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News
Issue #2002 - 19
(May 2002)
(Updated May
22, 2002)
INFRASTRUCTURE, PRODUCTS & SERVICES
Nextair Signs Alliance Agreement
with Motorola, Telus and European Partners
Motorola
Developer of wireless
enterprise applications Nextair has signed an Alliance Agreement
with Motorola.
Under the terms of the agreement, Motorola will provide mobile
operators across Europe with "Nextair’s mdispatch, a vertical
application which they can then re-brand and bundle with network
airtime to business customers in a wide range of vertical
markets," said Ian Gibson, account director, Motorola.
Nextair said it will train Motorola’s staff on various pre-sale
activities and will retain only post-sale activities such as testing
on operator networks, training, pilot installation and hosting.
According to Gibson Of Motorola, "Motorola is projecting mdispatch sales
to four carriers with an expected 10,000 end users for year one with
exponential growth in the following years. A supply agreement with a
major carrier will be announced shortly."
Mobistar of Europe
Nextair Inc. also announced the signing of an agreement with Mobistar,
a member of the Orange Group, The agreement will see Mobistar co-sell Nextair's AIRIX enabled mdispatch
wireless field force solution and offer DispatchForce to corporate clients
through relationships with Systems Integrators. ovider of wireless applications.
Mobistar will equip its Enterprise pre-sales team with Compaq iPAQs
configured with Nextair's AIRIX Smart Client software and Nextair's mdispatch field service client application. In addition, Mobistar will
collaborate with major Systems Integrators such as Unisys and DatAction to
sell DispatchForce to major corporate clients.
Telus Mobility of Canada
Nextair Announces Agreement with Leading Canadian Wireless Carrier;
Telus Mobility to resell Nextair's mdispatch wireless dispatch
solution across Canada. Telus Mobility will offer mdispatch to Small & Medium Enterprise Customers.
Nextair's mdispatch is built on Nextair AIRIX Enabling Technology, which
supports rapid development of sophisticated wireless applications that can run in real-time or
off-line on a multitude of networks and handheld devices. Nextair's
AIRIX allows enterprises to extend the functionality and value of
their existing internal applications to their mobile employees,
enabling them to access corporate data from handheld devices.
For more information: http://www.nextair.com
MobileInfo.com’s Comments & Advisory: This is
good news for Nextair who has been developing for the past twelve
months a general-purpose mobile application development platform and
specific industry applications based on this platform. AIRIX is an
easy-to-use wireless application development platform for enterprise
applications. These partnerships with Motorola, Telus Mobility of
Canada and Mobistar of Europe are significant wins in the carrier
sector. It is a good strategy for a young software development company
to use the arms and legs of carriers to promote its software among
carriers' customer set.
Note: This news release may contain
forward-looking statements. Readers should take appropriate caution in
developing plans utilizing these products, services and technology
architectures. All trademarks used in this summary are
the property of their respective owners.
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