Availability of Way-to-Go Navigator Offers New Operator Services for Consumers

GPS-Enabled Wireless Handset Gives On-Road and Off-Road Audible Direction Built with Microsoft MapPoint .NET Location Based Services Platform

GSM World Congress, Cannes, France -- 2/17/2003 -- Today, Clarity Communication Systems Inc (ClaritySM), announced Way-to-Go Navigator™, an affordable Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) navigation system providing accurate location services from a wireless GPS-enabled handset. Way-to-Go Navigator, the first release in a series of location services products will evolve over the next several months to include tracking and management, as well as info-tainment capabilities such as “where are my friends”.

Using advanced programming techniques, Clarity has created a unique hands-off/eyes-off user interface, a first for the wireless telecommunications industry. This interface makes Way-to-Go navigation system safe and easy to use for all skill levels.

According to Jim Fuentes, founder and CEO of Clarity, “With Way-to-Go users get clear turn-by-turn audible instructions, including street names and distances to next maneuver, allowing them to quickly navigate around traffic jams, track progress towards a planned destination, avoid getting lost, re-route their path if off-course, and much more.”

“A flexible location platform with high quality content was essential for us to create easy to use location services”, stated Bill Jenkins, VP of Strategy and Business Development for Clarity, “Microsoft MapPoint .NET provided the location platform and content coverage we needed.”

“We admire Clarity’s innovation of new location products and services,” said Michael Graff, general manager of the MapPoint Business Unit at Microsoft Corp. “Their use of MapPoint .NET illustrates the flexibility and extensibility we can provide to application developers delivering location-based services.”

“Way-to-Go Navigator is the first of many MapPoint .NET enabled, client/server-based location services applications to be made available by Clarity”, stated Mike Fekety, VP of Product Management for Clarity, “the client portion is compatible with packet data and GPS-enabled handsets, Smartphones and Wireless PDAs.”

Clarity Way-to-Go™ Navigator can be downloaded directly from the Nextel i88s or i58sr handsets or from the Nextel iDEN update website at http://www.idenupdate.com.

About Clarity Communication Systems Founded in 1998, Clarity is a privately held corporation specializing in the development and deployment of telecommunication-oriented products and services. The company offers a wide range of capabilities allowing telecom manufactures and service providers to increase revenue while decreasing costs and, thereby, positively impacting their profitability.