News
Issue #2002 - 13 (April 2002)
(Updated Apr. 3, 2002)

INFRASTRUCTURE, PRODUCTS & SERVICES

GlobalDining Expands Distribution with Nextel Online Wireless Internet Service

BOULDER, CO, March 4, 2002 - GlobalDining, the world's largest and most comprehensive Internet directory of restaurants combined with a global wireless reservations network, today announced the launch of their location-based mobile restaurant directory and reservation network with Nextel Communications, Inc. The GlobalDining restaurant directory is now available and the wireless reservation application is soon to be available through the Nextel Online Wireless Internet Service and Nextel phones. 

Now Nextel's mobile professionals and consumers can locate their favorite restaurants by searching GlobalDining's database of over 500,000 restaurants worldwide. Once a user selects a restaurant from the directory, a single touch connects the user to the restaurant. Detailed information about the restaurant, including walking or driving directions, cuisine types, and special features, is also available. In the near future, through GlobalDining's reservation rating technology, Nextel customers will be able to make wireless restaurant reservations and also help solve the "no show" problem for restaurants and the "late-Table" problem for themselves. 

GlobalDining CEO Jim Nardulli said, "GlobalDining is providing powerful marketing tools that are straightforward and easy to use to restaurateurs everywhere. We offer consumers a content rich restaurant directory, complete with wireless reservation capability." 

Nextel's leadership in wireless data led GlobalDining to launch first on the Nextel Online Wireless Internet Service. "We are delighted to be associated with such a leader," said Nardulli.

"GlobalDining provides restaurants with the ability to reach and interact with Nextel's mobile Internet customers," said Tim Dunne, vice president of business development. "Because GlobalDining establishes a direct relationship with individual restaurants, their content is rich, dynamic and accurate - which makes their service much more useful and satisfying for Nextel customers." 

GlobalDining is available on the Internet at www.globaldining.com and its wireless, mobile Internet directory and reservation service is also delivered globally in cooperation with Motorola, Nokia, Nextel, Palm, XYPoint, and others in the US and Europe. 

About GlobalDining
GlobalDining.com offers the world's largest and most comprehensive Internet directory of restaurants together with a Global Wireless Reservation Network. The Company has patents pending in the US and 
Europe for its restaurant reservation technologies that enable wireless reservations on a global scale without the use of proprietary equipment or software at the restaurant level. GlobalDining Partners include 
Motorola, Nokia, Palm, TCS / XYPoint, Telespatial and others. GlobalDining is distributed by Aspiro, N.B. of Malmö, Sweden in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. 

About Nextel
Nextel Communications Inc., 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. 

For more information, visit Global Dining at http://www.globaldining.com  and Nextel at http://www.nextel.com

Mobileinfo Comments & Advisory: Wireless entertainment applications will be first set of m-commerce applications that will be adopted by the young and upwardly-mobile crowd. Therefore, Nextel is smart in offering this service. 

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