ALEXANDRIA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 6, 2001--Metrocall, Inc. (NASDAQ:MCLLC), a leading provider of office and campus-based wireless services, today announced that its Systems Applications Division will offer campus-based wireless solutions developed by Canamex Communications, of Markham, Ontario, Canada.

Metrocall will introduce Canamex products and services today at the Manufacturing Week 2001 trade show in Chicago, IL, where more than 50,000 professionals are gathering to review the latest products and services supporting all functions of the manufacturing process. The Metrocall Systems Applications Division can be found at booth no. 4648 in the National Industrial Automation area of the exposition at the McCormick Place complex.

Canamex introduced the QUIKTEL(TM) intra-office two-way communications system in 1989 and has progressively upgraded the successful line of products and services into the new century. The latest wireless data and information technologies can be integrated into QUIKTEL equipment, making it a strong partner for Metrocall's Systems Applications Division, which develops custom solutions for businesses, manufacturers, universities and healthcare organizations.

QUIKTEL Wireless is designed to deliver alarm messages and includes a unique text-to-voice functionality that broadcasts a canned message to mobile radios and telephones. Text messages, that include sender information and approximate transmittal location, can also be transmitted to large groups of end-users with two-way wireless devices.

"This relationship with Canamex is indicative of Metrocall's strategic direction that incorporates our nationwide networking and IT capabilities into a broad portfolio of on-premises wireless products and services," according to Nancy Green, Metrocall Systems Applications Division vice president. "Canamex is an innovative company that has developed solutions to onsite wireless communication demands that we believe prospective Metrocall customers will appreciate as they assess alternatives for their operational needs."

Metrocall's line of Integrated Resource Management (IRM) systems have recently been installed to enhance communications in several medical campuses, including Texas' Memorial Hermann Health Center, and at large campus-based businesses such as a North Carolina-based BMW parts manufacturing facility and Las Vegas' Suncoast hotel and casino. With onsite administration and locally installed transmitters, the product offers real-time transmission and monitoring to large workforces. Metrocall will combine many of its current systems capabilities with Canamex's innovative products. For example the QUICKTEL server complements the Systems Applications Division's current product line of centrally administered products and services.

"Canamex sees great value in partnering with Metrocall and together addressing the communications needs of companies and organizations in the United States," said Jorge Fernandez, president of Canamex. "For more than a decade we have updated our wireless products and services to keep pace with the latest technologies available so that our customers could benefit from the improved efficiencies. Metrocall has successfully identified a market ideally suited to our line of products and services."

About Canamex Communications Corp.

Canamex Communications Corporation, based in Markham, Ontario, Canada, has a successful history of innovation since its foundation in 1978. During the first decade of operations, Canamex provided turn-key systems for the television broadcast industry. In 1989, Canamex developed QUIKTEL, the first intra-office two-way communication system. In 1991, fueled by the new alphanumeric paging industry needs, Canamex released QUIKPAGER, a keyboard device used to send messages from the office. Since then, Canamex has sold over 65,000 QUIKPAGERs to the paging industry, contributing to the enhancement of paging services. Today, Canamex manufactures an extensive product line for off-site and on-site paging solutions, including QUIKTEL Wireless, a system that automatically converts text to voice for transmission to two-way radios and telephones. The QUIKTEL and QUIKPAGER product lines comply with the most demanding paging applications. Canamex Communications is currently developing new technologies for the wireless industry, paving its way into a new millennium. For more information on Canamex Communications products please visit our web site www.canamexcom.com

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" Applications Service Provider (ASP). For more information on Metrocall please visit our Web site and On-line store at www.Metrocall.com.

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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.