Numerex Joins Sprint To Extend Range Of Wireless Services To The M2M Market

Atlanta, GA /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Numerex Corp. (Nasdaq: NMRX), a leading single source provider of secure machine-to-machine (M2M) products and services, today announced a wholesale data agreement that will give the Numerex customers access to an extended range of technological and market opportunities. Sprint will use its nationwide network coverage to provide wireless transport data services to Numerex.

This relationship builds on Sprint's recent formation of the Emerging Solutions business unit with a singular focus on accelerating the delivery of machine-to-machine (M2M) and mobile computing solutions to businesses and consumers. Leveraging its extensive experience in operating multiple platforms and assets, such as the Sprint 3G Mobile Broadband Network, this new strategic business unit will assess revenue opportunities, develop go-to-market plans and execute quickly, working closely with Sprint's customer-facing channels and partners, such as Numerex.

"Our services agreement with Numerex opens up new opportunities to accelerate our expansion into a growing M2M market," said Danny Bowman, president of Integrated Solutions Group, Sprint. "We believe that our association with a leader of the M2M industry, focused on simplifying the M2M experience, advances our goal to provide fast, easy and affordable access to a broad variety of M2M network connectivity solutions."

With a proven solution for the design, certification, testing, and launch of new applications, customers will benefit with a fast and successful M2M implementation. Simplification of the application development and on-boarding processes are achieved via integrated offerings, Numerex DNA™ (Device, Network and Application), delivered through Numerex FAST™ (Foundation Application Software Technology). Numerex FAST™, which is an Open Platform-as-a-Service-based framework, speeds up and smoothes out the M2M product launch. Numerex's customers are dealers, distributors, and other businesses, which serve the end-user market.

Numerex is one of the most experienced M2M full-service providers in the United States, enabling its customers to deploy secure and scalable M2M solutions to any market around the world. It is the first M2M service provider in North America to become ISO/IEC 27001:2005 (information security) certified. Numerex brings M2M projects to life effectively and efficiently through rapidly delivering the appropriate technology, network, and device along with customized value-added services.

"The combination of Sprint's technology and services with Numerex's development and deployment competencies augment the number of choices for our customers," said Mike Marett, Chief Operating Officer of Numerex. "Our agreement with Sprint underscores our ongoing commitment to providing a versatile M2M platform that is well suited to a diverse spectrum of markets and industries."

Within the scope of the contractual arrangement between Sprint and Numerex, both companies have also agreed to investigate the feasibility of providing additional implementation, customization, interface development or other specialized services.

About Sprint Nextel
Sprint Nextel offers a comprehensive range of wireless and wireline communications services bringing the freedom of mobility to consumers, businesses and government users. Sprint Nextel is widely recognized for developing, engineering and deploying innovative technologies, including two wireless networks serving almost 49 million customers at the end of the second quarter of 2009; industry-leading mobile data services; instant national and international push-to-talk capabilities; and a global Tier 1 Internet backbone. The company's customer-focused strategy has led to improved first call resolution and customer care satisfaction scores. For more information, visit www.sprint.com.

About Numerex
Numerex Corp. (Nasdaq: NMRX) is the single source machine-to-machine (M2M) product and service provider to some of the world's largest organizations delivering the foundational components of device, network, and application, used by its customers in the development of their M2M solutions. Customers typically subscribe to Numerex network and application services that are delivered through its hosted platforms. The Company's offerings and expertise enable its customers to efficiently build reliable and secure solutions that are used to monitor and manage assets remotely whenever and wherever needed, while simplifying and speeding up development and deployment. Numerex DNA™ offerings include hardware Devices, Network services, and software Applications that are delivered through its Numerex FAST™ (Foundation Application Software Technology) platform. Numerex is the first M2M service provider in North America to carry the ISO 27001 information security certification. "Machines Trust Us™" represents the Company's focus on M2M data security, service reliability, and round-the-clock support of its customers' M2M solutions. For additional information, please visit www.numerex.com.

Statements contained in this press release concerning Numerex that are not historical fact are "forward-looking" statements and involve important risks and uncertainties. Such risks and uncertainties, which are detailed in Numerex's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, could cause Numerex's results to differ materially from current expectations as expressed in this press release. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release, and Numerex assumes no duty to update forward-looking statements.

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