Paragon Wireless Receives
2006 INTERNET TELEPHONY EXCELLENCE Award

Paragon Wireless’ hipi-2200™ 
Singled Out for Outstanding VoIP and Telephony Solutions

October 11, 2006 – Richardson, TX  — Paragon Wireless announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation’s  INTERNET TELEPHONY has named the Paragon Wireless hipi-2200™ dual-mode phone as a 2006 Excellence Award winner from INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine.

”We are very excited to have won the TMC Excellence Award. Since the launch of the hipi-2200™, both industry and commercial response has been tremendous. The addition of the hipi-2200™ to our family of products as a SIP-based Windows Mobile 5.0® dual-mode handset enables our customers to have another unique, feature-rich device, enabling clear, concise communication,” said Ilkka Pouttu, VP Sales and Marketing, Paragon Wireless. “This award demonstrates TMC’s continued commitment, once again, to highlighting, reporting and testing products and services in the VoIP and telephony spaces as an unbiased third party.”

“As a winner of the second annual INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award, Paragon Wireless has clearly demonstrated they are a leader in VoIP. Taking risks to advance VoIP technology and provide real solutions has earned Paragon Wireless recognition from the editors of INTERNET TELEPHONY,” said Greg Galitzine, Editorial Director of INTERNET TELEPHONY.

Since the first issue in February of 1998, INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has been providing unbiased views of the complicated converged communications space.  INTERNET TELEPHONY offers rich content from solutions-focused editorial content to reviews on products and services from TMC Labs and Minacom. 

Paragon Wireless also won TMC Lab’s Innovation Award earlier this year for their hipi™ 1100 dual-mode phone, the results of which were published in the July 2006 issues of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine.

The results of this most recent award, for the hipi™ 2200 Excellence Award will be published in the October 2006 issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine.

For more information on Paragon Wireless’ family of award-winning telecom products, please visit www.parawireless.com.

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About Paragon Wireless Inc.
Paragon Wireless delivers customizable, cost-effective VoWLAN handsets and solutions, which are readily deployable with a user-friendly interface.  Paragon Wireless is funded by leading VC firms and managed by experienced industry leaders.  With our first-to-market commercialization of SIP/IMS-based dual-mode solutions for both GSM and CDMA, Paragon Wireless addresses the market with an extensive IP portfolio and standards-compliant innovations.  For more information on Paragon Wireless, please visit us on the web at www.parawireless.com or email Brooke Greenwald at brooke@cornerstonepr.net.

About TMC®
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes four print publications: Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, SIP Magazine and IMS Magazine. TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 1,400 sites in the world by alexa.com*, TMCnet serves more than one million unique visitors each month. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, The VoIP Developer Conference, VoIP Demo, IMS Expo and Call Center 2.0 Conference. TMCnet.com publishes more than 15 topical online newsletters. For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com. (*alexa.com is an amazon.com company that ranks Web sites by their traffic levels. Neither alexa.com nor amazon.com is affiliated with TMCnet.)