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WirelessDevNet.com Press Release
Wireless Technology Supports AMBER Alert Highway Network to Assist in Search for Abducted Children
WASHINGTON, -- QUALCOMM Incorporated
(Nasdaq: QCOM), a leader in providing business-to-business wireless platforms,
applications and services, today announced an initiative to help increase the
likelihood of recovering abducted children. The AMBER Alert Highway Network,
through a partnership with the National Center for Missing & Exploited
Children(R) (NCMEC), redistributes AMBER Alerts directly to truck drivers,
significantly broadening the audience of those who can watch for abducted
children. The new initiative has the support of the American Trucking
Associations, and the potential to add thousands of trucks and drivers to the
AMBER Alert Highway Network.
"QUALCOMM is proud to use our satellite-based mobile communications and
location-based services to work with NCMEC, trucking companies and their
drivers across the country to help locate abducted children. We encourage
fleets to learn more and join the AMBER Alert Highway Network so that even
more of America's professional truck drivers can participate," said Joan
Waltman, president of QUALCOMM Wireless Business Solutions. "We're honored to
help serve the community with our partners. There's no more noble cause than
the search for and recovery of an abducted child."
Initial members of the AMBER Alert Highway Network include Wal-Mart; Tyson
Foods, Inc.; Omaha, Nebraska-based Cornhusker Motor Lines, Inc.; bulk liquid
commodities carrier Distribution Technologies, Inc.; regional transportation
company G&P Trucking; Chattanooga, Tennessee-based U.S. Xpress Enterprises,
Inc.; national transportation and brokerage company Pottles Transportation,
Inc.; and tanker specialists Grammer Industries Inc. Combined, these
companies dispatch more than 20,000 drivers across the country every day.
Secondary methods of distribution such as QUALCOMM's initiative, which
delivers Alerts through the OmniTRACS(R) mobile communications solution,
assist in achieving the overall goal of the AMBER Alert program -- to notify
as many people as possible about a recent child abduction, and provide
information that can help in the search for the abducted child, suspected
abductor, and/or suspected vehicle and in the safer return of the child. For
drivers to receive Alerts through on-board communications solutions,
transportation carriers must be enrolled in the AMBER Alert Highway Network.
For more information about the AMBER Alert Highway Network and instructions to
enroll, please visit www.qualcomm.com/qwbs or call 1-800-348-7227.
The AMBER Alert Highway Network is similar to the Wal-Mart RoadWatch
program, a collaboration between QUALCOMM, NCMEC and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.,
which ensures Wal-Mart drivers receive geographically relevant missing-child
bulletins.
"Truck drivers have already proven to be a valuable asset in monitoring
the nation's roads for missing children. QUALCOMM's mobile communications
solution helps increase the reach, and therefore the effectiveness, of AMBER
Alerts," said Ernie Allen, president and CEO, NCMEC. "Just one driver knowing
what to look for on the road could assist law enforcement in the safer
recovery of an abducted child."
Each of the 50 United States has a statewide AMBER Alert program, as do
the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Since the program's inception in
1997, AMBER Alerts have been credited with the successful recovery of more
than 240 children.
NCMEC is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that works in cooperation with
the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Prevention. NCMEC's congressionally mandated CyberTipline, a reporting
mechanism for child sexual exploitation, has handled more than 365,500 leads.
Since its establishment in 1984, NCMEC has assisted law enforcement with more
than 117,100 missing child cases, resulting in the recovery of more than
99,500 children. For more information about NCMEC, call its toll-free, 24-
hour hotline at 1-800-THE-LOST or visit its web site at www.missingkids.com.
QUALCOMM has helped the transportation industry become more efficient
since 1988 when the introduction of the OmniTRACS mobile communications
solution provided transportation companies with an innovative and effective
way of managing logistics. Today, QUALCOMM is the industry's global leader in
providing high-value wireless data solutions, applications and services.
QUALCOMM has shipped more than 678,000 mobile systems to businesses in 39
countries on four continents. Processing more than 12.5 million data
transactions daily, QUALCOMM's Network Operations Centers are staffed by
trained professionals 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
QUALCOMM Incorporated (www.qualcomm.com) is a leader in developing and
delivering innovative digital wireless communications products and services
based on CDMA and other advanced technologies. Headquartered in San Diego,
Calif., QUALCOMM is included in the S&P 500 Index and is a 2005 FORTUNE 500(R)
company traded on The Nasdaq Stock Market(R) under the ticker symbol QCOM.
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