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USURF America Announces Agreement to Provide Wi-Fi Wireless Broadband Internet Access Availability to 6,000 Colorado Springs Customers.


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BATON ROUGE Baton Rouge (băt`ən rzh) [Fr.,=red stick], city (1990 pop. 219,531), state capital and seat of East Baton Rouge parish, SE La. , La.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 21, 2002

SunWest Communications to market USURF USURF Utah State University Research Foundation  Quick Cell(TM) services

to its Customers as well as to the Greater Colorado Springs Colorado Springs, city (1990 pop. 281,140), seat of El Paso co., central Colo., on Monument and Fountain creeks, at the foot of Pikes Peak; inc. 1886. It is a year-round resort and a booming military, technological, and commercial city.  area

USURF America, Inc. (AMEX AMEX

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) the developer of Quick-Cell(TM), a family of Wi-Fi-standard broadband fixed-wireless high-speed Internet See broadband.  access products, announced today that it has signed a three-year exclusive agreement with SunWest Communications, Inc., under which USURF America is to provide availability to its Quick-Cell broadband wireless See wireless broadband.  Internet access See how to access the Internet.  services to all 6,000 of SunWest's telephone customers in Colorado Springs, CO.

Under the SunWest agreement, USURF and SunWest will share Quick-Cell revenues generated from sales of wireless broadband Internet access services to SunWest's customers as well as market Quick-Cell service throughout the Greater Colorado Springs area. SunWest is to provide all wireline communications infrastructure - including the broadband back-haul connectivity - necessary for the implementation of USURF's Quick-Cell, as well as Quick-Cell marketing, installation, customer-care and billing activities. USURF is to provide the Wi-Fi standard Quick-Cell infrastructure, including the necessary fixed-wireless tower equipment and all customer premises equipment See CPE. .

"This clearly is a win-win situation for SunWest's existing voice communications customers and USURF," said Doug McKinnon, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of USURF. "SunWest's customers now will be able to surf the web at speeds up to 50 times faster than dial-up service, with one number to call for any service issues and one bill. This agreement is consistent with our expanded strategy of entering new markets with partners to expand our customer base more rapidly."

Headquartered in Colorado Springs, SunWest Communications is a competitive local telephone company offering local telephone service, long distance and enhanced communications services to approximately 6,000 customers. "With USURF as a partner we can now offer broadband Internet services not only to existing customers, but it also opens the door for us to compete in Qwest territories where broadband is not available," said George Coon coon: see raccoon. , SunWest Vice President. "We will now be able to provide a bundled service offering to both residential and commercial customers."

About Quick-Cell(TM)

The Company's proprietary Quick-Cell(TM) technology is one of the most flexible fixed-wireless Internet access solutions on the market, and features "always-on" access to the Internet. Its Quick-cell equipment meets all 802.11(x) standards and utilizes unlicensed 2.4GHz 802.11b spectrum and can be deployed far less expensively than other wireline and cable technologies. For more information about USURF America, please visit its Web site at www.usurf.com.

Information Concerning Forward-Looking Statements

Some information in this release is forward looking. These forward-looking statements may be affected by the risks and uncertainties in USURF America's business. This information is qualified in its entirety by cautionary statements and risk factors disclosure contained in certain of USURF America's Securities and Exchange Commission filings. USURF America wishes to caution readers that certain important factors may have affected and could in the future affect its actual results and could cause actual results for subsequent periods to differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statement made by or on behalf of USURF America. There are many factors that will determine whether USURF America will be successful in its Quick-Cell endeavors, including, without limitation, access to adequate capital, consumer acceptance of the Quick-Cell wireless Internet access products and the ability of USURF America and its business partners to provide timely customer installation services. USURF America undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof.
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