Press Release

Licence for RAM Mobile Data’s Mobitex

network renewed until 2014

Maarssen, the Netherlands, March, 2005 - The Radiocommunications Agency of the Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs has pre-renewed to year-end 2014 RAM Mobile Data’s licence for the frequencies it uses in its Mobitex network.

Renewal allows RAM Mobile Data, a provider of mobile data communication solutions, to continue its Mobitex network until at least the end of 2014. This is an important development for the many customers who conclude long-term contracts because of their investment and confidence in this technology. Customers like ANWB (Netherlands Automobile Association), the Connexion and Arriva bus companies, the cities of Rotterdam, Utrecht and The Hague and many taxi companies and vehicle fleet managers have recently renewed for several years their contracts for mobile data communication over the Mobitex network of RAM Mobile Data.

The Radiocommunications Agency took into account in its decision the position the Mobitex network occupies in the Dutch telecommunications landscape and the network's economic importance. The network serves more than 1,000 customers and 30,000 business users.

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About Mobitex

Mobitex is an open international standard optimised for mobile data communication by business users. It was the first packet-switching mobile network in the Netherlands. RAM Mobile Data has been operating the Mobitex network in the Netherlands since 1993.

Ericsson developed the Mobitex technology. A total of 31 Mobitex networks have been installed in various countries. New implementations are occurring all the time. That is why hardware and software developers are extremely interested in the technology.

Packet-switching offers users the following benefits:

  • users are always online;
  • the host and the mobile unit can both initiate communication (two-way data communication);
  • cost-effective:
  • only successfully delivered messages are billed;
  • economical for frequent communication;
  • budgetable: the costs are easy to estimate beforehand.

About RAM Mobile Data

RAM Mobile Data is an independent specialised provider of solutions for wireless and mobile data communication for the Benelux business market. RAM Mobile Data uses various development tools to create applications usable with GPRS, UMTS and Mobitex. RAM Mobile Data owns the Mobitex network, the first packet-switching network for data communication. The company resells GPRS and UMTS lines of several operators that it bundles into its own propositions. RAM Mobile Data further offers professional services like consultancy, project management and technical support. The RAM Navigation Centre (the company's data centres) hosts applications, gateways and databases for end-users and service providers.

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For more information please contact:

RAM Mobile Data
Jeannette Harskamp

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