FORT WORTH, Texas- Uniden America Corp. licensed Motorola Inc.’s InFLEXion voice messaging protocol, the first manufacturing company to license the technology for advanced messaging devices, announced Motorola’s Messaging Systems Products Group.
“It’s our belief that voice capability will bring messaging into the business and personal lives of an entirely new class of end user,” said Tony Mirabelli, vice president of marketing for Uniden. InFLEXion “gives Uniden the best strategic platform from which to capitalize on this opportunity.”
InFLEXion first will be incorporated in narrowband personal communications networks. Paging Network Inc.’s VoiceNow product, coined as “an answering machine in your pocket,” operates on InFLEXion technology. People who dial up a VoiceNow number can leave a voice message the VoiceNow customer can retrieve and listen to directly from the message unit.
A handful of narrowband PCS licensees have committed to using InFLEXion. PageNet plans to be first to market with service starting at the end of this year and a full-scale roll out beginning early 1997.
Fort Worth, Texas-based Uniden also licensed Motorola’s FLEX one-way paging and ReFLEX two-way advanced messaging protocols. SkyTel Corp. launched a ReFLEX network last fall, and a number of other companies are building ReFLEX-based networks. ReFLEX provides users with the ability to respond to callers with a brief, canned text message or an acknowledgement that a message was received.
Uniden manufactures and markets a number of wireless products including cellular phones, pagers, satellite receivers and two-way radios.
