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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Martin L. Schoffstall
Vice President & CTO
Performance Systems International, Inc.
11800 Sunrise Valley Drive
Suite 1100
Reston, VA 22091
Voice: 1 800.82PSI82
+1 703.620.6651
Fax: +1 703.620.4586
E-Mail: info@psi.com
PSI ENHANCES PC PERSONAL INTERNETWORK SERVICE,
ADDS SUPPORT FOR WIRELESS DATA NETWORKS
Reston, VA - May 4, 1992 - Performance Systems International, Inc. (PSI)
today announced the release of an enhanced version of PSILink, the company's
turnkey Internet service package. PSILink is a seamless service that gives
users global access to electronic resources, including 25 million
electronic mail users on the worldwide Internet.
"PSILink gives end-users a single point of access to a whole world of e-mail
users," said Martin L. Schoffstall, vice president and chief technical
officer of PSI. "The new version of PSILink adds more services and support
for more mail networks, including wireless data networks."
The improved PSILink service includes Internet file transfer, USENET/News,
and message attachments. It delivers electronic mail to subscribers of the
Internet, MCIMail, ATTMail, CompuServe, AppleLink, SprintMail and others.
The new version of PSILink also supports wireless mobile data networks
operated nationwide by RAM Mobile Data, a business venture between RAM
Broadcasting and BellSouth.
RAM Mobile Data networks provide fast, efficient and economical data
communications for the mobile environment, using the standard Mobitex
architecture for packet switched message exchange between portable and
mobile terminals and their host computers. The system is optimized for
short, interactive data messages and offers greater capacity and faster
throughput than cellular, switched systems.
"By adding support for RAM, PSI is giving laptop users wireless access to
the e-mail boxes of the world," said Martin Levetin, RAM vice president
and general manager of wireless messaging. "We're very pleased that PSI
shares our vision of wireless connectivity."
Using a DOS-based laptop computer and a portable radio modem such as
Ericsson GE's Mobidem, PSILink subscribers can exchange messages over the
Internet from anywhere within RAM's radio coverage area -- including
airports, offices and vehicles. Ericsson GE's Mobidem M1090 Portable
Wireless Modem provides wireless data communications connectivity for
palmtop, notebook and laptop computers. It weighs less than one pound
and carries a suggested retail price of $1,795.
"With support for RAM mobile data networks, PSILink connects wireless and
wired network environments worldwide," Bill Frezza, director of marketing
and business development at Ericsson GE Mobile Communications, Wireless
Computing Division. "No other internetworking service provider gives
users one software package and a single point of contact for both wired
and wireless networks."
Low speed (1200 and 2400 baud) and high speed (9600 baud) local dialup
PSILink service is available through PSINet in major U.S. cities including:
Ann Arbor, MI Corning, NY Newark, NJ Santa Clara, CA
Albany, NY Dallas, TX New York, NY Seattle, WA
Atlanta, GA Hartford, CT Philadelphia, PA Stamford, CT
Austin, TX Houston, TX Portland, OR Syracuse, NY
Binghamton, NY Islip, NY Potsdam, NY Trenton, NJ
Boston, MA Ithaca, NY Reston, VA Utica, NY
Buffalo, NY Los Angeles, CA Rochester, NY Washington, DC
Chicago, IL Mtn. View, CA San Francisco, CA White Plains, NY
Pricing for the PSILink service starts as low as $19 per month for unlimited
dialup electronic mail usage. PSILink 3.0 software is available at no cost
to subscribers, and features a graphical user interface with windows and
pull-down menus. Wireless prices will be available in June. Also in June,
PSI will announce fifty international dialup access points in Europe and
the Pacific Basin.
PSI, headquartered in Reston, Virginia, is a value-added internetworking
services provider with a wide spectrum of services for the individual and
corporate user of electronic information. Services range from electronic
mail products to turnkey integration of local area networks into the PSINet
wide area network system and the Internet.
RAM Mobile Data operates packet switched radio-based data networks in the
U.S. and the United Kingdom with network construction planned for Australia
later this year.
Ericsson GE Mobile Communications, Inc., based in Paramus, New Jersey, is
owned 60 percent by Ericsson and 40 percent by GE. Ericsson GE designs,
manufactures, and markets cellular telephones, land mobile radio products
and systems, and Mobitex wireless data communications products and systems
for global markets. Ericsson also markets cellular systems in North America.
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