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ASHBURN, VA - Comsearch, An Allen Telecom Company, announced today that its new geographic telecom system analysis tool, GeoPlanner, won the United Telecom Council's (UTC) Best Telecom Service Award at the UTC Telecom 2002 conference. Comsearch won the same award at the 2001 UTC Conference for its online Multiple Address System (MAS) interference-analysis and frequency-selection tool, MAS Express^SM. Exhibitors at the conference, held June 23-25, 2002, at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, entered their products in one of four categories: Wireless Equipment, Telecom Equipment, Telecom Services and Tower Products/Services. A panel of utility telecom professionals judged all product entries. Awards were announced June 24, 2002, on the show floor.

Comsearch's GeoPlanner products offer graphical representations of telecom systems based on Comsearch's extensive, value-added databases. The GeoPlanner product line is accessed through free GIS mapping tools and offers technical and regulatory data for any geographical area in the United States. Currently, there are four GeoPlanner modules available:

1. MAS GeoPlanner - used to identify MAS channel availability throughout a geographic area.


2. Microwave GeoPlanner - a comprehensive package of microwave path data that includes critical technical parameters of licensed facilities within a geographic area or band.


3. Network GeoPlanner - microwave path and technical data based on a given wireless carrier, radio manufacturer or antenna manufacturer.


4. Wireless GeoPlanner - technical data for wireless telecom services including broadcast (AM, FM, TV, DTV, HDTV), private land mobile, and earth station networks.

Comsearch, headquartered in Ashburn, Virginia, with offices in the European and Asia Pacific regions, provides total solution global offerings for wireless engineering design, acquisition, installation, and maintenance services. With more than 25 years of experience in developing solutions for mobile and broadband wireless applications, Comsearch has expanded its expertise into distributed wireless In-building design, real estate telecommunications services and private land mobile radio. Its experienced engineers, software products and information databases have addressed the specific challenges of network design and spectrum management for the evolving global wireless industry.

Allen Telecom Inc. (http://www.allentele.com) is a leading supplier of wireless equipment to the global telecommunications infrastructure market. FOREM supplies sophisticated filters, duplexers, combiners, amplifiers and microwave radios to an array of OEM customers. MIKOM focuses on providing repeaters, in-building systems and other products that enhance both the coverage and the capacity of a wireless system. Tekmar Sistemi provides integrated low power fiber optic and cable distributed antenna systems for indoor coverage systems. Decibel Products and Antenna Specialists manufacture land based and mobile antennas in frequency bands that cover all of the traditional wireless networks. Grayson Wireless supplies measurement and signal processing systems for testing the performance of a wireless network, network-based wireless caller geolocation systems for E 911 and value added services. Comsearch offers program management, network planning, engineering, development and installation of wireless networks worldwide.

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