Company Receives A0100 Award for Third Year in a Row for Continued Leadership in the Broadband Wireless Market

Pleasanton, CA – June 29, 2005 – Pronto Networks, a leading provider of carrier-class operations support systems (OSS) for managing large scale Wi-Fi networks, today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the Top 100 Private Company award winners. Pronto Networks was handpicked by the AlwaysOn editorial team based on a set of five criteria – innovation, market potential, customer adoption, media buzz and investor value creation.

The AO 100 was selected from over 1,000 companies, peer-nominated by leading venture capitalists, investment bankers and industry analysts. The AO 100 consists of private companies at all stages of development, from early to late stage.

Founded in 2001, Pronto Networks offers service providers a flexible, IMS-ready OSS for deploying and managing large-scale, broadband wireless networks and delivering next generation services, such as VoIP and multi-player games. Pronto’s highly-integrated services platform handles convergence of data, voice and video and provides seamless connectivity across multiple wireless and wireline access technologies, including Wi-Fi, WiMAX, cellular, DSL and cable. Pronto’s OSS platform is often used to support ‘mixed use’ networks and deliver new revenue-generating services in the municipal, hospitality and retail markets.

“The AO 100 companies are shaping today’s web-driven, connected environment,” said Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn. “We were inundated with nominations from leading companies, many of which I hope will appear on our list next year. My congratulations to each AO 100 winner – these are the companies which we predict will have the greatest market traction, strongest innovation and most game-changing approaches this year.”

“The wireless landscape has changed considerably over the past several years, and as a result our core platform has evolved to address our customers’ latest challenges,” said Jasbir Singh, president and CEO of Pronto Networks. “Convergence of technologies and supporting new revenue-enhancing services are just two areas we’re focused on today. We are honored to be recognized by AlwaysOn for a third year in a row for our market leadership and innovation, and look forward to continuously developing creative solutions to solve our customers’ toughest problems in the future.”

The AO 100 will be honored at the AO2005: Innovation Summit at a VIP reception at 5.00pm on July 19, 2005 at the Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, California.

About Pronto Networks
Pronto Networks, based in Pleasanton, Calif., provides carrier-class Operations Support Systems (OSS) that enable network operators to deploy and manage large public hot spot and hot zone networks. The company’s software handles provisioning, configuration, authentication, access control, security, pre-paid and post-paid billing, and roaming settlement for large public WLAN networks, in addition to remotely managing and updating multi-vendor hardware and Wi-Fi switches. Pronto Networks is funded by BV Capital, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and the Intel Communications Fund. Pronto Networks was recently named to the AlwaysOn List of Top 100 Private Companies for the second consecutive year and in 2003 received Wired Magazine’s Top 25 Wi-Fi Companies to Watch and Computerworld’s Innovative Technology Awards. For more information about Pronto Networks, please visit www.prontonetworks.com

About AlwaysOn
ALWAYSON is transforming the communication business with its online blogging network, establishing it as a leader in the Open Media revolution. Borrowing from the underground traditions of blogging and social networking, ALWAYSON (http://www.alwayson-network.com/) was launched in 2003. Today, AO’s annual Summit @ Stanford and OnHollywood events, print “blogozine” and online services encourage direct collaboration between global thought leaders and technology insiders. No other media brand has dared allow such openness amongst its readers and participants. ALWAYSON, LLC, is a privately held and virtually headquartered company born out of the heart of Silicon Valley.

Contacts:

Kristie Heins Fox for Pronto Networks
Ruder Finn, Inc.
312-329-3985
heinsfoxk@ruderfinn.com

Julia French
LEWIS PR for AlwaysOn
415-277-5400
juliaf@lewispr.com