MobilePro Partners With Cox Communications to Offer Wireless Services to Arizona Governments
16 March 2006
MobilePro Corp. (OTC Bulletin Board: MOBL) announced today that it has been selected by Cox Communications to provide wireless services under its recent award of the Arizona state contract. The new partnership complements the companies' joint efforts to deploy the municipal border-to-border Wi-Fi networks in Tempe, Chandler and Gilbert, Ariz.
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As defined in the partnership, MobilePro serves as Cox's preferred vendor to provide Wi-Fi and wireless broadband services. Specific architectures include mobile/nomadic Wi-Fi, point-to-point, and point-to-multipoint high- capacity wireless connections.
Potential applications under the partnership include Internet and Intranet access for mobile government workers, video surveillance and streaming, Amber Alerts, location-based services and intelligent transportation systems. MobilePro will provide wireless infrastructure for redundant connections with wireless service overlays in areas where Cox's high fiber capacity infrastructure is not available or feasible.
The agreement gives Arizona municipality's access to MobilePro's services without an RFP process. Cox and MobilePro believe that there will be a significant increase in the wireless and Wi-Fi technologies throughout the government sector. This arrangement allows governments to quickly and effectively deploy wireless technologies, such as those required on short notice by the Department of Homeland Security.
"Partnering with MobilePro gave Cox the competitive advantage and demonstrated our ability to offer one-stop service for governments throughout Arizona," said John Egan, vice president of Cox Business Services Arizona.
John von Harz, vice president of MobilePro's wireless division, said, "This teaming arrangement and the statewide award gives further depth to our relationship with Cox Communications. It is a privilege to team with Cox, and we appreciate the company's endorsement of wireless transport and MobilePro."
About Cox Communications Arizona
Cox Communications, the nation's third largest cable television provider, is a multi-service broadband communications company serving more than two million residential and business service subscribers in Arizona (a service subscriber measures an individual service purchased by a customer). In the Phoenix area, Cox serves more than 1.7 million service subscribers in 23 communities. In Southern Arizona, Cox serves nearly 300,000 service subscribers in 14 communities. Cox's 15,000-mile hybrid fiber coaxial cable network throughout Phoenix and Southern Arizona provides homes and businesses digital television, high-speed Internet access, home networking, high- definition television and telephone service.
Cox Arizona offers award-winning products and services, recently winning the prestigious 2005 JD Power & Associates award for customer satisfaction for three years in a row, in addition to PC Magazine Readers' Choice Award for the third time. Local cable advertising, promotional opportunities and production services are sold under the Cox Media brand. Statewide, Cox contributes more than $10 million annually in cash and in-kind contributions to community-based organizations, including local youth and education programs, and employs more than 2,500 Arizonans.
Cox Communications is a wholly owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises Inc. and serves approximately 6.6 million customers nationwide, including 6.3 million basic cable subscribers. For more information about Cox in Phoenix, visit http://www.cox.com/phoenix , and Cox in Southern Arizona at http://www.cox.com/tucson .
About MobilePro Corp.
MobilePro Corp. is one of North America's leading wireless broadband companies, serving over 20,000 wireless broadband customers through its subsidiaries NeoReach Wireless and Kite Broadband. The company, based in Bethesda, Md., is focused on creating shareholder value by acquiring and growing profitable telecommunications companies, developing innovative wireless technologies and forging strategic alliances with well-positioned companies in complementary product lines and industries. MobilePro serves more than 220,000 total customer lines throughout the United States with a broad array of telecommunications services.
For more information on MobilePro's wireless group, visit http://www.neoreach.com or contact Karrie Rockwell at (480) 736-2926.
An investment profile about MobilePro Corp. may be found at http://www.hawkassociates.com/mobilepro/profile.htm .
For more information regarding MobilePro, contact MobilePro CEO Jay Wright at (301) 315-9040, e-mail: jwright22@closecall.com . For investor relations information regarding MobilePro, contact Frank Hawkins or Julie Marshall, Hawk Associates, at (305) 451-1888, e-mail: info@hawkassociates.com . Detailed information about MobilePro can be found at http://www.mobileprocorp.com . An online investor kit including press releases, current price quotes, stock charts and other valuable information for investors may be found at http://www.hawkassociates.com and http://www.americanmicrocaps.com .
Certain of the statements contained herein may be, within the meaning of the federal securities laws, "forward-looking statements," which are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the company to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. See the company's Form 10-KSB for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2005 and its Forms 10-QSB for the quarters ended June 30, 2005, September 30, 2005, and December 31, 2005 for a discussion of such risks, uncertainties and other factors. These forward-looking statements are based on management's expectations as of the date hereof, and the company does not undertake any responsibility to update any of these statements in the future.
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