Press Release

Globe Wireless Opens Louisiana Sales Office

Will Support Workboat Fleets in the Gulf of Mexico and Worldwide 

Foster City, CA (February 15, 1998): Globe Wireless, a maritime telecommunications service provider, has opened a Sales and Customer Support office near New Orleans, Louisiana. The new office is in a unique position to serve the expanding workboat market in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as throughout the world.

"With this addition we look forward to establishing closer contact with workboat fleets and their customers in the Gulf of Mexico," stated Richard Johnson, Vice President, Sales and Customer Support, Globe Wireless. "This market segment is important to us, both in the Gulf and throughout the world." 

Walter J. Kane, III Director of Sales for Globe Wireless has relocated to Louisiana to personally manage the new office. Mr. Kane has been with Globe Wireless since 1993 in technical, sales and operations roles.

The office is located on the property of Slidell Radio/WNU, one of the nodes in the company's Global Radio Network^®. The mailing address is PO Box 1749, 64399 Radio Road, Pearl River, Louisiana 70452. The staff can be reached by telephone at +1 (504) 863-2746, or by fax at +1 (504) 863-0805.

Globe Wireless, based in Foster City, California, is a telecommunications service provider dedicated to the modernization of high frequency (HF) radio for maritime applications. Their new service, GlobeEmail, is revolutionizing HF radio data communications by providing a reliable and affordable alternative to satellite systems. In addition, an entire range of wireless messaging - electronic mail, facsimile, telex, and telegrams - is available worldwide. The company operates the Global Radio Network of public coast stations with nodes located in Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Barbados, California, East Coast (US), Guam, Hawaii, Newfoundland, Louisiana, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa and Sweden.