REPEAT/UbiquiTel Expands Network Coverage inSpokane.

Business Editors/Telecommunications Writers

REPEATING...adding ticker symbol

CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 22, 2000

UbiquiTel Inc., (NASDAQ:UPCS) a Sprint PCS Network Partner, announced today the growth of the Sprint PCS digital network surrounding Spokane,

The expansion of the Sprint PCS network includes additional coverage along the I-90 corridor from Spokane to east of Moses Lake, as well as the popular tourist destination of Sandpoint, Idaho. Sprint PCS is the nation's fastest growing wireless provider, offering the largest all-digital, all-PCS nationwide network with service in more than 300 metropolitan markets.

"We're excited to provide existing Sprint PCS customers with a larger coverage area as well as offer additional residents and businesses of Spokane and its surrounding communities the opportunity to become acquainted with Sprint PCS products and services," said Bob Laabs, General Manager of UbiquiTel's Spokane market.

UbiquiTel is the exclusive provider of Sprint PCS digital wireless personal communication services to midsize and smaller markets in the Western and Midwestern United States, covering a total population of approximately 7.7 million residents. When complete, the majority of UbiquiTel's network will cover portions of California, Nevada, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Indiana and Kentucky.

Sprint PCS operates the largest 100 percent digital, 100 percent PCS nationwide wireless network in the United States, already serving the majority of the nation's metropolitan areas including more than 4,000 cities and communities across the country. Sprint PCS has licensed PCS coverage of nearly 270 million people in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. For more information, visit the Sprint PCS web site at http://www.sprintpcs.com. Sprint PCS is a wholly-owned tracking group of Sprint Corporation trading on the NYSE under the symbol "PCS."

Sprint is a global communications company - at the forefront of integrating long-distance, local and wireless communications services, and a large carrier of Internet traffic. Sprint built and operates the United States' first nationwide all-digital, fiber-optic network and is a leader in advanced data communications services. Sprint has $20 billion in annual revenues and serves more than 20 million business and residential customers.

Statements contained in this news release that are forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties. Such forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the "safe-harbor" provisions of the private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and are made based on management's current expectations or beliefs as well as assumptions made by, and information currently available to, management. A variety of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated in UbiquiTel's forward-looking statements, including the following factors: UbiquiTel's dependence on its affiliation with Sprint PCS; changes or advances in technology; changes in Sprint's national service plans or fee structure with UbiquiTel; change in population; increased competition in UbiquiTel's markets; UbiquiTel's ability to manage anticipated growth and rapid expansion; and general market and economic conditions. These and other applicable risks, cautionary statements and factors that could cause actual results to differ from UbiquiTel's forward-looking statements are included in UbiquiTel's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, specifically in the "risk factors"' section of UbiquiTel's Registration Statement on Form S-1 as declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 7, 2000.