SkyTel names Michael Lang vice president of marketing

Business Wire, July 10, 1996

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 10, 1996--SkyTel Corp., a subsidiary of Mtel (NASDAQ: MTEL), today named Michael Lang as the company's new vice president of marketing.

Lang joins SkyTel from Sony Wireless Telecommunications Co., a division of Sony Electronics, where he was vice president and general manager of Sony/QUALCOMM CDMA sales, as well as vice president of marketing. Prior to these positions, Lang served as vice president of telecommunications products within the consumer products group of Sony.

"Mike's experience working with our consumer products group to craft the SkyTel/Sony retail partnership, as well as his extensive marketing background, will provide significant benefits to SkyTel," said Ray O'Brien, senior vice president of sales and marketing, SkyTel Corp. "We are excited about Mike joining our SkyTel team and look forward to his contribution to SkyTel's continued success."

SkyTel Corporation, the leading brand in global wireless paging and messaging, provides paging and advanced messaging services, including wireless Internet messaging, in thousands of cities worldwide. SkyTel introduced the first-ever alphanumeric one-way service, as well as the first two-way paging and messaging service, which allows users to respond to messages directly from their pager. Based in Washington, D.C., SkyTel is a subsidiary of Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp., Jackson, Mississippi (NASDAQ: MTEL), the pioneer in wireless messaging technology. SkyTel's World Wide Web home page can be reached at http://www.skytel.com.

CONTACT: Mtel

Anne Marie Potts, 601/944-7488, apotts@mtel.com