MobilePro / Evergreen Open Broadband

MobilePro Corp., a wireless technology and broadband telecommunications company, announced today that it has acquired Evergreen Open Broadband, a wholesale wireless Internet service provider (WISP) based in Boston, Mass., for stock and the assumption of certain liabilities, to cultivate and manage relationships with regional and national ISPs targeting retail wireless customers.

Evergreen's wholesale business model provides an open, competitively priced wireless platform for local, regional and national ISPs to market their services. Under this model, the retail customer receives service and a bill from their preferred ISP while Evergreen bills the ISP for the value of wholesale services provided. Evergreen will continue to sign up new ISPs as part of Evergreen Open Broadband, a division of MobilePro. Principals of Evergreen are CEO Martin Levetin (formerly a founder and COO of CopperCom and senior vice president at RAM Mobile Data), Dick Edmiston (formerly senior vice president of R&D at EarthLink), Robert Weber and Jay Barnell.

Evergreen has actively participated in NeoReach's wireless bid preparations and bids for Tempe, Ariz., Orlando, Fla., and approximately 20 other city-wide deployments that are either pending or under consideration by other cities and will continue to do so as a part of NeoReach.

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