Subject: [NEXTEL-1] NorthStar Communications Group Awarded Nextel Cell Site Development Contract

From: Marcel <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 11:02:40 -0400

NorthStar Communications Group Awarded Nextel Cell Site Development Contract
Thursday April 24, 9:24 am ET

BIRMINGHAM, Ala., April 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NorthStar Communications
Group, Inc. (NorthStar) announced today that they will act as Nextel Communications
Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTL - News) turn-key general contractor to provide site acquisition, site
construction, and program management services relating to the development of cell
sites for 11 states during a two year period in Nextel's South region.

"We are very excited and proud to
have been selected by Nextel to
provide their site development
services for the South Region,"
comments Ed Salley, NorthStar's
Senior Vice President of Wireless
Services. "NorthStar and our partner
company, CH2M HILL, have a long
and successful history of providing
outsourced, turn-key network
infrastructure services to the
telecommunications industry, and
look forward to serving Nextel."

Headquartered in Birmingham,
Alabama, NorthStar serves as the
stand-alone telecommunications
subsidiary of BE&K, Inc. NorthStar
offers a full suite of wireline and wireless infrastructure services as well as network
operations and maintenance solutions. For more information regarding NorthStar's
service offering, refer to their website at www.northstar.net .

Nextel Communications, a Fortune 300 company based in Reston, Va., is a leading
provider of fully integrated wireless communications services and has built the largest
guaranteed all-digital wireless network in the country covering thousands of
communities across the United States. Nextel and Nextel Partners, Inc., currently serve
197 of the top 200 U.S. markets. Through recent market launches, Nextel and Nextel
Partners service is available today in areas of the U.S. where approximately 240 million
people live or work.

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