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Sprint and AT&T Wireless Sign Bilateral Airport Wi-Fi Roaming Agreement

Posted on: Monday, 19 April 2004, 06:00 CDT

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. and REDMOND, Wash., April 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Sprint and AT&T Wireless today announced a reciprocal Wi-Fi roaming agreement for Denver International (DIA), Kansas City International (MCI), Philadelphia International (PHL), Raleigh-Durham International (RDU) and Salt Lake City International (SLC) airports. This is the first roaming agreement between Sprint and AT&T Wireless for Wi-Fi service.

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Under the agreement, Sprint PCS(SM) Wi-Fi Access customers will be able to add Denver International, Philadelphia International and Raleigh Durham International airports to the list of locations available to them to stay connected to the Internet, access their corporate networks, or check e-mail via a Wi-Fi enabled laptop or PDA. AT&T Wi-Fi subscribers will be able to access the same range of services at Kansas City International and Salt Lake City International airports. The companies' respective customers will be able to roam using their existing user ID's and passwords.

"Customers will reap the productivity benefits of Sprint PCS Wi-Fi Access at additional locations," explained Wes Dittmer, General Manager of WLAN services at Sprint. "Wi-Fi is an integral part of Sprint's remote access strategy, and we are fostering customer productivity by providing multi- megabit wireless data speeds at an ever-growing list of venues that are frequented by mobile employees. Sprint is also pursuing other Wi-Fi opportunities beyond today's announcement, representing not only other airports but a variety of locations that cater to both business and consumer audiences."

"Through our own properties and roaming agreements, AT&T Wireless offers Wi-Fi access in hundreds of locations around the country to serve the needs of today's mobile professionals," said Jeff Bradley, senior vice president for business data offers at AT&T Wireless. "This agreement with Sprint will add important new venues and builds on our strategy of expanding Wi-Fi networks as a compliment to our national, wide-area EDGE (Enhanced Data rates for Global Evolution) network."

The parties expect to complete integration efforts and enable roaming at the respective airports as soon as possible. For rates and technical support to connect to either the Sprint PCS Wi-Fi Access or the AT&T Wireless service, please visit their respective Web sites at http://www.sprint.com/pcsbusiness/products_services/data/wifi and http://www.attwireless.com/wifi .

About Sprint

Sprint is a global integrated communications provider serving more than 26 million customers in over 100 countries. With approximately 65,000 employees worldwide and over $26 billion in annual revenues in 2003, Sprint is widely recognized for developing, engineering and deploying state-of-the-art network technologies, including the United States' first nationwide all- digital, fiber-optic network and an award-winning Tier 1 Internet backbone. Sprint provides local communications services in 39 states and the District of Columbia and operates the largest 100-percent digital, nationwide PCS wireless network in the United States. For more information, visit http://www.sprint.com/ .

About AT&T Wireless

AT&T Wireless is the second-largest wireless carrier, based on revenues, in the United States. With 21.980 million subscribers as of December 31, 2003, and revenues of more than $16.6 billion over the past four quarters, AT&T Wireless delivers advanced high-quality mobile wireless communications services, voice and data, to businesses and consumers, in the U.S. and internationally. For more information, please visit us at http://www.attwireless.com/ .

Forward Looking Statements

This press release contains "forward-looking statements" which are based on management's beliefs as well as on a number of assumptions concerning future events made by management with information that is currently available to management. Forward-looking statements may include, without limitation, management's expectations regarding: future financial and operating performance and financial condition, including for AT&T Wireless, the outlook for the fiscal year 2004 and subsequent periods; the outcome of our pending transaction with Cingular; subscriber growth; industry conditions; the strength of our balance sheet; our liquidity and needs for additional financing; and our ability to increase revenue, margins and operating free cash flow.

Readers are cautioned not to put undue reliance on such forward-looking statements, which are not a guarantee of performance and are subject to a number of uncertainties and other factors, many of which are outside the companies' control, that could cause actual results to differ materially from such statements. Without limitation these factors for AT&T Wireless include: the risks associated with the implementation of our technology migration strategy, uncertainty concerning the effects of our pending transaction with Cingular, our ability to continue to reduce costs and increase the efficiency of our distribution channels, the potential competitive impacts of industry consolidation or alternative technologies, potential impacts on revenue and ARPU from competitive pricing and slowing penetration in the wireless industry, the effects of vigorous competition in the markets in which we operate, the risk of decreased consumer spending due to softening economic conditions, acts of terrorism, and consumer response to new service offerings.

For a more detailed description of the factors that could cause such a difference, please see AT&T Wireless' filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the information under the heading "Additional Factors That May Affect Our Business, Future Operating Results and Financial Condition" and "Forward-Looking Statements" in its annual report on Form 10-K filed on March 5, 2004.

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CONTACT: John Polivka of Sprint, +1-972-405-5139,john.m.polivka@mail.sprint.com , or Jeremy Pemble of AT&T Wireless,+1-425-580-5997, jeremy.pemble@attws.com

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