Meteor Communications Receives a Strategic Investment of $3.75 Million.

KENT, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 3, 1999--

Meteor Communications Corporations (MCC), based in Kent, Washington, has received a strategic investment of $3.75 million from Campbell Scientific, Inc. (CSI).

The funds will be used to enhance and expand MCC's wireless packet switched networks for two-way data and messaging services throughout North America and the U.K.

MCC is the pioneer and world leader in the design, manufacture and deployment of wireless, packet switched networks using meteor burst communications (MBC) and extended-line-of-sight (ELOS) technologies. Network data is available on the Internet and enables customers to download data from multiple locations, manage and track mobile resources, and transmit and receive text or Internet email messages. Since 1975, the Company has successfully provided these wireless, packet switched networks to its customers throughout the world for applications such as environmental monitoring, automated vehicle location (AVL), and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems.

"Meteor Communications is uniquely positioned to offer its low cost messaging services to provide a key component in the growth of the long range data networking market," according to Russell Murphy, managing director of Vantage Capital Advisors, Inc., who advised Meteor Communications in the transaction. "Potential customers of data networking have been put off by the high messaging costs associated with satellites and cellular-based techniques. MCC can make many of the applications on the drawing board today economically feasible."

CSI, headquartered in Logan, Utah, designs and manufactures dataloggers, sensors and automated weather stations for measuring a variety of hydro-meteorological, agricultural and electro-mechanical parameters. "CSI's modern manufacturing facility, dataloggers, sensors and software application modules will be a natural complement to our operations and data communication networks," commented Don Sytsma, president of MCC. "Our mutual investment and coordinated efforts will offer customers better choices and greater value in meeting their remote data acquisition and telemetry needs," added Paul Campbell, president of CSI.

MCC and CSI are both privately owned. For more information on each company visit http://www.meteorcomm.com and http://www.campbellsci.com.