Omnisat plans to begin selling OrbComm services in early 1999. Omnisat's planned applications include fleet security and management, monitoring of distributed assets across Argentina as well as for personal and commercial messaging. OrbComm expects that the ground infrastructure will be licensed by the Argentine government this August and that the ground infrastructure will be completed by the end of the fourth quarter of 1998.

"The operating and frequency licenses in Argentina come as a result of the hard work and technical expertise of OrbComm's South American partners," said Scott L. Webster, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of OrbComm. "Argentina is the first country in Latin America to authorize OrbComm to provide commercial service. Omnisat and BGH are working closely with the OrbComm service licensee, DAMOS, to bring an innovative and cost-effective communications option to industries throughout Argentina, and we expect that option to be extremely well received."

"OrbComm will offer tremendous communications and security benefits to Argentine industries," said Marzio Laurenti, Chief Executive Officer of DAMOS. "By using OrbComm's network of satellites, Argentine industries will be able to continuously monitor, track and communicate with deployed assets, eliminating many of the costs and safety concerns resulting from assets being out of touch. Omnisat, BGH, DAMOS and OrbComm have combined their experience to bring this exciting new communications solution to Argentina."

"The introduction of OrbComm services in Argentina is expected to be especially attractive to the terrestrial and maritime transportation industries, as well as to Argentina's oil and gas industries," said Carlos Baylac, General Manager, Communications Division of BGH. "We believe that Argentine industries will view OrbComm as an enabling technology to help them lower operating costs, increase productivity and better serve their clients. We have studied the market and determined that there is a need for OrbComm's cost-effective and ubiquitous communications that will contribute to the integration of Argentina with the rest of the world, and in particular with the other countries of the Mercosur."

OrbComm provides two-way monitoring, tracking and messaging services through the world's first low-Earth orbit satellite-based data communications system. OrbComm applications include monitoring of fixed assets such as electric utility meters, oil and gas storage tanks, wells and pipelines and environmental projects; tracking of mobile assets such as commercial vehicles, trailers, rail cars, heavy equipment, fishing vessels, barges and government assets; and messaging services for consumers and commercial and government entities.

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