Towerstream Signs Record Number of Contracts in June

Company Advances Sales Platform and Customer Care Program and Names VP of Sales and Director of Customer Care to Support Initiatives

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News Facts
Towerstream (NASDAQ:TWER - News), a leading fixed WiMAX service provider, today announced that it signed a record number of contracts in June. The Company has also announced improvements to its Sales and Customer Care organizations. To support these initiatives, Towerstream has promoted Matt Tooker as VP of Sales and Erin McFarlane has rejoined the Company as Director of Customer Care.

After significant research and testing, Towerstream has evolved its Sales platform to incorporate both outbound, call center-based sales and a web-based, inbound program. The digital portion is driven by significant online opportunities garnered through a targeted, online marketing campaign. As a result, the Company's Sales force will receive more qualified leads, enabling each rep to enhance their productivity and success in capturing demand for business broadband.

By optimizing its Sales Platform, the Company signed a record number of contracts, representing a 28% increase over the previous record.

In his new role, Tooker will drive Towerstream's inbound and outbound sales activities forward, building off his existing experience and knowledge of Towerstream's business and sales strategies. Prior to taking this position, he was Towerstream's East Coast Sales Manager, charged with managing the Company's sales teams for Boston, Chicago, Miami, New York City and Providence/Newport.

Towerstream's Customer Care program has also been modified to focus on both proactive and reactive customer service, while also evolving its customer service and network monitoring technologies. As a result, network and customer issues will be addressed before they affect service, which will increase customer satisfaction and lower churn.

McFarlane will leverage her extensive customer service and sales experience to manage Towerstream's 24x7 Customer Care call center, which provides troubleshooting and operational monitoring for Towerstream's business broadband network.

Quotes
"Towerstream has been working to strategically incorporate the right web-based technologies into our Sales platform, while also modifying our Customer Care program. We see this as the natural evolution of our business that will help Towerstream stay competitive, increase market share and ensure our customers receive the best service possible." (Jeff Thompson, President and CEO of Towerstream -- Jeff Thompson's bio)

"Towerstream continues to execute on its existing business model of delivering high-speed, wireless broadband to businesses, as proven by our record number of signed contracts in June. By capturing demand as it happens, we're able to leverage the scale of Internet based marketing. As a result, Towerstream's Sales force will receive more qualified leads, enabling each rep to be more productive and bring in more customers and increased revenue. Given this, we expect our evolved Sales platform will enable us to more effectively build on the powerful growth we've experienced over the past few quarters as we enter the second half of 2009." (Mel Yarbrough, Chief Revenue Officer of Towerstream -- Mel Yarbrough's bio)

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Towerstream's Services
Towerstream offers a variety of bandwidth options from T-1 to 1000Mbps as well as service reliability backed by an industry-leading Service Level Agreement (SLA) and a no-risk, money-back guarantee. Towerstream's wireless broadband network delivers high-speed Internet access supporting VoIP, bandwidth on demand, wireless redundancy, VPNs, disaster recovery, bundled data, and video services. Companies utilizing multiple appliances simultaneously, such as streaming video and VoIP, can prioritize their bandwidth to secure mission-critical activities. Towerstream also offers a Rapid Installation Program which guarantees installation within 48 hours.

About Towerstream
Towerstream is a leading fixed WiMAX service provider in the U.S., delivering high-speed Internet access to businesses. Founded in 2000, the Company has established networks in nine markets including New York City, Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, the San Francisco Bay Area, Miami, Seattle, Dallas-Fort Worth, and the greater Providence area where the Company is based. The Company was the first carrier selected to join the WiMAX Forum to assist leading vendors in establishing industry compliance with international broadband wireless access standards and cross-vendor interoperability. Towerstream was awarded two 2008 Telephony Innovation Awards for Most Innovative Broadband Wireless Service and Most Innovative Small Business Service and the Best of WiMAX World 2008 Service Provider Deployment Award for its New York City network.

• For a map of the regions covered by Towerstream's service, please visit: http://www.towerstream.com/index.asp?ref=service_areas.


• For sales inquiries, please call 866-848-5848; or visit: http://www.towerstream.com/index.asp?ref=support.


• Visit Towerstream CEO Jeff Thompson's blog at: http://blog.towerstream.com/.


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Safe Harbor
Certain statements contained in this press release are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of applicable federal securities laws, including, without limitation, anything relating or referring to future financial results and plans for future business development activities, and are thus prospective. Forward-looking statements are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties some of which cannot be predicted or quantified based on current expectations. Such risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, the risks and uncertainties set forth from time to time in reports filed by the company with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Although the company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. Consequently, future events and actual results could differ materially from those set forth in, contemplated by, or underlying the forward-looking statements contained herein. The company undertakes no obligation to publicly release statements made to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof.

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