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AccuWeather to Provide Next Generation Weather Content to ALLTEL State-of-the-art Application to be featured on ALLTEL's Axcess service STATE COLLEGE, PA, July 8, 2003 -- In an agreement announced today, AccuWeather.com, (www.accuweather.com) Web site of AccuWeather, Inc., the world's leading commercial weather service, announced that it has been selected by ALLTEL (NYSE: AT), the nation's seventh-largest wireless telephone company, to deliver its award-winning BREW(tm)-enabled wireless weather application featuring "zoomable" radar to its 7.7 million wireless customers throughout the country. As part of the agreement, the AccuWeather application, which is based on QUALCOMM's Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless(tm) (BREW) platform, will become one of the featured multimedia applications on ALLTEL's Axcess, its suite of wireless data services. Axcess Apps, ALLTEL's downloadable applications service, connects users to cutting-edge applications where they can access games, e-mail, picture-sharing, ringtones and a variety of unique tools that can be downloaded directly to a wireless phone. "This new agreement with ALLTEL underscores AccuWeather's position as the leading supplier of weather content and information to the wireless industry," says Jim Candor, AccuWeather Senior Vice President of New Media. "With ALLTEL offering our new application to nearly 8 million wireless customers, AccuWeather's innovative content continues to set the standard for graphically rich, accurate weather forecasts for wireless carriers and cell phone manufacturers across the nation." ALLTEL phones that are Axcess Apps-capable, including the Kyocera 3225, the Motorola T720 and the Toshiba CDM 9500, will have the ability to download AccuWeather's application, which is the first BREW-enabled weather application to offer "zoomable" and animated radar imagery for wireless phones. The technology delivers rich, weather forecasts and images to the latest handsets. The AccuWeather application will feature pinpointed 10-day local forecasts updated four times daily; detailed Hour-by-Hour(tm) Forecasts; rain, snow and ice forecasts, including probability, type and likely inches of precipitation; regional and national Satellite Imagery, updated hourly; and "zoomable" radar animations for local, metro, state and regional, which will show weather fronts on the move. Consumers can watch storms on the radar screen sweep across their wireless handset and zoom in and out on the radar - to view specific areas, their city, region or state views - and see with pinpointed detail exactly what weather will threaten their area. The application also features AccuWeather.com's patent-pending RealFeel Temperature(tm), which gives a more accurate measurement of what the temperature actually feels like based on seven different weather variables. For more information about AccuWeather and AccuWeather.com's Wireless Applications, please contact Tony DeFazio or Katie Miller, of Gregory FCA Communications, at 610-642-8253. About AccuWeather and AccuWeather.com AccuWeather, Simply The Most Accurate, provides a portfolio of products and services through the airwaves, via the Internet, in print, and behind the scenes that benefit hundreds of millions of people worldwide. AccuWeather services 18,000 paying customers in media, business, government and institutions, and millions more through AccuWeather.com. AccuWeather also provides content onto more than 600 Internet sites including CNN Interactive, ABC's owned and operated stations, The Associated Press, The Washington Post and The New York Times.