ALEXANDRIA, Va.--(BW HealthWire)--Jan. 30, 2001--Metrocall, Inc. (Nasdaq:MCLL), one of the nation's largest wireless data and messaging companies, announced today that it has been chosen to provide two-way communication solutions to Star Anesthesia, of San Antonio, TX.

Metrocall's My2Way service will support the important internal communications logistics of an organization comprised of more than 80 physicians located among 19 hospitals and five divisions.

Metrocall is the leading choice of the healthcare community nationwide, providing one and two-way wireless communications services to hospitals and medical campuses. With the advent of advanced messaging and two-way wireless services, medical data and critical messages can be transferred directly to physicians, lab staff, nurses and administrative personnel in real time.

"Perhaps no other medical responsibilities are as sensitive as those undertaken on a daily basis by anesthesiologists," stated William L. Collins III, Metrocall's chairman, president and CEO. "With Metrocall's unsurpassed two-way coverage, physicians can receive important alerts and communicate with their colleagues without being distracted from the critical tasks at hand."

More than 4,000 major hospitals, clinics, medical and healthcare facilities nationally are now Metrocall subscribers utilizing Integrated Resource Management (IRM) systems, and hundreds of thousands of wireless data and messaging devices as well as cellular and digital PCS phones.

In addition to Star Anesthesia, Metrocall also provides wireless communications services to Texas Children's Hospital and Houston's Memorial Hermann Health Center.

About Star Anesthesia

Star Anesthesia, P.A. is a physician medical group that provides anesthesia services throughout San Antonio and several regional medical facilities. Star Anesthesia is comprised of more than 80 physicians operating from five divisions to provide anesthesia. The physician group provides anesthesiologists to each hospital and ambulatory surgery center in the community.

About Metrocall, Inc .

Metrocall, Inc. 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 3,500 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 store at www.metrocall.com or call 800/800-2337 x6500.

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.