FiberTower Provides High Capacity Ethernet Service to DSCI

SAN FRANCISCO and WALTHAM, Mass., April 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- FiberTower Corporation (Nasdaq: FTWR), a wireless backhaul services provider, has completed its interconnection to DSCI Corporation, Inc. and has begun delivering wireless Ethernet service to select DSCI enterprise accounts.  The partnership will allow DSCI to strengthen its footprint by adding more connectivity options and, most importantly, expand its coverage where no high capacity was previously available.

"We are committed to supporting new customers by leveraging our fiber and fixed wireless expertise in backhaul services," said Patrick Coughlin, FiberTower's senior vice president of sales and marketing.  "Targeting wholesale customers, we have actively pursed relationships with facilities-based communication providers.  We are pleased to have established a master service agreement with DSCI, a leader in the space, and look forward to providing transport solutions in its other regions."

This interconnection will allow DSCI to provide its next generation services around the Boston, MA area, plus the other 12 major US markets where FiberTower has established its network.  DSCI will begin delivering end-user solutions using this transport method starting in May 2010.

Rick Girardin, vice president of engineering for DSCI, said, "By providing a fixed wireless solution that meets our stringent criteria for performance and reliability, FiberTower has helped us deliver our entire product set.  Now we can provide QoS-enabled VoIP, video, and MPLS, when previously we had to qualify each customer for fiber access.  Each customer we deploy with FiberTower's solution has high capacity bandwidth that we can manage and by aggregating the traffic over a fiber interconnection, DSCI can gain access to the entire FiberTower coverage area."  

About FiberTower

FiberTower is a backhaul and access services provider focused primarily on the wireless carrier market. With its extensive spectrum footprint in 24 GHz and 39 GHz bands, carrier-class microwave and fiber networks in 13 major markets and master service agreements with nine U.S. wireless carriers, FiberTower is considered to be the leading alternative carrier for wireless backhaul.  FiberTower also provides backhaul and access service to government and enterprise markets.  For more information, please visit the website at www.fibertower.com.  

About DSCI Corporation

DSCI Corporation is one of the New England region's premier telecommunications providers serving business communities from Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. With its carrier-class network, DSCI provides both state-of-the-art IP-based services as well as traditional voice and data services. An employee-owned company, DSCI is headquartered in Waltham, MA, was incorporated in the year 2000 and serves more than 1800 enterprise customers.  For more information, please visit the website at www.dscicorp.com.

Forward Looking Statements

This news release includes "forward-looking" statements, as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 or by the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, in its rules, regulations and releases.  Forward-looking statements relate to expectations, beliefs, projections, future plans and strategies, anticipated events or trends and similar expressions concerning matters that are not historical facts, including statements regarding, among other things, our financial and business prospects, anticipated customer growth, and expansion plans.  There are many risks, uncertainties and other factors that can prevent the achievement of goals or cause results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements including, among other things, those risk factors described in the Company's Annual Reports on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, as filed with the SEC.

SOURCE FiberTower Corporation

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