LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 8, 2001--Metrocall, Inc. (NASDAQ:MCLL), one of the nation's largest wireless data and messaging providers, is demonstrating its extensive portfolio of wireless products, services and applications this week at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The largest show of its kind in the world, C.E.S. offers opportunities to learn about wireless communications, mobile electronics, digital audio and video, home networking, information technology, emerging technologies, and more. This is the ideal occasion for the highly mobile community and consumer retail industry to learn about several interactive wireless data and messaging products introduced by Metrocall during the year 2000.

"Two-way wireless data and messaging is one of the dominant themes at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas," stated Michael T. Scanlon Jr., Metrocall's senior vice president of marketing and communications. "Metrocall will be demonstrating everything from the highly successful My2Way service and MyeLink, to the @ctiveLink(TM) bundled with the Handspringª Visorª."

During the show representatives from Metrocall will be demonstrating the My2Way nationwide interactive wireless messaging service twice an hour at booth #16002 in the Gold area. Attendees can try the Motorola Talkabout T900 and Timeport P935 two-way devices, which are enabled through Metrocall's My2Way service, and enter a drawing to win a pair of T900s that will be given away at the end of every CES day.

My2Way is the choice of today's highly mobile consumer seeking immediate and reliable peer-to-peer messaging, as well as wireless connections to e-mail and the Internet. The P935 incorporates the Wisdom software that includes the messaging application, a note pad, address book, alarm and other functions, making it the right choice for the mobile business community. The Talkabout T900 service is a compact wireless messaging device that is ideal for today's active students and families. Participants who stop by the booth and sit through a demonstration of Metrocall's products and services will receive a gift for their participation.

In addition to My2Way, Metrocall is also displaying its PCS phone services, Glenayre's @ctiveLinkª two-way wireless messaging modules bundled with the Handspringª Visorª , and MyeLink, which uses the Research in Motion wireless device to provide a direct connection to your work or home e-mail. Together these and other services make-up one of the telecommunication industry's most comprehensive portfolios of mobile communication products and services. Metrocall's wireless networking capabilities are unsurpassed and include coverage in the largest 1,000 U.S. markets.

About Metrocall, Inc.

Metrocall, Inc. (NASDAQ: MCLL), headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, is one of the largest wireless data and messaging companies in the United States providing both products and services to more than six million business and individual subscribers. Metrocall was founded in 1965, became a publicly traded company in 1993 and currently employs approximately 3,800 professionals coast to coast. The Company offers two-way interactive messaging, wireless e-mail and Internet connectivity, cellular and digital PCS phones, as well as one-way messaging services. Metrocall operates on many nationwide, regional and local networks, including a new Two-Way Interactive Network (TWIN), and can supply a wide variety of customizable Internet-based information content services. Also, Metrocall offers totally integrated resource management systems and communications solutions for business and campus environments. Metrocall's wireless networks operate in the top 1,000 markets all across the nation and the Company has offices and retail locations in more than forty states. Metrocall is the largest equity-owner of Inciscent, an independent business-to-business enterprise, that is a national full-service "wired-to-wireless" Application Service Provider (ASP). For more information on Metrocall please visit our Web site and On-line storefront at www.metrocall.com or AOL Keyword: Metrocall.

Safe Harbor Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995

The statements set forth above that are not historical facts, such as those concerning Metrocall's advanced wireless data and messaging strategies, are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties. A number of risks and uncertainties could cause actual results, events or developments to differ from expectations. Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ are 1) the speed and extent to which markets for advanced messaging data and messaging services develop and grow; 2) Metrocall and its joint venture affiliate Inciscent's ability to develop and market products and services that respond to market conditions and customers' needs; 3) the impact of competition from other companies in the wireless data and Internet business; 4) the need to respond to rapid technological developments that could affect the commercial viability of Metrocall's and Inciscent's products and services. You should refer to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for a complete discussion of these and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in these forward-looking statements.