AirNet is Awarded GSM-1900 Network Contract from Pinpoint Communications.

MELBOURNE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 15, 1998--AirNet Communications Corp. announced Tuesday that it had received a new contract to supply "turnkey" Personal Communications Services (PCS) wireless infrastructure equipment and services to Pinpoint Communications, an independent telecommunications company who successfully bid in the FCC's PCS D-block auction as Cambridge Telephone Co.

Under the terms of the agreement, AirNet will supply and install a GSM-1900 infrastructure system, including an AIRNET(r) Base Station Subsystem and a TECORE(tm) Mobile Switching Center.

Pinpoint has obtained a license to provide PCS service in the McCook, Nebraska Basic Trading Area (BTA), an area of over 6,600 square miles including the counties of Chase, Hayes, Dundy, Hitchcock, Furnas, Rawlins, Decatur and Red Willow. System deployment will begin in the fourth quarter of 1998.

Pinpoint Communications opted for AirNet's world award-winning GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) technology. GSM, the leading digital wireless standard in the world, has been chosen by over 250 service providers in 120 countries and is used by more than 100 million subscribers.

"Pinpoint was ready to go with CDMA," said Richard Shoemaker, president of Pinpoint Communications. "But the economic impact of AirNet's GSM solution was too great to ignore. AirNet's economics clinched the deal."

Airnet Communications has developed a unique GSM infrastructure system -- one that provides wireless service operators with the ability to distribute network channel resources where they are needed. If concentrated capacity is required, AIRNET(r) Broadband Base Transceiver Stations (BTS) are deployed. If wide-area or highway coverage is needed, AirSite(tm) Base Stations, the world's first base station with free backhaul, deliver the lowest cost coverage solution available. This combination creates an elastic network, capable of provisioning capacity or coverage in concentrated or distributed scenarios with the lowest capital and recurring costs.

"With up to seven operators per market, wireless communications is becoming hyper-competitive," remarked Dr. Lee Hamilton, AirNet's president and chief operating officer. "AirNet's mission is to provide our customers with an unfair advantage -- the lowest cost infrastructure both in terms of initial and recurring operational costs."

"Whether competing for mobility, invading the wireline market, or targeting both simultaneously, AirNet's customers have the economic `upper hand' in this new era of personal communications," stated Glenn Ehley, AirNet's vice president of Sales and Marketing. "They don't just survive, they thrive."

AirNet Communications Corp., based in Melbourne, designs, manufactures, distributes and supports profitable GSM-based (GSM 900, GSM-1800 and GSM-1900) wireless infrastructure solutions. AirNet's products include the AirSite Base Station, the world's first base station with free backhaul -- winner of the 1998 GSM World Award for Best Technical Innovation. The GSM World Award-winning GSM-1900 solution is on display in Orlando at the PCS '98 Convention and Exposition from Sept. 23-25, 1998, Booth 1634.

AIRNET(r) is registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, AirSite(tm) is a trademark of AirNet Communications Corp. Other names are registered trademarks or trademarks of the respective companies or organizations.

CONTACT: AirNet Communications Corp., Melbourne

David Guggenheim, 407/953-6628