Press Release

 

Sprint Adds @Road® to PCS Telemetry Services to Offer End-To-End Mobile Resource Management Service to Enterprise Customers

Sprint Certifies @Road 3G 1xRTT Data Device, Enters Into Reseller Agreement

OVERLAND PARK, Kan., and FREMONT, Calif., June 10, 2003 -- Sprint (NYSE: FON), which operates the largest all-digital, all-CDMA Third-Generation (3G) wireless network in the United States, and @Road (Nasdaq: ARDI), a leading provider of mobile resource management services, announced today an agreement that provides nationwide availability of @Road mobile resource management services via the enhanced Sprint Nationwide PCS Network. The combined offering enables mobile workers from coast to coast to communicate job, location and time-relevant information from the field to the back-office at data speeds averaging 50 to 70 Kbps, with peak speeds of 144 Kbps.

Under terms of the agreement, @Road will offer enterprise customers a bundled solution that is comprised of @Road's mobile resource management services and @Road's device with an embedded CDMA module that has been certified for use on the enhanced Sprint Nationwide PCS Network.

"Sprint is dedicated to providing wireless solutions designed specifically to meet the needs of the mobile workforce," said Phil Bowman, vice president of business marketing for the PCS Division of Sprint. "Our relationship with @Road provides Sprint business customers with a set of powerful mobile resource management service tools designed to improve mobile workforce productivity, increase the efficiency of field operations and manage mobile assets."

"We are excited that Sprint has certified the @Road 3G 1xRTT data device, and selected @Road as a complete end-to-end mobile resource management service provider on its 3G network," said Krish Panu, president and CEO of @Road. "We look forward to working with Sprint to extend access to mission-critical, location-based information to its broad and diverse customer base."

 

About Sprint

Sprint is a global communications company serving more than 26 million business and residential customers in over 70 countries. With approximately 72,000 employees worldwide and nearly $27 billion in annual revenues, Sprint is widely recognized for developing, engineering and deploying state-of-the- art network technologies, including the United States' first nationwide all- digital, fiber-optic network and an award-winning Tier 1 Internet backbone. Sprint provides local voice and data services in 18 states and operates the largest 100-percent digital, nationwide PCS wireless network in the United States.

 

About @Road

@Road (Nasdaq: ARDI - News) is a leading provider of mobile resource management (MRM) services, a rapidly growing category of productivity solutions integrating location technologies, wireless communications, transaction processing, software applications and the Internet to help companies better manage mobile workers. Any size organization, in any industry or public sector, in which improving the productivity of mobile workers has an impact on revenue, expenses, customer service and competitive advantage, will benefit from @Road MRM services. Because @Road offers MRM services on a hosted basis, customers avoid expensive and complex software and IT infrastructure investments. Since @Road delivers services using a pay-as-you-go subscription model, customers experience an immediate and measurable return-on-investment.

@Road delivers its MRM services to more than 100,000 mobile workers in North America every day. The company has headquarters in Fremont, CA, and secure networked data centers on both U.S. coasts. For more information, visit the @Road web site at www.road.com.

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Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this press release are forward-looking statements involving risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. Potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the ability of @Road to successfully market and sell products and services in connection with the Sprint wireless network, the infancy of the wireless data industry where there is no established market for @Road products and services, dependence of @Road on mobile data systems technology, wireless networks, network infrastructure and positioning systems owned and controlled by others, and general economic and political conditions. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in the @Road Report on Form 10-K dated March 31, 2003 and in its other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. @Road undertakes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements contained in this press release.

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