIM families of related marks, images and symbols are the exclusive properties of, and trademarks of Research In Motion Limited and are used by permission. "BlackBerry by Motient" - used by permission.
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, 2000 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's Investor Relations Department.
