@Road Teams With Cingular Wireless to Co-Market Mobile Resource Management Solutions; Agreement Provides for Companies to Combin
08 Septembre 2005 - 1:30PM
Business Wire
@Road(R), Inc. (NASDAQ:ARDI), a global provider of Mobile Resource
Management (MRM) and intelligent field service automation
solutions, and Cingular Wireless today announced that they are
co-marketing MRM and wireless business solutions to enterprise
customers in several industries. Under the terms of the agreement,
@Road and Cingular will jointly offer MRM solutions that improve
asset and fleet management for companies with both private and
for-hire fleets in such industries as transportation, consumer
packaged goods and telecommunications. "@Road is at the forefront
of developing and offering innovative solutions that help
enterprise customers in a number of industries improve the
productivity of their mobile workforces while reducing field
service delivery costs," said Laura Johnson, director of enterprise
solutions at Cingular Wireless. "Expanding our alliance ecosystem
with a leading MRM solutions provider such as @Road provides our
enterprise customers who are looking to more effectively and
efficiently manage their mobile workers and resources with
end-to-end wireless and location-based solutions." @Road solutions
will be enabled for Cingular's nationwide(1) high-speed GPRS/EDGE
network, the fastest national wireless data network in the United
States. EDGE, which provides customers with speeds of 70 to 135
kilobits per second depending on the device being used, is
available in 13,000 cities and towns and along more than 40,000
miles of major highways across the country. "@Road is excited to be
working together with Cingular Wireless," said Leo Jolicoeur, chief
marketing officer for @Road. "This arrangement is further proof of
our strategy to partner with key players in the industry to bring
pioneering MRM and field service automation solutions to the
marketplace. It also enables both @Road and Cingular to combine
forces to more effectively co-market and cross-sell our potent MRM
solutions and their extensive nationwide wireless voice and data
network services to existing and future customers." The @Road
family of advanced MRM solutions, such as the @Road GeoManager(SM)
iLM(R), @Road Pathway(SM) iLM and @Road Portico(SM) iLM, can enable
businesses to drive down costs while increasing the productivity of
mobile workers through greater visibility into the daily activities
of their mobile resources -- from actual vehicle routes, starts and
stops, to customizable maps showing mobile resource location
relative to important landmarks. @Road MRM solutions also permit
businesses to upload customer and/or trip information into a
routing engine and generate on-demand, actionable reports such as
optimized routes for drive-time, fuel economy, city ordinance
compliance and much more. Cingular Wireless provides wireless
services to 95 of the Fortune 100 companies, and counts more than
80 percent of the Fortune 500 and over 1,200 federal, state and
local government agencies as customers. About Cingular Wireless
Cingular Wireless is the largest wireless carrier in the United
States, serving 51.6 million customers. Cingular, a joint venture
between SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE:SBC) and BellSouth
Corporation (NYSE:BLS), has the largest digital voice and data
network in the nation -- the ALLOVER(SM) network -- and the largest
mobile-to-mobile community of any national wireless carrier.
Cingular is the only U.S. wireless carrier to offer Rollover(R),
the wireless plan that lets customers keep their unused monthly
minutes. Details of the company are available at
http://www.cingular.com. Get Cingular Wireless press releases
e-mailed to you automatically. Sign up at
http://cingular.mediaroom.com. About @Road @Road, Inc. is a leading
global provider of solutions designed to automate the management of
mobile resources and to optimize the service delivery process for
customers across a variety of industries. By providing real-time
Mobile Resource Management infrastructure integrating wireless
communications, location-based technologies, transaction processing
and the Internet, @Road solutions are designed to provide a secure,
scalable, upgradeable, enterprise-class platform, and are offered
in on-demand software delivery, on-premise or hybrid environments
that seamlessly connect mobile workers in the field to real-time
corporate data on demand. @Road provides Mobile Resource Management
solutions to approximately 160,000 subscribers and end users around
the world. The company is headquartered in Fremont, Calif., and has
a global presence with offices in North America, Europe and Asia.
For more information on @Road solutions, visit www.road.com. (1)
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this press release contains forward-looking statements regarding
matters that may affect our future operating results, financial
position and cash flows. These statements are based on assumptions
and estimates and are subject to risks and uncertainties. There are
possible developments that could cause our actual results to differ
materially from those forecasted or implied by our forward-looking
statements. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these
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update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a
result of new information, future events or otherwise. While the
below list of cautionary statements is not exhaustive, some factors
that could affect future operating results, financial position and
cash flows and could cause actual results to differ materially from
those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements are:
-- the pervasive and intensifying competition in all markets where
we operate; -- failure to quickly realize capital and expense
synergies from, and possible dispositions associated with, the
acquisition of AT&T Wireless as a result of technical,
logistical, regulatory, business and other factors; -- problems
associated with the transition of our network to higher speed
technologies; -- slow growth of our data services due to lack of
popular applications, terminal equipment, advanced technology and
other factors; -- sluggish economic and employment conditions in
the markets we serve; -- the final outcome of FCC proceedings,
including rulemakings, and judicial review, if any, of such
proceedings; -- enactment and impact of state and federal laws,
regulations and requirements pertaining to our operations; and --
the outcome of pending or threatened complaints and litigation.
Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters
discussed in this news release are forward-looking statements
involving risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results
to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements.
These factors, risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited
to, customer acceptance of @Road MRM solutions; the ability of
@Road to correct undetected errors or defects in such solutions;
the ability of @Road and its partners to market, sell and support
@Road products and services; the timing of purchasing and
implementation decisions by other prospects and customers;
competitive and pricing pressures; the dependence of @Road on
mobile data systems technology, wireless networks, network
infrastructure and positioning systems owned and controlled by
others; and general economic and political conditions. Further
information regarding these and other risks is included in the
@Road Report on Form 10-K dated March 15, 2005, in the @Road Report
on Form 10-Q dated August 9, 2005, and in its other filings with
the Securities and Exchange Commission. @Road and iLM are
registered trademarks of @Road, Inc. The @Road logo, @Road
GeoManager, @Road Pathway and @Road Portico are trademarks of
@Road, Inc. All other product or service names mentioned herein are
the trademarks or service marks of their respective owners.
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