8th WCA Technical Symposium To Feature Keynote By Prominent Sprint Executive.

Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 25, 2001

The Wireless Communications Association announced today that its Annual Technical Symposium will be highlighted by a Jan. 15 keynote address to be delivered by James J. Hannan, Vice President for Network and Technology for Sprint.

He is also serving as Symposium Chairman, as previously announced. WCA's 8th Annual Technical Symposium, the broadband wireless industry's premier annual technical conference, is from Jan. 14 to 16 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, CA.

A 22-year veteran of the communications industry, Hannan has led the development and deployment of cutting edge broadband technologies domestically and abroad for most of his career. "We stand at the brink of enabling and changing the nature of broadband communications for the masses," Hannan said. "This best-of-the-best Technical Symposium will mark a new age for Broadband Wireless."

The annual WCA event gathers the world's foremost technologists in broadband wireless development and deployment and includes frequency bands from below 2 GHz to beyond 100 GHz into the Free Space Optical and other ultra-high capacity ranges.

Services enabled by the technologies include residential, business and educational applications that benefit from high-speed, high-capacity, such as broadband Internet access. The Symposium is now the world's premier exchange for operators and vendors to come together and chart the technical course for the industry at large.

WCA saw record attendance at last year's Symposium as industry leaders charted the technical dimensions of major rollouts for the wireless broadband industry. This unique event draws the world's executive elite in the technical and networking dimensions of broadband wireless.

Last January the Technical Symposium drew 1,150 registrants -- a nearly 500% increase from the previous year's then-record level of 235 registrants.

About the Wireless Communications Association:

Founded in 1988, the WCA is the world's principal non-profit trade association representing the broadband wireless industry. WCA's mission is to foster the growth of such services worldwide, including voice, data, Internet, e-commerce and video applications.

WCA's membership of 500 companies (up 90+ since Jan. 1) is comprised of the industry's leading carriers, vendors and consultants. (www.wcai.com)

About Sprint:

Sprint is a global communications company serving 23 million business and residential customers in more than 70 countries. With more than 80,000 employees worldwide and $23 billion in annual revenues, 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.

Sprint's award-winning Tier 1 Internet backbone is being extended to key global markets to provide customers with a broad portfolio of scaleable IP products. Sprint's high-capacity, high-speed network gives customers fast, dependable, non-stop access to the vast majority of the world's Internet content.

Sprint also operates the largest 100-percent digital, nationwide PCS wireless network in the United States, already serving the majority of the nation's metropolitan areas including more than 4,000 cities and communities. (www.sprint.com)

About Sprint's James J. Hannan:

Among his more recent accomplishments, while based in Australia he led the world's first national-in-scope, commercial deployment of voice, video and high-speed data services on an integrated Hybrid Fiber/Coax system.

He joined Sprint in 1999 and is now responsible for technology selection, system architecture, network deployment, integration and operations of Sprint's two-way MMDS fixed wireless access service - Sprint Broadband Direct. (www.sprintbroadband.com).