AT&T Extends Fleet Management Offerings With Trimble GeoManager

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Tue Jun 16, 2009 9:00am EDT

Trimble GeoManager Helps Improve Tracking and Management of Mobile Assets and
Workers

DALLAS, June 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AT&T* announced it is broadening its
fleet and mobile asset management portfolio with the latest version of
Trimble's GeoManager(TM) solution. This enhanced solution enables fleet
operators to significantly reduce operating costs by managing their vehicle
assets more efficiently, which can help lower fuel and maintenance costs. 

Trimble GeoManager offers companies with light, medium, and heavy duty
transportation and field service fleets the ability to track their mobile
workers and assets by utilizing the latest version of Trimble GeoManager
software and GPS modems running on AT&T's wireless network. GeoManager
provides an on-demand, Field Productivity & Management (FPM) solution that
integrates GPS, wireless data communications, and a standard web browser
software interface into a solution that helps manage mobile workers, the
mobile worker's work, and the mobile worker's assets.  

"Trimble GeoManager and the AT&T wireless network proved to be instrumental in
strengthening our customer service delivery and improving our operational
efficiency," said Randy Derricott, Director of Services at SimplexGrinnell, a
leading provider of fire and life-safety systems and services. "Since our
implementation of Trimble GeoManager we have experienced significant cost
savings in operating expenses of our 4,000 field technicians including fuel
and mileage. We are pleased with the results being provided by this reliable
mobile resource management solution."

AT&T has been working with Trimble for several years to provide companies with
comprehensive fleet tracking solutions. Trimble GeoManager now offers
customers an enhanced user interface with improved map and status views
allowing for more information at the customer's fingertips. Additionally, new
Landmark Uploads, WLAN Usage, Schedule Report enhancements, Driver Logs, and
Organizational Hierarchy improvements allow for easier administration.

"Fleet managers are challenged to reduce operating costs and maximize return
on assets," said Igor Glubochansky, director, industry solutions, AT&T
Business Solutions. "Trimble GeoManager helps remove the complexity by
providing a single point of contact to help deliver the latest tools and
technology to manage service fleets, ultimately resulting in helping to
improve customer satisfaction."

"Trimble is proud to work with AT&T to help organizations embrace mobility
solutions for field service automation and fleet management," said Rick Beyer,
vice president of Trimble's Mobile Solutions segment. "With improved real-time
connectivity and GPS tracking, fleet operators can reduce costs associated
with miles driven and fuel consumption, improve customer service as reduce
their environmental impact. 

Over the past several years, AT&T has created an industry solutions mobility
applications practice that is focused on delivering enhanced productivity
through real time information and location-based services to enterprises in
select vertical industries. Through its large ecosystem of alliances with
leading vendors, AT&T's suite of mobile resource management solutions covers
the flow of goods and services across the entire supply chain. 

AT&T has the broadest global coverage of any U.S. provider, with voice
coverage in more than 200 countries and wireless data coverage in more than
170 countries for laptops, PDAs and other data services and third-generation
(3G) service in more than 80 countries. 

Trimble MRM solutions are designed to automate the management of mobile
resources and to optimize the service delivery process for customers across a
variety of industries. Trimble delivers MRM solutions on a global basis to
vertical markets which include: Telco, Ready Mix, Field Service,
Transportation & Distribution and Fleet Productivity. Trimble MRM solutions
are designed to provide a secure, scalable, upgradeable, enterprise-class
platform, and are offered in on-demand software delivery, on-premise or hybrid
environments that can seamlessly connect mobile workers in the field to
real-time corporate data. 

More information about Trimble Mobile Resource Management solutions can be
found on the web at www.trimble.com/mobile_resource_management.  

For more information on AT&T's enterprise mobility offerings, please visit
http://www.business.att.com/enterprise/Portfolio/eb_mobility/. 

*AT&T products and services are provided or offered by subsidiaries and
affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T brand and not by AT&T Inc.

About Trimble
Trimble applies technology to make field and mobile workers in businesses and
government significantly more productive. Solutions are focused on
applications requiring position or location--including surveying,
construction, agriculture, fleet and asset management, public safety and
mapping. In addition to utilizing positioning technologies, such as GPS,
lasers and optics, Trimble solutions may include software content specific to
the needs of the user. Wireless technologies are utilized to deliver the
solution to the user and to ensure a tight coupling of the field and the back
office. Founded in 1978, Trimble is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif.

For more information visit Trimble's Web site at www.trimble.com.

About AT&T
AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) is a premier communications holding company. Its
subsidiaries and affiliates - AT&T operating companies - are the providers of
AT&T services in the United States and around the world. With a powerful array
of network resources that includes the nation's fastest 3G network, AT&T is a
leading provider of wireless, Wi-Fi, high speed Internet and voice services.
It also offers advanced TV services under the AT&T U-verse(SM) and AT&T |
DIRECTV(SM) brands. The company's suite of IP-based business communications
services is one of the most advanced in the world. In domestic markets, AT&T's
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in directory publishing and advertising sales. In 2009, AT&T again ranked No.
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SOURCE  AT&T Inc.

Melissa Mirabile for AT&T, +1-212-453-2327, mmirabil@attnews.us, or Janet
Wyles of AT&T, +1-908-234-6067, wyles@att.com; or LeaAnn McNabb of Trimble,
+1-408-481-7808, leaann_mcnabb@trimble.com
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