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MOTIENT INCREASES WIRELESS POINT-OF-SALE PRESENCE WITH

LIPMAN HANDHELD

Lipman’s Newest Wireless Handheld is Now Supported by the Nation’s Largest Wireless Data Network

RESTON, VA – April 26, 2001 – Motient Corporation (NASDAQ: MTNT), a network leader in the wireless point-of-sale (POS) industry, has recently added a new wireless POS device from Lipman Electronic Engineering Ltd. – the Nurit 3010 – to its nationwide digital wireless data network. The Nurit 3010 is a complete handheld solution for wirelessly authorizing credit card transactions.

The Motient^TM network is the first and largest two-way wireless data network in the country. Flexible protocols allow the network to wirelessly enable a variety of devices for a number of different business segments, including the wireless point-of-sale industry. The Motient network also provides some of the most secure wireless data transmissions available today.

“The wireless POS industry is an important market that Motient is dedicated to serving,” said Peter B. Belman, vice president of marketing at Motient. “Solutions for this industry are quickly becoming more and more cost effective and businesses are beginning to realize the undeniable benefit of being able to conduct transactions virtually anywhere. The high capacity and expansive coverage of the Motient data network, along with Lipman’s extensive tradition of excellence in developing wireless POS devices, is sure to bring subscribers and revenue to both companies. Plus, consumers will benefit from the convenience of using credit cards in non-traditional venues.”

Lipman has been developing advanced wireless and tel-line point-of-sale devices since 1974. The Nurit 3010 is Lipman’s third generation wireless POS offering. This handheld device is a complete and self-contained unit for wirelessly authorizing credit cards, debit cards, check verification, and other value-added card applications. It has a large back-lit display, thermal printer, 20 key keypad, and built-in PIN pad, among many other features.

“Enabling the Nurit 3010 on the Motient network is surely to increase its adoption by businesses,” said Mony Zenou, President and CEO of Lipman USA. “The Motient network allows users of our device to perform business transactions almost anywhere in the country. Through strategic design and development, along with leading wireless providers like Motient, we’re able to extend businesses to new areas by providing the most advanced wireless POS offerings on the market.”

According to a recent study done by the Yankee Group, the current number of users of wireless POS devices will increase by a factor of ten over the next six years to approximately half a million.

About Lipman

Lipman USA, Inc. (www.misteriodeobanos.org) is a subsidiary of Lipman Electronic Engineering LTD. Lipman’s NURIT product line revolves around the design and manufacture of advanced wireless and tel-line point-of-sale (POS) terminals and cash registers, betting and home services terminals, thermal and impact printers, PIN pads, smart-card readers, coin-operated or credit/debit/smart card controllers for integration into vending machine, commercial washer/dryer payment systems or numerous other card-type payment applications. Lipman continually strives to manufacture unique and sophisticated products that are: low-cost, simple to operate and program, systematically flexible being based upon well thought out hardware/software integration, and finally but not least, quality assured. The engineering development department is continually researching new concepts and has demonstrated its ability to quickly respond to the ever-present technological changes characterizing the field of data communications.

About Motient
Motient (www.motient.com) owns and operates an integrated terrestrial/satellite network and provides a wide range of two-way mobile and Internet communications services principally to business-to-business customers and enterprises. The company provides eLink^SM and BlackBerry^TM by Motient two-way wireless email service to customers accessing email through corporate servers, Internet Service Provider (ISP) and Mail Service Provider (MSP) accounts, and paging network suppliers. Motient serves a variety of markets including mobile professionals, telemetry, transportation, field service, and nationwide voice dispatch offering coverage to all 50 states, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and hundreds of miles of U. S. coastal waters.

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Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements in this news release are described in Motient Corporation's registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-42104) and in Motient's annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2000 and its other periodic filings and reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Copies of such reports and filings are available upon request from Motient's Investor Relations Department.