fSONA Expands Into India Through Partnership with Netware and Bharti

SONAbeam Tested and Certified by Bharti in New Delhi Network

Vancouver, Canada – 12 March 2003 - fSONA Communications, producer of the award-winning SONAbeam optical wireless transmission equipment, today announced at the Convergence India 2003 conference in New Delhi, India the signing of a partnership agreement with Netware Technologies.

The SONAbeam family of products will now be available through Netware technologies, a technology and infrastructure solutions provider delivering leading edge critical hardware to service providers. Netware caters to the prime carriers in India, Europe, and Far/Middle eastern markets. Netwares first project was to deploy SONAbeams for the touchtel division of Bharti Enterprises.

Bharti has been a pioneering force in the telecom sector in India with many firsts and innovations to its credit, ranging from being the first mobile service in Delhi, first private basic telephone service provider in the country, first Indian company to provide comprehensive telecom services outside India in Seychelles and first private sector service provider to launch National Long Distance Services in India.

Netware is very pleased to partner with fSONA to distribute their SONAbeam product line," says Rajat Nagrath, Director of Netware. FSO or free space optics is an important new option for service providers and enterprises who need high-bandwidth wireless connectivity."

fSONA is excited about our partnership with Netware," stated Theresa Carbonneau, President & CEO of fSONA Communications. Working with Netware allows fSONA to extend its reach to new customers in India, Southeast Asia and Eastern markets."

About fSONA
fSONA Communications was founded in 1997 to deliver simple solutions for carrier, service provider and enterprise networks around the world. The SONAbeam series of free space optical (FSO) networking products use an unlicensed, wireless technology operating at speeds up to 1.5 Gbps and distances up to 5km. SONAbeam avoids the cost of digging to lay fiber, licensing for radio frequencies, is immune to interference, and is extremely secure. SONAbeam is operational in 24 countries around the globe and was named Product of the Year by Network Magazine. For more information visit www.fsona.com or www.free-space-optics.org