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Western Wireless to extend network under T-Mobile agreement

BELLEVUE, Wash.-T-Mobile USA Inc. reported that under its recently signed roaming agreement with Western Wireless Corp., the rural operator will build out a GSM/GPRS network covering approximately 4 million people and 5,500 highway miles using 1.9 GHz licenses supplied by T-Mobile USA.

The network will include coverage in Idaho, Utah, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Iowa.

In addition, T-Mobile USA extended a previously announced roaming agreement with Cingular Wireless L.L.C. until 2006.
Financial terms of the agreement were not released.

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