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Western Wireless is First to Deploy Intrado's Position Determining Entity

NEW ORLEANS--March 18, 2003-- New Service Allows Western Wireless to Cost-Effectively Implement Phase II Wireless Enhanced 9-1-1 and Provides Platform for Location-Based Services

Intrado Inc. (Nasdaq:TRDO), the nation's leading provider of solutions that manage and deliver mission-critical information for telecommunications providers, today announced that Western Wireless (Nasdaq:WWCA) is the first carrier to deploy Intrado's Position Determining Entity (PDE) hosting service for Phase II E9-1-1 services.

Intrado's PDE service, which helps locate the latitude and longitude of a wireless subscriber, enables wireless providers to quickly meet the Federal Communication Commission's mandate for E9-1-1 while minimizing costs. This choice offers wireless providers a turnkey solution that alleviates the need for large capital expenditures to implement an E9-1-1 solution. Carriers can cost-effectively implement wireless E9-1-1 while laying the groundwork for future location-based services (LBS).

"Western Wireless' successful deployment of Intrado's PDE solution confirms our market leadership in implementing wireless location server platforms for customers," said Dan Hoskins, vice president and general manager at Intrado. "Western Wireless' decision to use our new PDE offering underscores their commitment to providing customers innovative technology and E9-1-1 services."

"Intrado's superior efficiency, quality of service and value enabled us to easily and quickly deploy Phase II E9-1-1," added Eric Hertz, chief operating officer at Western Wireless. "By using Intrado's 'hosted' model we were able to minimize costs and accelerate deployment of E9-1-1, ultimately increasing public safety."

Through alliances, Intrado's PDE service delivers deployment, application hosting, performance validation, and ongoing system support and management. Intrado(R) is partnering with TechnoCom Corporation(R), the leading provider of software, systems and services for implementing, optimizing and assuring ongoing performance for wireless location systems for E9-1-1 and commercial LBS services. To provide fault tolerance, always on availability, and precision location accuracy, Intrado utilizes the HP OpenCall PDE Frameworks and gpsOne technology from Snaptrack, Inc. -- hosted on the industry-leading OpenCall NonStop Intelligent Network Server. This HP solution has been deployed in most of the North American CDMA carrier networks to meet the FCC phase II mandate for E9-1-1.

Intrado, the trusted expert in database management, network transactions and notification technology, currently provides wireless E9-1-1 services to 24 wireless customers, including 12 of the top 15 wireless carriers. These carriers have selected Intrado to provide E9-1-1 services to an estimated 81 million U.S. subscribers as of December 31, 2002.

About Western Wireless Corporation

Western Wireless Corporation (Nasdaq:WWCA) is a leading provider of communications services in the western United States. The company owns and operates wireless phone systems marketed primarily under the Cellular One(R) national brand name in 19 western states. Western Wireless currently serves 1,159,500 customers. Learn more about Western Wireless at www.wwireless.com.

About Intrado

Founded in 1979, Intrado Inc. (NasdaqNM:TRDO) is pioneering the technology of Informed Response(TM) by providing telecommunications companies and public safety organizations with accurate, efficiently-delivered, mission-critical information -- enabling them to respond effectively, anywhere and anytime, regardless of location, device or protocol.

The company's unparalleled industry knowledge in systems engineering of complex, integrated data and telephony environments and critical operations management reduces the effort, cost and time associated with providing reliable communications information for 911, safety and commercial applications. Intrado recently received International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001-2000 certification. To receive Intrado press releases and company updates via e-mail, please register at the company's Web site: http://www.intrado.com.

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