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WirelessDevNet.com Press Release
QUALCOMM Acquires nPhase, Leading Provider of Machine-to-Machine Solutions
SAN DIEGO, Nov. 16 -- QUALCOMM Incorporated
(Nasdaq: QCOM), a leading provider of business-to-business wireless enterprise
applications and services, today announced that it has acquired Chicago-based
nPhase LLC, a leading provider of machine-to-machine solutions that allow
enterprises to manage and monitor widely dispersed, fixed machine assets. The
acquisition of nPhase helps reinforce QUALCOMM's leadership position in the
evolving machine-to-machine market.
Machine-to-machine telemetry is an evolving category of business activity
that defines the interconnecting of machines with IT infrastructure and
mobilized work forces. Machine-to-machine solutions allow enterprises to
manage and monitor business-critical machine assets within two categories:
fixed machine assets, such as cellular towers, gas pipelines and assembly line
robotics; and mobile assets, such as truck fleets, heavy equipment and
transportation. nPhase's fixed-asset machine-to-machine technology,
experience and established customer base complement QUALCOMM's success in the
mobile machine-to-machine market and will increase both the breadth and depth
of QUALCOMM's enterprise machine-to-machine solutions portfolio.
"We are excited to add the complementary skills and technologies that
nPhase brings, and this acquisition clearly shows our belief in this evolving
industry," said Joan Waltman, president of QUALCOMM Wireless Business
Solutions. "QUALCOMM views this acquisition as a gateway to a new area of
wireless communications and machine intelligence, which also holds additional
benefits for our current markets."
Machine-to-machine solutions offer significant new opportunities for
businesses across major industries to compete more effectively by increasing
an organization's service levels, performance and competitiveness. This is
achieved by allowing users to access information, receive alerts regarding
critical situations, and control and manipulate situations on their dispersed
machine assets via a computer or mobile computing device.
Wireless machine-to-machine telemetry is part of the concept of smart
services, in which intelligence, awareness and connectivity are built into
products for a variety of industries, including transportation and logistics,
industrial and commercial manufacturing, healthcare, agriculture and food
service. The products communicate back to the enterprise's machine-to-machine
network hub via the Internet and report important information such as
utilization, maintenance requirements, asset health and other variables.
QUALCOMM has been a leader in machine-to-machine technology since 1991
when it introduced the first wide-area, wireless machine-to-machine
applications offered with OmniTRACS(R), the Company's first mobile
communication system for transportation fleet management. The OmniTRACS
system, like other QUALCOMM enterprise-class systems, communicates important
information about assets that clients can use to improve productivity,
increase revenue and enhance customer service. nPhase specializes in
fixed-asset telemetry, a complementary area of technology.
"This acquisition is an important step for nPhase and QUALCOMM because
both companies appreciate the significance of this evolving industry and each
company brings expertise and insight, that when combined, will provide better
solutions for the marketplace," said Steve Pazol, president and CEO of nPhase,
LLC. "We look forward to being part of QUALCOMM in offering machine-to-
machine solutions to customers around the world."
nPhase will continue to offer products and services under its own brand.
Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
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