Central Wireless Partnership Launches RepeaterHybrid Network Coverage of Interstate 5 With Lucent Technologies and Repeater Technologies.

ORLANDO, Fl--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 24, 1998--Central Wireless Partnership today announced it has launched commercial coverage along a 70-mile stretch of Interstate 5 in California based on a RepeaterHybrid(TM) Network from Lucent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: LU) and Repeater Technologies.

The RepeaterHybrid Network, operated by the PCS carrier, consists of eight OA1900C Network Repeaters provided by Repeater Technologies and four PCS CDMA Minicells supplied by Lucent Technologies. According to Repeater Technologies, this is the first application of two CDMA repeaters in a series off of one BTS sector.

Additionally, Repeater Technologies has supplied its advanced RepeaterNet NMS(TM), giving Central Wireless the ability to monitor and access all of its repeaters from a central control center with a user-friendly graphical interface.

"Repeater Technologies has lived up to its promise of engineering for us a cost effective means of covering long stretches of highway. This deployment paves the way for the continued use of RepeaterHybrid Networks in the rural and suburban portions of our BTAs," commented David S. Nelson, general manager of Central Wireless Partnerships.

"The I-5 deployment demonstrates the feasibility of using RepeaterHybrid Networks to provide a novel design for the deployment of CDMA carriers where coverage is the driver," said Cindy K. Christy, product management, project management and product marketing vice president of Lucent Technologies AMPS/PCS.

Lucent Technologies recently signed a three-year sales referral agreement with Repeater Technologies designating the Over-the-Air 1900 CDMA Network Repeater as a solution for RepeaterHybrid Networks.

"We congratulate Central Wireless on its success in providing CDMA coverage to the California Central Valley and on its foresight in choosing a RepeaterHybrid Network design to accomplish their interstate highway coverage objectives," commented Ken Kenitzer, president and chief executive officer of Repeater Technologies. "We are pleased to have been able to team so successfully with Lucent and CWP in bringing to fruition this cost-effective CDMA solution."

Central Wireless Partnership is a coalition of companies with licenses for five BTAs in central California. It offers PCS services as Via Wireless in Fresno, Modesto and Stockton, Calif. The companies include Evans Telephone Co., Kerman Telephone Co., Ponderosa Telephone Co., Pinnacles Telephone Co. and PCS Inc.. For more information about Central Wireless Partnership, visit its Web site at http://www.centralwireless.com.

Lucent Technologies supplies mobile and fixed wireless communications systems that offer global service providers standards-based solutions for serving the information needs of consumers and enterprises. With headquarters in Murray Hill, N.J., Lucent designs, builds and delivers a wide range of public and private networks, communications systems and software, data networking systems, business telephone systems and microelectronic components. Bell Labs is the research and development arm for the company.

For more information on Lucent Technologies, visit the company's Web site at http://www.lucent.com.

Repeater Technologies, Sunnyvale, Calif., is a total repeater solution provider offering over-the-air and linked Network Repeaters(TM), RepeaterNet(TM) network management software and RepeaterCAD(TM) RF engineering design tools and services. The company invented the diversity option for over-the-air CDMA repeaters with a patent now pending and invented and patented linked repeaters. These innovative offerings allow wireless service operators to implement RepeaterHybrid(TM) Networks to lower their infrastructure costs.

Repeater Technologies currently supports more than 400 customers in 60 countries on six continents for the AMPS, CDMA and TDMA standards in cellular, PCS, wireless local loop and in-building wireless networks. For more information about Repeater Technologies, visit its Web site at http://www.repeaters.com.