GE Healthcare Announces Exclusive Agreement with MobileAccess Networks to Deliver the GE Enterprise Access Solution for Hospital

WAUKESHA, WISCONSIN DECEMBER 21, 2005 — GE Healthcare announced today an exclusive, worldwide agreement with MobileAccess Networks to create the GE Enterprise Access solution designed to help hospitals roll out all of their critical wireless services on a common infrastructure. With the combined strength of MobileAccess technology and GE’s broad portfolio of wireless clinical products, services and consulting, a comprehensive hospital-wide wireless solution is now a reality.

At the core of the GE Enterprise Access solution, the MobileAccess Universal Wireless Network will provide seamless wireless coverage throughout healthcare facilities and simultaneously deliver a broad range of wireless technologies, including cellular, Wi-Fi, paging, and public safety radio over a common infrastructure. The two companies will continue to collaborate on enhancements to the GE Enterprise Access solution to deliver next-generation wireless offerings for hospitals including support for the Wireless Medical Telemetry Service (WMTS).

With this new solution, hospitals will no longer need to install parallel, standalone infrastructures to support their clinical workflows. Instead, hospitals can deploy a highly adaptive wireless solution that enables medical teams to deliver increased clinical and IT productivity through improved communication across the entire campus.

“We are confident that this holistic wireless solution will provide a new level of clinical communication within the hospital while reducing our customer’s investment and service costs,” explained David Ataide, vice President and general manager of GE Healthcare Monitoring Solutions. “Communication and continuous coverage is the lifeblood of any hospital. By combining the MobileAccess Universal Wireless Network with GE’s wireless-enabled solutions like the wireless Dash® portable monitor and other mission-critical wireless applications, hospitals can feel confident that their investment in wireless technology ensures improved communication.”

The GE Enterprise Access solution will readily adapt to changing conditions and easily accommodate new wireless applications. The MobileAccess Wire-it-OnceTM technology enables hospitals to cost-effectively add wireless applications and services without disturbing hospital spaces or disrupting existing services. The solution provides hospitals a platform that permits future services, reduces maintenance and upgrade costs, and ensures hospital-quality reliability and uptime. Coupled with GE’s existing product and services offerings, the GE Enterprise Access solution will provide a comprehensive portfolio of top-tier technologies and services for healthcare institutions.

“The combination of robust MobileAccess technology and GE’s industry experience makes this a perfect team,” said Cathy Zatloukal, president and CEO of MobileAccess. “Providing GE’s diverse array of wireless solutions over our cost-effective, universal infrastructure expands the market reach for both companies and empowers healthcare facilities to effectively communicate and deliver information necessary for diagnosis and treatment.”

About GE Healthcare

GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is helping physicians around the world develop new ways to predict, diagnose, inform and treat disease, so their patients can live their lives to the fullest.

GE Healthcare's broad range of products and services enable healthcare providers to better diagnose and treat cancer, heart disease, neurological diseases, and other conditions earlier. Our vision for the future is to enable a new "early health" model of care focused on earlier diagnosis, pre-symptomatic disease detection and disease prevention.

Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a $15 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 43,000 people committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries. For more information about GE Healthcare, visit our website at www.gehealthcare.com.

About MobileAccess Networks

MobileAccess Networks (www.mobileaccess.com) designs, manufactures, and markets in-building wireless network solutions that support multiple voice and data services and applications. The company’s Universal Wireless Network features an adaptive infrastructure that provides exceptional support for current (cellular, Wi-Fi, etc.) and emerging (3G, WMTS, LBS, etc.) wireless service and application needs. MobileAccess solutions, which have been deployed in more than 1,000 businesses including hospitals, enterprises, public venues and other large-scale facilities, deliver business-quality performance, scalability, security and reliability. They also enable customers to leverage their wireless devices (cell phones, BlackBerry devices, PDAs, laptops, 2-way radios) and applications wherever necessary to conduct their business more efficiently and cost effectively.

Contacts:

GE Healthcare
Ana Perez
262-544-3774
ana.m.perez@ge.com

MobileAccess Networks
Mike Collado
703-584-3304
mcollado@mobileaccess.com

Schwartz Communications
David Resnic/Marisa Dulyachinda
781-684-0770
mobileaccess@schwartz-pr.com