# RAM Mobile Data

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**RAM Mobile Data** was founded by RAM Broadcasting Corporation as American Mobile Data Communications, Inc. in 1988.[1] The name of the company was changed to Ram Mobile Data in 1989. RAM Mobile Data was the U.S. Operator of the [Mobitex](/source/Mobitex) network.

RAM Mobile Data was sold and renamed BellSouth Wireless Data in 1995 and later became Cingular Interactive when [BellSouth](/source/BellSouth) and [SBC Communications](/source/SBC_Communications) formed [Cingular Wireless](/source/Cingular_Wireless). The Mobitex division within Cingular Wireless was sold to an investment company in 2005 and became [Velocita Wireless](/source/Velocita_Wireless). Velocita Wireless was purchased by [Sprint Nextel](/source/Sprint_Nextel) and became a Sprint Nextel Company in early 2006. Today RAM Mobile Data is the exclusive operator of [Mobitex](/source/Mobitex) in the [Netherlands](/source/Netherlands). With headquarters in [Utrecht](/source/Utrecht) (NL) and a daughter in Brussels (BE), they are running the entire Mobitex operations throughout the [BeNeLux](/source/BeNeLux). Furthermore, RAM has a business unit RAM track-and-trace and since 2010 a daughter in IT services Ram Infotechnology.[citation needed]

Navara was a division of RAM Mobile Data until 2013, and provides mobile device interface solutions for existing applications and databases. Nowadays Navara is privatized and operates from [Driebergen](/source/Driebergen).

The [Mobitex](/source/Mobitex) in the [BeNeLux](/source/BeNeLux) was sold in 2018 to Entropia.

## Footnotes

1. RAM Broadcasting Corporation was an owner of regional paging companies and cellular companies [\[2\]](http://www.contextmag.com/setFrameRedirect.asp?src=/archives/200112/bookexcerpt.asp) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20060322000330/http://www.contextmag.com/setFrameRedirect.asp?src=%2Farchives%2F200112%2FBookExcerpt.asp) 2006-03-22 at the Wayback Machine

## External links

- [RAM Mobile Data Netherlands](http://www.ram.nl)
- [RAM Mobile Data Belgium](http://www.ram.be)
- [RAM Infotechnology](http://www.ram-it.nl)
- [\[1\]](https://www.entropia.eu/EN/Entropia-acquires-Mobitex-network.html)

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