Bryan, Were you aware that WFII signed a three year contract with ARTT on January 5?
Wireless Facilities Awarded Contract by Advanced Radio Telecom for Network
Deployment Services
SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 5, 2000--Wireless Facilities Inc. (WFI)
(Nasdaq:<A HREF="aol://4785:WFII">WFII</A>) announced today that it has
signed a three-year contract to provide Advanced Radio Telecom Corp. (ART)
(Nasdaq:<A HREF="aol://4785:ARTT">ARTT</A>), the first broadband wireless
Internet Protocol service provider (IPSP), with comprehensive network
deployment services in support of its build out of high-speed, metropolitan
area Internet Protocol (IP) networks nationwide.
WFI was selected as ART's preferred vendor to support its planned 40-market
network build out with full-service network development and deployment
services. These services include overall program management, radio frequency
(RF) engineering, fixed network engineering, installation and construction
management.
"ART has tremendous confidence in selecting WFI as our preferred provider of
outsourcing services related to nationwide deployment of broadband wireless
metropolitan networks," said Robert McCambridge, president and COO of ART.
"Our commitment to WFI expands the strategic relationships already
established with Qwest, Cisco and others, and will allow ART to accelerate
our build out plans."
The demand for wireless Internet access and other data services is
accelerating with the deployment of new technologies such as those embodied
in emerging third-generation (3G) standards. High speed fiber networks are
being integrated with wireless broadband technologies to deliver enhanced
capabilities and features to new customers and markets. ART is the first
company to integrate fiber-optic and 100 Mbps wireless broadband technologies
into a reliable, carrier-class quality, packet-switched data communications
network.
"WFI is playing a key role in fulfilling the growing demand for high speed
Internet access as the leading provider of wireless broadband network
deployment services," said Masood Tayebi, president of WFI. "WFI's
demonstrated capability and extensive knowledge of the wireless broadband
market will be instrumental in supporting ART's overall long term deployment
and operational plans."
About Wireless Facilities
A global leader in telecommunications outsourcing, Wireless Facilities Inc.
designs, deploys and manages wireless networks for some of the largest
telecom carriers and equipment suppliers worldwide. Specializing in network
architecture and dimensioning of mobile and high speed wireless data systems,
WFI provides a complete range of network services -- from business and market
planning to RF engineering, fixed network engineering, site acquisition and
development, installation, optimization and maintenance. Headquartered in San
Diego, WFI has grown to more than 800 employees and has performed work in 26
countries since the company was founded in late 1994. The company has offices
in Washington, D.C., Mexico City, Sao Paulo, New Delhi and London. News and
information are available at www.wfinet.com.
About Advanced Radio Telecom
Advanced Radio Telecom Corp. (Nasdaq:ARTT), headquartered in Bellevue, Wash.,
is a provider of local Internet Protocol (IP) services at speeds up to
100Mbps. ART currently owns and operates broadband wireless metropolitan area
networks in San Jose, Calif., Seattle, Portland, Ore. and Phoenix. ART has a
strategic relationship with Qwest Communications International Inc. (Nasdaq:<A
HREF="aol://4785:QWST">QWST</A>), which includes Qwest Private Line, ART
Broadband Services, co-marketing and co-location agreements.
ART investors include Qwest and a number of high tech investment funds
including Oak Investment Partners, MeriTech Capital Partners, Accel Partners,
Brentwood Venture Capital, Worldview Technology Partners, Columbia Capital,
Advent International, GE Equity, KPN, Sonera, Bessemer Venture Capital, and
Adams Capital Management. ART has a nationwide footprint of 38GHz spectrum
licenses in the United States, and owns 26GHz and/or 38GHz spectrum licenses
in the United Kingdom and several Scandinavian countries.
For more information, please visit ART's Web site at art-net.net.
This news release may contain certain forward-looking statements that involve
risks and uncertainties. Words such as "anticipates," "expects," "intends,"
"plans," "believes," "may," "will," and similar expressions are intended to
identify forward-looking statements. Such statements are only predictions,
and the company's actual results may differ materially from those anticipated
in these forward-looking statements. Factors that may cause such differences,
include, but are not limited to, uncertainties associated with managing a
rapidly growing company; risks related to effectively managing our
international operations; uncertainties related to hiring and retaining key
management personnel and engineers to staff rapidly growing domestic and
international operations; and risks related to our dependence on industry
trends toward outsourcing the types of services WFI provides and the
continued growth in deployment of wireless networks. These factors and others
are more fully discussed under "Risk Factors" and elsewhere in the company's
registration statement on Form-1 (NO.333-85515) as filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission.
CONTACT:
Wireless Facilities Inc. (WFI)
Kristi Weaver, 858/824-2929
info@wfinet.com
or
ART
Jeanne Snell, 303/771-1666
media@art-net.net
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