ALLTEL Corporation Selects Radiant Systems as Technology Solutions Provider.

Business Editors

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 26, 2001

ALLTEL looks to improve salesperson productivity and customer

service using solution built by Radiant

Radiant Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: RADS) announced today an agreement with ALLTEL Corporation (NYSE: AT) to implement Radiant's Point-of-Sale, POS Management, Payment Processing, and Consolidated Reporting products throughout ALLTEL's retail store operations.

The agreement with ALLTEL positions Radiant as a significant supplier of technology solutions to wireless communications providers.

Radiant will work with ALLTEL to integrate the Radiant products with ALLTEL's Customer Relationship Management System. The integrated solution will help reduce redundancy in data entry and enable ALLTEL'S retail store sales personnel to be more productive and more informed about their customers. "Radiant has developed best-in-class point-of-sale, cash management, and enterprise reporting capabilities. This solution will improve sales productivity and customer service by increasing the accuracy, timeliness and availability of customer information throughout ALLTEL," stated Dan Lohr, Executive Vice President, Sales and Distribution for ALLTEL.

Peter Reilly, Vice President of Consumer Services and Specialty Retail at Radiant, commented, "We look forward to working with an industry leader in the wireless communications market. The ALLTEL implementation demonstrates the ability of Radiant's solutions to help increase productivity, improve controls, and enhance customer service in a variety of markets."

Company Information

Radiant Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: RADS) is a leader in delivering innovative technology solutions to businesses that serve the consumer. These solutions include transaction-processing and management systems that support enterprise processes for clients ranging in size from multi-national to single-site operators. Radiant's mission is to use its technology to eliminate billions of dollars of operational and logistical inefficiencies from the markets that the company serves. Headquartered in Atlanta, Radiant (www.radiantsystems.com) also provides comprehensive client care and consulting services to maximize speed of implementation and the client's return on investment. Radiant's solutions are deployed at hundreds of companies worldwide and currently process more than two billion transactions annually.

Alltel Corporation (NYSE: AT) is a customer-focused information technology company that provides wireline and wireless communications and information services. The Company operates in two principal areas, communications and information services. The Company's communications operations consist of its wireless, wireline (local and long-distance) and emerging businesses segments. Emerging businesses are the Company's key new product offerings, and include the Company's long-distance, competitive local exchange carrier, Internet access, and personal communication system and network management operations. Alltel also owns subsidiaries that provide wide-area paging and information processing management services, and advanced application software along with telecommunications products. Another subsidiary publishes telephone directories for affiliates and other independent telephone companies.

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