San Jose, Calif. - June 4, 2008 - Aeris^® Communications, the leading wireless communications service provider dedicated exclusively to the Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and telematics marketplace across North America, announced today that the company has augmented its presence in the growing Utilities investments in Smart Grid, automated meter infrastructure (AMI)/automated meter reading (AMR) solutions. Aeris's enhanced industry support team includes the addition of a special, utility-focused group consisting of a new vice president in charge of utility customer solutions, and two new sales executives with deep backgrounds in the utility industry.

"Aeris removes the complexity of wireless for Smart Gird, AMI / AMR solutions," said Mark Cratsenburg, vice president of sales at Aeris. "Aeris has invested more than $40 million in wireless infrastructure to increase reliability, security and ease of use of wireless data applications. Coupled with our enhanced resources for customer solutions and sales support, the utilities industry can deploy wireless solutions quickly with total confidence that the solution works every time, all the time."

Paul Turner has joined Aeris as vice president of customer solutions, which includes professional services. Turner brings more than 15 years of customer service leadership and technology experience to the Aeris team and has considerable experience in the utility sector. Prior to joining Aeris, Turner oversaw the implementation of customized IT solutions for oil and gas suppliers, among others. In addition, Gregory Kreuziger and Paul Wesolowski have joined Aeris as sales executives and have more than 37 years of extensive wireless, utility and sales experience combined.

"Turner, Kreuziger and Wesolowski provide the combination of utility and wireless expertise that our customers require to seamlessly incorporate wireless into their AMI/AMR and Smart Grid solutions," said Cratsenburg. "We pride ourselves at Aeris of not just being a wireless carrier, but a wireless carrier that understands and has deep experience in how wireless data is used in our customers' businesses."

With broad and deep layers of coverage offered across North America from Canada to Mexico, Aeris provides integrated communications solutions for smart grid, smart metering, and demand response solutions.

About Aeris Communications, Inc.
Aeris^® is the leading wireless communications service provider dedicated exclusively to the Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Telematics marketplace across North America. Aeris has assembled and seamlessly integrated its top tier carrier partner networks through AerFrame™ to provide customers with simplified, unified, reliable, and even customized network services for M2M and Telematics applications. Since 1992, Aeris has developed expertise and patented technologies now proven on millions of devices and billions of messages per year. Aeris provides expert services, superior reliability, broader coverage, lower latency, and unsurpassed customer support and managed services. For more information, please visit http://www.aeris.net or call 1-888-GO-AERIS.