PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DATE: March 1, 1995
HEADLINE: FIRST HYDRAULICALLY LOWERED ATMS IN A MOBILE PLATFORM
BODY:
Mobile Automated Teller Terminal Systems, LLC (M.A.T.T.S.),
a Reno, Nevada
based company that designs and manufactures Mobile Banking Systems
for
financial institutions worldwide, is now offering a mobile ATM
System that
hydraulically lowers two lobby type ATMs, independently, to ground
level. Due
to their patent-pending, hydraulic-lift mechanism, it is now possible
to lower
these taller ATMs to meet the A.D.A. (American Disabilities Act)
requirements
for wheel chair access, in a mobile platform.
"In the past, the customer had to walk up and down stairs
to reach the ATMs or
a person in a wheelchair would have to get into and ride up a
wheelchair lift
to the interior floor of the mobile bank," explains Matthew
Fuller, Senior
Partner at M.A.T.T.S. "A bank could run into a serious liability
issue if
someone were to trip on the staircase and also had to pay an operator
to be
present at the mobile to operate the wheelchair lift day and night.
By
bringing the ATMs down to ground level, all the bank's customers
can use the
ATMs on the side of the mobile by simply walking up to the ATMs,
just like
they do now at a branch or a store."
This new side access technique developed by M.A.T.T.S. also
allows a bank that
prefers to use an AT&T ATM to do so in a truly mobile platform
for the first
time. "AT&T does not produce the smaller table-top type
of ATM that we offer
in our current System, yet we had several banks tell us that this
was their
choice of ATM at this time," explains Fuller. "It was
necessary for us to
design a mobile ATM System that could utilize the AT&T lobby
ATMs in order to
meet the requirements of these financial institutions". Fuller
also pointed
out that they do not recommend one type of ATM over another.
M.A.T.T.S. is currently fulfilling an order for two of these
new type of
mobile Systems for a large West Coast bank. As is true with all
of the
M.A.T.T.S. Mobile Systems, this new System is a turnkey product
that includes
all of the telecommunications, security, internal power and climate
control
equipment that is necessary to operate a mobile ATM System.
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For more information contact:
Matthew Boga, Senior Partner
Phone: (775) 425-5100