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Tuesday, January 18, 2005

U.S. Wireless Online Completes Acquisition of United Broadband Networks, LLC

U.S. Wireless Online Completes Acquisition of United Broadband Networks, LLC Acquisition Expands Company's Service Territory to Include Lexington, KY LOUISVILLE, Ky., Jan. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- U.S. Wireless Online, Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: UWRL) (website: www.uswirelessonline.com), today announced that it has completed the acquisition of United Broadband Networks, LLC (UBN). The transaction was first announced on December 15, 2004 and closed on January 17, 2005. Additional transaction details will be filed on Form 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The acquisition is expected to be accretive to U.S. Wireless Online's earnings in 2005 and will allow the Company to gain entry into a new service market: Lexington, Kentucky. U.S. Wireless Online intends to aggressively expand the Lexington market. Founded in 2002 by John S. Binkley, President, and Jack B. Dulworth, CEO, UBN (www.unitedbbnetworks.com) is a wireless broadband internet company, headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky's high-tech corridor, "eMain USA," that owns and operates state-of-the-art high-speed networks in the Louisville and Lexington, Kentucky metropolitan areas. In addition to managing its own commercial networks, UBN recently completed the sale of a wireless network to the Center for Rural Development (CRD) in Somerset, Kentucky. The CRD received several million dollars under a federal grant from the Department of Justice to deploy mobile data equipment for the Kentucky State Police and other First Responders across a ten-county area in Central and Eastern Kentucky. In 2003, UBN was awarded a contract to provide consultation and other services to the Nashville-Davidson County Metro Government (Nashville) involving the deployment of a wireless network for the city's Fire Department. UBN was selected after extensive evaluations by both The CRD and Nashville. Leveraging its carrier-grade Network Operations Center (NOC) and existing wireless broadband infrastructure, U.S. Wireless Online intends to expand its wireless service area and revenue base through acquisitions within the emerging and highly fragmented wireless broadband industry. The Company is currently engaged in discussions with multiple acquisition candidates. About U.S. Wireless Online, Inc. U.S. Wireless Online owns and operates one of the nation's largest wireless Internet broadband networks with a coverage area, including recently announced acquisition candidates, of over 1,000 square miles. The Company provides wireless "last mile" high-speed Internet access (a wireless connection from a major trunk line to a customer's location) in the rapidly growing wireless broadband industry. U.S. Wireless Online is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, where it also owns and operates a carrier-grade network operations center (NOC) that is equipped with advanced fire suppression systems and Cisco routers currently configured to support over 1.06 gigabits per second of capacity. This press release contains certain forward-looking statements, which are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Expressions of future goals and similar expressions reflecting something other than historical fact are intended to identify forward-looking statements, but are not the exclusive means of identifying such statements. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those currently anticipated. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, market acceptance of products and technologies, competitive factors, the Company's ability to continue to secure sources of financing and other factors described in the Company's filings with Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company undertakes no obligations to revise or update any forward-looking statements in order to reflect events or circumstances that may arise after the date of this press release. For more information please visit the Company's website at www.uswirelessonline.com or contact the Company at (502) 213-3700 Source: U.S. Wireless Online, Inc. CONTACT: U.S. Wireless Online, Inc., +1-502-213-3700 Web site: http://www.unitedbbnetworks.com/ Web site: http://www.uswirelessonline.com/ ------- Profile: International Entertainment

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