Keeping their customer's needs in mind, Nextel de Mexico continues to innovate and continuously offer solutions that provide increased efficiency and productivity. Consistent with this approach, Nextel has introduced iLocator and iFollow location-based services, which automatically provide a GPS location, through integration of the Openwave® Location Manager Commercial Edition (LM-CE) solution and an integrated GPS chipset available on most Nextel handsets.

Now, business users can automatically and accurately determine the location of Nextel users:

Exact position: Utilizing the assisted GPS platform with a Nextel GPS-enabled handset when the subscriber has proper coverage and signal.

Approximate position: Utilizing the Nextel Network location system when the subscriber is indoors or unable to obtain a proper GPS determination.

In order to provide assisted GPS functionality in the iLocator & iFollow services, as well as new location-based services in the near future, NII Holdings is working with Openwave Systems to manage and control a robust GPS-based location service platform across several of its Latin America properties, including Nextel de Mexico.

"At Nextel, we seek to provide our customers services and solutions that make their work and daily activities more efficient. Working with Openwave Systems will ensure that our customers have the benefits of real-time GPS location information required to enhance their operations," said Carlos Ortega, Vice-President of Communication at Nextel de México.

"Location services are changing the way companies support and interact with their employees, thanks to business tools such as Nextel's iLocator & iFollow services. Employee location is a very important aspect of the business environment and allows for companies to efficiently assign activities and tasks to the most available individual," said Nara Rajagopalan, Vice-President of Products and Solutions at Openwave.

Openwave's Location Solutions
Openwave is a leading provider of high accuracy, end-to-end location solutions for both emergency and commercial location services. Openwave's location offerings power successful emergency and commercial services through market-leading deployments of Gateway Mobile Location Center (GMLC) and Mobile Positioning Center (MPC) infrastructure to mobile operators around the world.

iLocator & iFollow services can be easily activated with a few simple steps on Nextel's corporate website www.nextel.com.mx.

Nextel iLocator is a location service that allows real time location of Nextel handsets on a digital map. The benefits offered by iLocator include improved work assignment and enhanced customer service, which result in an increased productivity of field employees.

Nextel iFollow is a location and tracking tool that allows tracking of Nextel handsets on a map, with the ability to select timetables that may better suit a company's needs. Its benefits include improvement in operational efficiency and enhanced control of mobile field staff.

Nextel continues to offer superior integrated digital communication products and services to further meet customer business needs.

Source: Openwave