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ROCKVILLE, Md., Mar 20, 2003 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- MobilePro Corp. (OTC Bulletin Board: MOBL) announced today that it has been awarded five patents for its CDMA and Wideband-CDMA ("W-CDMA") smart antenna processing technology. These patents protect some of the core design and processes of the company's wireless modem technology.

MobilePro Chairman and CEO, Arne Dunhem, said, "The company's patented smart antenna technology is intended to support more users than a standard antenna, may produce fewer errors and may use less power, meaning our service provider customers are expected to benefit from lowered operating costs and greater profits. We believe this patent protection could give our NeoReach Division a long-term, sustainable competitive advantage with our semiconductor air chips that we believe would be measurably better and different than those produced by competitors. The company intends to pursue additional patents to protect its intellectual property rights in various semiconductor chip modem design and implementation areas."

Additional benefits covered by the company's patents are expected to include a smart antenna technology to provide faster call set-up and improved voice and data transmissions. The company has filed one additional patent application covering related technologies.

An investment profile about MobilePro Corp. may be found online at www.hawkassociates.com/mobilepro/profile.htm.

MobilePro is an emerging company creating scaleable and global wireless technologies and applications. The company has expertise in wireless components technology and intends to leverage that expertise into delivering wireless applications and systems solutions for the global enterprise markets. The company has aligned itself into three operating units. The company's MobilePro Applications Division intends to develop new Wireless Data Network Exchange Service(SM) products for wireless data applications and operational support services such as wireless network monitoring and testing. The company's MobilePro Systems Division intends to provide specialized radio frequency design services for turnkey wireless systems, wireless telemetry systems, solutions that bridge wireless local area networks ("WLAN") and 3G and other wireless web systems. The company's NeoReach Division intends to develop advanced 3G chip technology including 3G modem semiconductor chip sets for hand set telephones, pico-cell base stations, smart antenna technology and advanced radio frequency semiconductors.

MobilePro is headquartered in Rockville, MD in the Washington D.C. technology corridor.

For more information, contact MobilePro Chairman and CEO, Arne Dunhem, at [phone] or email [e-mail]. For investor relations information, contact Frank Hawkins or Julie Marshall, Hawk Associates, at [phone]. Email: [e-mail]. Detailed information about MobilePro can be found on the website www.neoreach.com. An online investor kit including copies of MobilePro press releases, current price quotes, stock charts and other valuable information for investors may be found on the website www.hawkassociates.com.

This release contains various forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 which represent the company's expectations or beliefs concerning future events of the company's financial performance. These forward-looking statements are further qualified by important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward- looking statements. Results actually achieved may differ materially from expected results included in these statements.

SOURCE MobilePro Corp.
CONTACT: Arne Dunhem, Chairman and CEO, MobilePro, [phone], or
[e-mail]; or investor relations, Frank Hawkins or Julie Marshall,
both of Hawk Associates, [phone], or [e-mail], for
MobilePro Corp.

URL: www.neoreach.com
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