NextNet to Speak at Paris WiMAX Summit 2004 on WiMAX, NLOS and Interoperability.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

Paris WiMAX Summit 2004

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 25, 2004

NextNet(R) Wireless, the industry's most widely deployed provider of non-line-of-sight (NLOS) plug-and-play broadband wireless access systems, announced today that NextNet has been invited to speak at the WiMAX Summit 2004 in Paris, May 25-28. Charles Riggle, Vice President of Business Development, will speak on opening day of the conference on the topic of WiMAX, NLOS and Interoperability: Challenges and Solutions for Delivering on the Promise. Riggle will also participate in a panel discussion entitled, WiMAX Applications: From Access Network to Mobile Roaming?, along with Intel, Nortel Networks, and other principal members of the WiMAX Forum(TM).

For complete program details, visit: http://www.upperside.fr/wimax04/wimax04intro.htm

NextNet's Expedience(R) NLOS broadband wireless system is an IP-based network that supports delivery of all IP-compatible broadband applications. These applications include the delivery of both voice and data services such as IP telephony and video streaming and conferencing, over multiple licensed frequency bands, including 2.5 GHz and 3.5 GHz. Expedience system products address the needs of residential, SOHO, SME, and MDU markets. The flexible OFDM-based platform delivers consistent broadband speeds across NLOS cells of up to 30 km, using indoor, plug-and-play (self-installable) subscriber units, as well as convenient outdoor (bracket-mount) NLOS subscriber units. The Expedience base station weighs just 16 kg and mounts easily to a pole, tower, building rooftop or standard indoor rack.

About NextNet(R) Wireless, Inc.

NextNet is the industry's most widely deployed provider of non-line-of-sight (NLOS) plug-and-play broadband wireless access systems. The Expedience system is deployed today in cities throughout Asia, Africa, North America, Latin America, and Mexico, where NextNet is the exclusive NLOS plug-and-play system supplier for MVS Comunicaciones, Mexico's largest MMDS service provider with spectrum covering 67 million potential subscribers. In Canada, NextNet is the exclusive NLOS plug-and-play system supplier for the joint venture of Inukshuk, Allstream, and NR Communications. Inukshuk, a wholly owned subsidiary of Microcell Telecommunications (TSX:MT), holds the MCS licenses (2500 to 2596 MHz frequency band) covering 30 million Canadians. The Canadian joint venture is delivering NextNet's NLOS solution today in British Columbia, Nunavet, the Northwest Territories and Ontario, through several retail ISP partners, including Microcell, Allstream, SSI Micro and Nunanet Worldwide Communications. In the U.S., NextNet's solution is deployed by regional ISPs in multiple cities in Arizona, Iowa, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Carolina, Michigan, Ohio and Nebraska. NextNet is a principal member of the WiMAX Forum(TM). For more information, visit www.nextnetwireless.com. Contact: Barbara Heine, Director, Marketing Communications; [e-mail]; Tel: [phone].