December 9, 1998

For Immediate Release

(BW) (MOBILE AREA NETWORKS) Mobile Area Networks, Inc.,  has installed high-speed wireless computer network at Florida A&M University.

Business Editors/Computer Reporters/Academic Writers

ORLANDO-- (BUSINESS WIRE)-- December 9, 1998--students at Florida A&M University (FAMU) in Tallahassee now have total connectivity to the university's LAN (Local Area Network) and the Internet--all wirelessly, seamlessly and at breakneck T-1 speed. In November,  Mobile Area Networks, Inc., of Heathrow, Florida, completed installation of its wireless mobiLAN® service in FAMU's Science and Research building.

With laptop computers and credit-card-size PC cards, students can log on to the Internet or link up to the university's fiber optic network--even when phone lines, cables and modems are nowhere in sight. The students can maintain their wireless connections even as they move within the building and in the surrounding outside areas. In addition, special wireless adapters can be attached to desktop PCs to connect multiple users with each other.

Another feature of the revolutionary mobiLAN® system is its speed:  It transmits data at a blazing 1.5 million bits per second--also known as T-1 speed. A file that takes 6 hours to download with a dial-up modem takes approximately 8 minutes with mobiLAN® "I am very impressed with the system's speed," said Sterlin Adams, FAMU's technology chief. As more of the campus is outfitted with mobiLAN®, students eventually may be accessing the network, wirelessly, even from their dorm rooms.

"Florida A&M University is 111 years old, but it is getting equipped for the 21st Century," said George Wimbish, President of Mobile Area Networks, Inc. "With this technology, FAMU is far ahead of other universities and colleges."

Mobile Area Networks, Inc., (http://www.mobilan.com) is the first to offer high-speed wireless Internet, LAN and selected Intranet access for laptops. The company creates a bridge to the future for universities, hotels, convention centers, airports and other locations where computer users need fast, reliable and mobile connectivity.