Press Release

April 30, 2002

Cingular Provides Mobile Email Access To Attorneys, Staff At Palmer & Dodge, LLP

Top Boston law firm stays connected to critical information and enhances client service

Atlanta, GA - One of Boston's largest law firms, Palmer & Dodge, LLP, has enabled its mobile workforce with Cingular Xpress Mail BlackBerry Edition from Cingular Wireless, allowing employees to work more efficiently and effectively while providing an enhanced level of client service.

More than 200 Palmer & Dodge attorneys and other employees are using Cingular Xpress Mail BlackBerry Edition that is enabled for Cingular's nationwide wireless packet data Mobitex network. The service, based on the BlackBerry™ wireless email solution, allows the firm's employees to quickly and efficiently send and receive their email via RIM 957 Wireless Handhelds™, utilizing the company's existing Microsoft Exchange email system, without having to use a laptop computer. The firm also utilizes a software program that allows employees to view email attachments on the handheld devices.

According to Carl Easton, Director of Information Systems for Palmer & Dodge, the Cingular solution allows law firm employees to bypass more cumbersome and time-consuming means of accessing critical information while on the go to access email and communicate quickly - with one another and, more importantly, with clients - wherever they are.

"As more time is spent out of the office, attorneys must rely on the process of dialing into the firm's network after a full day of work - downloading email in order to respond to clients or to view documents usually hours after the original message was sent, " said Easton. "With Cingular's Xpress Mail BlackBerry Edition, they're already a step ahead, whether traveling or in the office."

"Palmer & Dodge is joining thousands of other companies that are already reaping the benefits of wireless data services," said Stephen Krom, Vice President of Business Marketing & Product Development for Cingular Wireless. "Their experience is a shining example of how Cingular offers businesses of all types and sizes the flexibility to communicate in the way that best fits their unique needs, and to be responsive to their clients' needs."

Cingular Xpress Mail BlackBerry Edition gives corporate users the ability to manage their Microsoft Exchange or Lotus Notes email while away from the office, as well as perform interactive messaging and access calendars, contact and to-do lists. Cingular Xpress Mail BlackBerry Edition is part of a broad portfolio of services offered by Cingular Wireless on both data-only handhelds and mobile phones to its business customers, which include over 420 of the Fortune 1000 companies. Cingular also offers Cingular Xpress MailSM which gives businesses access to their Microsoft Exchange or Lotus Notes corporate email on Internet-ready mobile phones.

For more information on Cingular Xpress Mail BlackBerry Edition, Cingular Xpress Mail and Cingular's other enterprise-based solutions, please call 1-888-825-2727 or go to www.cingular.com.

About Palmer & Dodge

Palmer & Dodge LLP, founded in 1887, provides a full range of legal services to its clients. The firm's practice ranges from sophisticated corporate transactions and complex civil litigation to private trust matters, with a number of focused specialties, including biotechnology, institutional finance, real estate, antitrust, public finance, schools and colleges, transportation, insurance, and employment law. http://www.palmerdodge.com

About Cingular Wireless

Cingular Wireless is the second largest wireless carrier in the U.S, and a joint venture between SBC Communications (NYSE - SBC) and BellSouth (NYSE - BLS). As a leader in mobile voice and data communications, Cingular serves more than 22 million voice and data customers across the United States. Cingular provides cellular/PCS service in 42 of the top 50 markets nationwide. Cingular's Mobitex-based wireless packet data service operates throughout the United States, covering more than 93 percent of the urban business population located in 492 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) and non-MSAs with a total population of 200 million people. Cingular offers customers advanced technologies in simple, cost-effective ways that permit them to tap the creative potential of wireless through their own self-expression. Details of the company are available at www.cingular.com.