Alexandria, VA., — Monday, May 7, 2001 — Metrocall, Inc. (Nasdaq: MCLL), one of the nation's largest wireless data and messaging companies, today introduces personalized traffic information delivered in real-time via the Company's advanced messaging and two-way wireless products and services. Particularly helpful in large metropolitan areas, the mobile service is a collaborative effort between Metrocall and TrafficStation, Inc., North America's leading provider of personalized traffic information via the Internet and wireless devices. TrafficStation's services complement Metrocall's wireless capabilities as the personalized alerts can be delivered anywhere, anytime of the day, giving commuters the opportunity to avoid roadway incidents and congestion.

Basic TrafficStation service will be provided free to customers who subscribe to My2Way, Metrocall's fast-growing nationwide interactive wireless messaging services. Existing Metrocall My2Way customers can sign-on to www.metrocall.com and go to the "Send a Message" page to apply for the service. One-way advanced messaging customers can sign-up and receive 30 days of the service for free. The alerts will subsequently be subject to a nominal fee for one-way subscribers. Via a TrafficStation user interface, customers will use a simple registration process to define up to 20 personalized routes with customized filter parameters such as time "windows" for receiving alerts and severity of reported incidents.

"Once again Metrocall is leading the way in providing value-added services to wireless data and messaging customers by teaming with TrafficStation," said William L. Collins III, Metrocall's chairman, president and CEO. "This kind of useful content represents the future of deliverables and is indicative of how our lives will benefit from the convergence of the Internet and wireless messaging."

"TrafficStation is a leader in real-time, route specific traffic information services and we are proud to be working with Metrocall to deliver this valuable mobility service," said Michael J. Snyder, president of TrafficStation. "This collaborative effort between two leading edge wireless companies will result in useful information

About TrafficStation

TrafficStation (www.trafficstation.com) is North America's leading provider of personalized, real-time roadway traffic information via the Internet and wireless devices. Featuring a robust nationwide reporting operation center, TrafficStation currently services 30 major metropolitan markets in the United States and Canada. With the most sophisticated and highly scaled information processing and technology platform in the industry, TrafficStation delivers traffic information in customized and integrated formats across all major distribution channels, including the Internet, Wireless, Telematics, Broadcast and Enterprise. TrafficStation provides traffic information services to several leading edge organizations, including: AT&T Wireless, BP Amoco, Microsoft, MSN Carpoint, ESRI, Vicinity MapBlast!, PeopleSoft, AvantGo, Openwave, Telus Advanced Communications, and Innuity For further information please visit our web site at www.trafficstation.com or call (213) 929-2000.

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 3,400 professionalŐs 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.

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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.