Mac-Gray - a Leading Commercial Laundry Services Provider - Relies on Sprint and ActSoft to Track Rolling Stock

2009年 07月 14日 22:00 JST
 
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OVERLAND PARK, Kan.--(Business Wire)--
Sprint (NYSE:S) and Mac-Gray Corporation (NYSE:TUC) today announced completion
of the implementation to equip 600+ Mac-Gray vehicles with devices that combine
the Sprint data network mobility solution with the additional
productivity-enhancements of real-time tracking and time reporting provided by
Sprint partner Actsoft. 

Using Motorola i365s handsets and Actsoft Comet Tracker, Mac-Gray gains the
ability to track and manage vehicles and mobile worker time reporting as it
serves over 85,000 customer locations. The capability has been implemented at
all 28 of Mac-Gray`s branches nationwide. Mac-Gray serves the laundry needs of
academic institutions, multi-family housing properties, laundromats, on-premises
laundries, military and government facilities and hotels and motels. 

In addition to the 600 new handsets that use Actsoft Comet Tracker, Mac-Gray has
renewed an existing agreement with Sprint for another 780 handsets already
operating on Sprint`s Nextel National Network. 

"After a trial in one of our key branches, we decided this GPS and time
management solution could help us achieve greater productivity in all our
branches," said Mike Lento, vice president of corporate operations, Mac-Gray.
"The ability to track our vehicles in real time and monitor their location 24/7
saves time, reduces fuel consumption and eliminates unauthorized vehicle use.
Mac-Gray also uses the tracking capability to monitor use of its vehicles after
drivers take them home, which further reduces maintenance and fuel consumption.
The ability of our drivers to clock in and out remotely reduces paperwork and
improves time reporting accuracy." 

John Dupree, vice president - Enterprise & Federal, Sprint said, "Mac-Gray has
shown how an enterprise can build on the value of instant communications with an
effective and productivity-enhancing GPS capability. 

Sprint is pleased to team with Actsoft to help Mac-Gray arrive at an innovative
solution." 

Sprint serves Mac-Gray through its newly formed Business Markets Group (BMG).
Composed of more than 4,000 sales, support, marketing and operations personnel,
Sprint`s BMG is dedicated solely to enterprise, general business and public
sector customers. BMG offers a unique combination of 3G and 4G technologies and
applications, including integrated wireless-wireline services. The Sprint BMG
unit delivers wireless, wireline and converged solutions for companies, drawing
on the nation`s most dependable 3G mobile broadband network,*,the fastest
national push-to-talk network (based on call setup), and a comprehensive
solutions portfolio of devices and applications. 

About Sprint Nextel

Sprint Nextel offers a comprehensive range of wireless and wireline
communications services bringing the freedom of mobility to consumers,
businesses and government users. Sprint Nextel is widely recognized for
developing, engineering and deploying innovative technologies, including two
wireless networks serving more than 49 million customers at the end of the first
quarter of 2009; industry-leading mobile data services; instant national and
international push-to-talk capabilities; and a global Tier 1 Internet backbone.
For more information, visit www.sprint.com. 

About Mac-Gray Corporation

Founded in 1927, Mac-Gray derives its revenue principally through the
contracting of debit-card- and coin-operated laundry facilities in multi-unit
housing facilities such as apartment buildings, college and university residence
halls, condominiums and public housing complexes. Mac-Gray manages approximately
80,000 laundry rooms located in 43 states and the District of Columbia. 

Mac-Gray also sells, services and leases commercial laundry equipment to
commercial laundromats and institutions through its product sales division. This
division also includes Mac-Gray's MicroFridge(R) business, where Mac-Gray sells
its proprietary MicroFridge(R) line of products, which are combination
refrigerators/freezers/microwave ovens utilizing innovative Safe Plug circuitry.
MicroFridge(R) and Maytag products bear the ENERGY STAR(R) designation. To learn
more about Mac-Gray, visit the Company's website at www.macgray.com. 

LaundryView(R), MicroFridge(R) and Intelligent Laundry(R) Systems are registered
trademarks of Mac-Gray Corporation. All other product names, service marks and
trademarks mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective owners. 

* "Dependable" based on independent, third-party drive tests for 3G data
connection success, session reliability and signal strength for the top 50 most
populous markets from January 2008 to February 2009. 





Sprint
Mary Kunkel, 703-433-3060
Mary.Kunkel@sprint.com
or
Mac-Gray
Sheffield Halsey, 781-487-7600
shalsey@macgray.com



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