SOS Alarm and Unwire Sign Agreement
SOS Alarm and Unwire Sign Agreement Positioning, Security and Telematics Services to be Jointly Marketed Stockholm, March 13 -- Swedish-based emergency operator SOS Alarm AB (www.sosalarm.se) has signed an agreement to join forces with CellPoint (NASD: CLPT; www.cellpt.com) subsidiary Unwire to provide new services across Sweden. SOS Alarm provides a nation-wide rescue centre organization and has more than 25 years experience providing alarm services to individuals, public and private companies. Their centres in every county in Sweden are manned around the clock, all year round by 600 specially- educated SOS operators who receive approximately 16 million calls per year. SOS Alarm and Unwire will together market products and services for positioning, security and telematics. "Unwire and SOS are aiming for the new big market in telematics," said Thomas Stenbäck, Business Development Manager with SOS Alarm. "We have already tested Unwire's products for use with our Alarm centres and have started to market these products." SOS Alarm is already working with Europolitan and Telia, two of the Swedish cellular operators, so it will be possible for these services to be available to most cellular subscribers in Sweden. Initially, SOS Alarm will market alarm services for Unwire's GSM Server terminal products for telematics and logistics applications. Swedish GSM operator Europolitan will be the first operator in Scandinavia with the platform that supports these services. SOS will also market alarm and positioning services for personal security and vehicle security. "We see a tremendous opportunity in working with SOS Alarm," said Peter Henricsson, Chairman and CEO of CellPoint Inc. "We have developed complementary GSM telematics terminals and positioning applications which will surely add to the total suite of services our companies have together with SOS Alarm." Unwire AB (www.unwire.se) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of CellPoint Inc. Unwire develops and manufactures telematics terminals and is considered to be a leading company in the world for innovative telematics services. "At CeBIT in Germany this month, we had thousands of visitors to our Stand," said Michael Wallón of Unwire. "We demonstrated telematics services and techniques that are totally unique and for the second year in a row, we have not seen anything similar from any other company in the world." Unwire has two GSM Server terminals products, the UP 100 and UP 200. A GSM Server terminal has a software-based platform that can be connected to almost any device. In the terminal, unique software is written for each new application, such as in the Allhabo door telematics application and the PM-LUFT AB solution. The terminal connects to a serial interface and becomes the interface to machinery and other equipment. CellPoint Inc. (NASD: CLPT; www.cellpt.com) is a US company with subsidiary operations in Sweden and South Africa delivering positioning and telematics services in co-operation with cellular operators worldwide. Several commercially available services are based on the CellPoint System@ technology that uses GSM cellular networks to determine physical locations of cellular phones and Internet applications to present results and manage location and telematics services. CellPoint currently has the world's only end-to-end commercial service offerings for digital cellular location technology; it is fully scalable, works with standard GSM phones and WAP phones in unmodified digital networks, and can be co-ordinated worldwide from a remote central location. GSM accounts for more than 66% of the world digital cellular market with more than 270 million subscribers worldwide. Estimates for cellular phone usage are now at 1.5 billion users by 2005, with GSM accounting for two-thirds of the total market, and 600 million mobile Internet users by 2004. For more information, please contact: SOS Alarm AB: Thomas Stenbäck; +46 8 407 3016; www.sosalarm.se Unwire AB: Michael Wallon; +46 708 500 005; www.unwire.se CellPoint Inc.: +46 8 5449 0000; Fax: +46 8 5449 0005; www.cellpt.com; info@cellpt.com CellPoint and CellPoint Systems are trademarks of CellPoint Inc. Forward- looking statements in this release are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those projected in any forward-looking statement. Investors are cautioned that such forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainties which may cause actual results to differ from those described. ------------------------------------------------------------ Please visit http://www.bit.se for further information The following files are available for download: http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2000/03/13/20000313BIT00620/bit0001.doc http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2000/03/13/20000313BIT00620/bit0002.pdf