P-Com's SPEEDLAN Chosen by Apral International for Large Hotel Project

P-Com's SPEEDLAN Chosen by Apral International for Large Hotel Project

SPEEDLAN 9200 to Provide Internet Service Infrastructure for Riyadh Marriott Hotel

CAMPBELL, Calif., Jan. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- P-Com, Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: PCMC) , a worldwide provider of broadband wireless access products and services to carriers, commercial enterprises and government agencies, today announced that its SPEEDLAN 9200 has been chosen to be a significant part of the internet infrastructure for the Riyadh Marriott Hotel in Saudi Arabia.

Apral International Group (AIG), a leading systems integrator headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, has purchased P-Com's SPEEDLAN 9200 to provide the Riyadh Marriott Hotel with internet service. The internet service will serve the hotel, its guest rooms and restaurants. Apral installed the products in late December 2004, with connectivity to the main building as well as outlying expansion buildings.

"We selected P-Com because of our excellent experience throughout the last several years with their products and services," said Eng. Loay Al Baba, General Manager Sales & Marketing for AIG. "We specifically chose to use SPEEDLAN 9200 for this application because its units are specially designed for the outdoors, which will eliminate any data losses stemming from long radio frequency cable runs. The SPEEDLAN 9200 also has a stellar reputation for performance in the frequency-crowded environments, like ours, due to its OFDM feature. In addition, SPEEDLAN 9200's quick deployment and easy remote monitoring and management capabilities, as well as its proven performance in high temperature environments, made it the choice for this project."

"We are delighted that our distinguishing technological advantages have allowed us to win new business in new end-markets," said Beth Kahn, Vice President License Exempt Products for P-Com. "Our superior engineering provides customers and end-users with a high degree of flexibility, which in turn allows them to use our products in highly strategic and innovative circumstances. We look forward to helping our customers and end-users discover new applications for our products, which we believe will help us capture additional market share in the highly fragmented license-exempt marketplace."

About SPEEDLAN 9200

SPEEDLAN 9200 is the next generation in self-healing mesh technology and gives network owners and operators enhanced capabilities to route signals around obstructions to deliver highly available wireless broadband services. SPEEDLAN 9200 delivers 54 Mb/s signaling rate at 5.8 GHz and 2.4 GHz utilizing OFDM and DSSS modulations.

About Apral International Group

Apral International Group (AIG) is a telecom and IT integration company headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia with other offices in Saudi Arabia in addition to many Middle East Countries. AIG was founded in 1990 and has developed a flourishing turnkey business in all of the Middle East. The principal areas AIG covers include marketing, distribution, sales and systems integration of IT, Telecommunications and Security systems. We offer, consultation, technical services in addition to turnkey projects. The turnkey solution offered covers the design, supply, installation, testing, commissioning, training and maintenance of the integrated systems related to IT, Telecommunications and Security. For more information on AIG go to http://www.apral.com/ .

About P-Com, Inc.

P-Com, Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets point-to-point, spread spectrum and point-to-multipoint, wireless access systems to the worldwide telecommunications market. P-Com broadband wireless access systems are designed to satisfy the high-speed, integrated network requirements of Internet access and private networks including Security & Surveillance requirements. Cellular and personal communications service (PCS) providers utilize P-Com point-to-point systems to provide backhaul between base stations and mobile switching centers. Government, utility, and business entities use P-Com systems in public and private network applications. For more information visit http://www.p-com.com/ or call 408-866-3660.

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Statements that are forward looking and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties may cause P-Com's actual results in future periods to be materially different from any future performance that may be suggested in this news release. Such factors may include, but are not limited to: the ability to achieve positive cash flow given the Company's existing and anticipated operating and other costs and current sales trends; the Company's cash position and its need to raise additional capital, and whether that capital is available on acceptable terms, if at all; the Company's ability to negotiate payment terms with its creditors, including its equipment lease vendors, and settle outstanding litigation; the continued intense competition from leading telecommunications equipment and technology suppliers resulting in lower average selling prices; fluctuations in customer demand; reliance upon subcontractors; the ability of P-Com's customers to finance their purchases; the timing of new technology and product introductions; and the risk of early obsolescence. Many of these risks and uncertainties are beyond P-Com's control. Reference is made to the discussion of risk factors detailed in P- Com's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission including its reports on Form 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K.


Source: P-Com, Inc.

CONTACT: media, Chris Toth of EVC Group, Inc., +1-415-896-2005, or
ctoth@evcgroup.com; or investors, Dan Rumsey, General Counsel and Acting CFO
of P-Com, +1-408-866-3666, or dan.rumsey@p-com.com; or Doug Sherk, or Jennifer
Beugelmans, jbeugelmans@evcgroup.com, both of EVC Group, Inc.,
+1-415-896-6820, for P-Com

Web site: http://www.apral.com/

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