FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

May 12, 2008

Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) Hires Ellen Farmer to Manage Environmental Program

TIA's Green Initiative Launched with Acquisition of EIATRACK, New Hire

Arlington, Va. - The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), the leader in advocacy, standards development, business development and intelligence for the information and communications technology (ICT) industries, today announced that Ellen B. Farmer has joined its staff in the new position of Environmental Program Manager. Farmer will manage TIA's recently-acquired EIATRACK environmental information alert regulatory tracking service and TIA's global "green" program for the ICT industry.

"This important TIA initiative has the complete support of the association's Board of Directors. We intend to play a key role addressing industry needs as companies determine how to participate in the green and sustainable resources movements," said Grant Seiffert, President of TIA. "Ellen Farmer's international training and diverse experience make her the ideal person to lead our pivotal efforts."

Farmer brings to TIA extensive management and environmental information research experience, as well as impressive college credentials in the environmental arena. Her master's degree with honors from King's College in London focused on the environment, politics and globalization, and her bachelor's degree was in government and sociology from Wofford College in Spartanburg, S.C., where she was on the Dean's List.

Farmer's experience ranges from environmentally-conscious management of The Mansion on O Street, a boutique hotel and private events venue in Washington, D.C., to consulting and information research at Booz Allen Hamilton, where Farmer focused on the Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund and the U.S. Postal Service's energy efficiency program. In addition, she was a researcher and writer at Green Guide Publishing in the UK.

TIA's EIATRACK service, acquired in January, provides global benchmarking in environmental intelligence, as well as product-oriented regulatory tracking analysis and reporting. Hundreds of subscribing companies throughout the world use the tool as an early-warning system for monitoring and evaluating environmental legal and regulatory activity. The EIATRACK team consists of experts from the legal, environmental policy and science sectors, including the law firms Beveridge and Diamond (USA); Hunton and Williams (Europe); Holland and Knight (China); and subject-matter experts EcoFrontier (Korea); Tokio Marine (Japan) and WSP Environmental (Australia).

More information is available at www.eiatrack.com. For more information about TIA, contact Taly Walsh at +1.703.907.7744 or twalsh@tiaonline.org.

About TIA
Celebrating its 20^th Anniversary, the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) represents the global information and communications technology (ICT) industries through standards development, advocacy, business opportunities, market intelligence and world-wide environmental regulatory compliance. Thousands of companies and individuals work through TIA to enhance the business environment for telecommunications, broadband, mobile wireless, information technology, networks, cable, satellite, unified communications, emergency communications and the greening of technology. TIA is accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).

TIA's Board of Directors includes senior-level executives from ACS, ADC, ADTRAN, Alcatel-Lucent, ANDA Networks, ArrayComm, AttivaCorp, Avaya, Bechtel Communications, Inc., Cam Communications, Cisco Systems, Corning Incorporated, Ericsson, Inc., Graybar, Henkels & McCoy, Intel Corporation, LGE, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia Siemens Networks, Nortel, OneChip Photonics Inc., OnSite Systems, Panasonic Computer Solutions Co., Research In Motion, Sumitomo Electric Lightwave Corporation, Tellabs, Tyco Electronics, Ulticom, Inc., Verari Systems, Westell Technologies, Inc. and Zebra Technologies Corporation. Advisors to the Board include FAL Associates, ILS Technology, Orca Systems and Telcordia Technologies.

TIA membership enhances the ability of companies to prepare for the future of communications. TIA brings people and businesses together by helping the industry overcome technical and political barriers to communications. Visit www.tiaonline.org for details.

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