Verizon Wireless And Allen Telecom Successfully Conclude Second Wireless E911 Caller Location Field Trial

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BEACHWOOD, OHIO and BEDMINSTER, NJ — Verizon Wireless, the nation's largest wireless carrier, and Allen Telecom Inc. (NYSE: ALN) announced today the completion of a second successful field trial of Allen Telecom's Geometrix® wireless E911 caller location system. Results of this trial, conducted in Washington, DC's Northern Virginia suburbs, were consistent with the earlier Verizon Wireless/Allen Telecom Geometrix field trial in Lexington, Kentucky, announced on September 25, 2000.

The trial continued a series of tests of the Geometrix system, which was designed to meet the Federal Communications Commission's Phase II requirements for more accurate E911 caller location information.

Geometrix location system equipment was installed in Verizon Wireless base station cellular sites to cover the trial area located in Northern Virginia's Reston/Dulles area.) The area is comprised of residential zones interspersed with low to high-rise office complexes, malls and a town center.

The trial established more than 2,000 data test points using the CDMA Development Group (CDG) test plan, also used in the earlier Lexington trial. Test locations covered a comprehensive array of emergency calling conditions, including from within structures of various types and composition, from various levels within structures, and from moving and stationary vehicles. All test calls were made from a variety of standard commercially available handsets operating in their normal mode and with their standard integrated antennas. As with the Lexington trial, only existing cellular network antennas were used and the network was operating in its normal mode during the tests.

Allen Telecom's Grayson Wireless President Terry Garner said, "I am delighted that the positive results of the latest Geometrix tests were consistent with the earlier successful Verizon Wireless trial, again meeting expectations for the product."

Ted Hoffman, vice president of technology development of Verizon Wireless said, "This successful trial is an important step as Verizon Wireless furthers its plans to meet the FCC E911 mandate."

The Phase II FCC wireless E911 location requirements go into effect in 2001.

About Grayson Wireless

Allen Telecom's Grayson Wireless division designs, builds, and markets the Geometrix system, a state-of-the-art, scalable, cost-effective, network overlay solution intended to allow carriers to meet the FCC's stringent requirements for wireless E911 caller location. Geometrix, which works with TDMA, AMPS, and iDEN wireless air interfaces as well as CDMA, supports the vast majority of wireless phones in use in the United States. Geometrix® can also provide caller-locating support for a wide variety of location-based value-added services and billing applications. Allen Telecom Inc. (http://www.allentele.com) is a leading supplier of wireless equipment to the global telecommunications infrastructure market. Grayson Wireless supplies measurement and signal processing systems for testing the performance of a wireless network, network-based wireless caller geolocation systems for E911 and value added services. FOREM supplies sophisticated filters, duplexers, combiners, amplifiers and microwave radios to an array of OEM customers. MIKOM focuses on providing repeaters, in-building systems and other products that enhance both the coverage and the capacity of a wireless system. Tekmar Sistemi provides integrated low power fiber optic and cable distributed antenna systems for indoor coverage systems. Decibel Products and Antenna Specialists manufacture land based and mobile antennas in frequency bands that cover all of the traditional wireless networks. Comsearch offers engineering and consulting services for wireless operators.

About Verizon Wireless

Verizon Wireless is the largest wireless communications provider in the U.S.with 26.3 million wireless voice and data customers and 3.5 million paging customers. The new coast-to-coast wireless provider was formed by the combination of the U.S. wireless businesses of Bell Atlantic Corp. and GTE Corp -- now Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ) -- and Vodafone (NYSE and LSE: VOD). The new company includes the assets of Bell Atlantic Mobile, AirTouch Cellular, GTE Wireless, PrimeCo Personal Communications and AirTouch Paging. The company has a footprint covering nearly 90 percent of the U.S. population, 49 of the top 50 and 96 of the top 100 U.S. markets. Verizon Wireless, headquartered in Bedminster, NJ, is 32,000 employees strong. Reporters and editors can find more information about the company on the Web at http://www.verizonwireless.com.

Statements included in this press release, which are not historical in nature, are forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements regarding the Company's future performance and financial results are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those set forth in the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause the Company's actual results to materially differ from forward-looking statements made by the Company, include, among others, the cost, success and timetable for new product development, including specifically products for 3G, E911 and power amplification, the health and economic stability of the world and national markets, the availability of capital and financing to the wireless carriers, the uncertain timing and level of purchases of both current products and those under development for current and prospective customers of the Company's products and services, the impact of competitive products and pricing in the Company's markets, the future utilization of the Company's tax loss carry forwards, the impact of U.S. and foreign government legislative/regulatory actions, including, for example, the scope and timing of E911 geolocation requirements in the U.S. markets and spectrum availability and licensing for new wireless applications, and the cost and availability of financing for customers of the Company's geolocation projects. Allen Telecom Inc.'s Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q contain additional details concerning these factors.

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