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TruePosition and Cingular Sign National Multi-Year Agreement For GSM Location Solution

TruePosition's U-TDOA Location Solution Provides High Accuracy For Anyphone, Anywhere™

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. and ATLANTA, Ga., March 10, 2003 - TruePosition Inc., a leading provider of location-based technologies today announced a multi-year agreement with Cingular Wireless to provide a location-based E-911 technology for Cingular's GSM networks. The same agreement also states that Cingular has contracted to upgrade its existing TruePosition location system to the TruePosition GSM location product as well.

As previously announced in the Fall of 2002, TruePosition's U-TDOA location solution complies with the regulatory mandated standards. In testing conducted on Cingular's Wilmington, Delaware system, 67% of calls were located within 47.1 meters and 95% of calls were located within 112.2 meters. TruePosition has currently deployed over 4000 units in cell sites in numerous markets across the United States.

This multi-year agreement is designed to support Cingular with meeting the FCC enhanced 9-1-1 mandate. The FCC requires wireless carriers to provide designated public safety agencies with location information for 911 calls in accordance with the following standard for network-based location technologies such as TruePosition's: 100 meters for 67% of calls and 300 meters for 95% of calls.

"TruePosition brings a fresh perspective backed by years of experience and the largest body of location services intellectual property in the industry. Our technology is cost-effective, accurate and 'ready to use,'" said Kent Sander, President and Chief Operating Officer of TruePosition. "We're proud to be working with Cingular Wireless in order to ensure their compliance with the FCC wireless enhanced 9-1-1 requirements."

"Cingular is committed to meeting the FCC's requirements for enhanced 9-1-1," said Brian Fontes, Vice President of Federal Regulatory for Cingular Wireless. "We are building on our existing relationship with True Position to meet the federal mandate."

"Our location solution is compatible with all air-interfaces across all types of environments with all existing wireless phones," said Roger Pavane, Vice President, TruePosition. "Additional benefits of our highly accurate location technology include the ability to support future offerings such as commercial location-based wireless services."

About Cingular Wireless
Cingular Wireless, a joint venture between SBC Communications (NYSE: SBC) and BellSouth (NYSE: BLS), serves more than 22 million voice and data customers across the United States. A leader in mobile voice and data communications, Cingular is the only U.S. wireless carrier to offer Rollover, the wireless plan that lets customers keep their unused monthly minutes. Cingular provides cellular/PCS service in 43 of the top 50 markets nationwide, and provides corporate e-mail and other advanced data services through its GPRS and Mobitex packet data networks. Details of the company are available at www.cingular.com.

About TruePosition, Inc.
TruePosition, headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, is a leading provider of integrated wireless location products and services to both U.S. and international wireless carriers. TruePosition provides a suite of turnkey location technologies supporting the varying needs of wireless carriers and location service providers. TruePosition technology operates with all major air interfaces and is capable of locating over 95% of the world's wireless phones. TruePosition is a subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation (NYSE: L, LMC.B), which owns interests in a broad range of video programming, broadband distribution, interactive technology services and communications businesses. Liberty Media and its affiliated companies operate in the United States, Europe, South America and Asia with some of the world's most recognized and respected brands, including Encore, STARZ!, Discovery, QVC, and Court TV. For more information, visit http://www.trueposition.com.

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Michael Amarosa
212-301-2814
mamarosa@trueposition.com

 

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