Companies Cut Wireless Costs and Streamline Administrative Processes; Digital Reliance MobileManager is Turnkey Solution.

Business Editors & Technology Writers

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 9, 2002

Today, Digital Reliance Incorporated, provider of the world's leading applications for managing business wireless and optimizing cellular rates, announced agreements with three new customers; Agilera, Inc., DaVita, Inc. and Fountain View, Inc.

"These new customers join the growing list of business organizations who are achieving significant cost reductions in wireless with the carriers they already use," stated Brick Thompson, CEO of Digital Reliance. "MobileManager is a turnkey solution for enterprise organizations to integrate billing from the multiple wireless carriers they use into a single management application -- an application that lowers expense and reduces the fees paid to carriers."

DaVita (NYSE:DVA) operates the no. 2 U.S. chain of dialysis centers with nearly 500 locations in more than 30 states, as well as inpatient dialysis services in more than 275 hospitals. Agilera specializes in providing enterprise applications (including software from companies such as Oracle, PeopleSoft, and J.D. Edwards) and also provides software applications hosting and management, as well as professional services. Fountain View operates more than 50 skilled nursing facilities and six assisted-living centers in Arizona, California, and Texas to provide subacute specialty care, including dialysis, chemotherapy, tracheotomy, and ventilator care.

"The key to reducing wireless costs lies in patent-pending Rate Optimization Technology. This technology analyzes every single wireless phone call to match users with the best single plan from the thousands available in the marketplace. With typical savings exceeding 20%, Digital Reliance is helping business organizations using hundreds or thousands of phones to experience dramatic cost reductions," noted Mr. Thompson.

About Digital Reliance

Digital Reliance, Inc. provides applications for wireless communications rate optimization and ongoing management services. Patent-pending Rate Optimization Technology(SM) yields savings of more than 20 percent on cellular expenses -- without changing carriers or phone numbers. By integrating billing data and rate plans from multiple carriers into a unified management system, businesses are able to most effectively control wireless usage, costs and planning. Customers include: EchoStar Communications Corporation; Swift Transportation Company, Incorporated; and The Ryland Group, Incorporated. Digital Reliance was founded in January 2000 by visionary telecommunications executives and service leaders committed to developing and deploying the world's leading applications for wireless management. Digital Reliance is a portfolio company of Denver-based iSherpa Capital, and Boston-based Megunticook Management, Inc. For more information visit www.digitalreliance.com.