INPC Inphonic (MM)

InPhonic, Inc. (NASDAQ:INPC), a leading online seller of wireless devices and services, today named Brian J. Curran as Chief Operating Officer. Before joining InPhonic, Curran served as Best Buy's vice president of customer centricity, retail customer experience and customer care, the heart of Best Buy's acclaimed customer-focused sales and service initiatives. For more than a decade, Curran has been one of the most respected consumer electronic industry operators at both Best Buy and CompUSA. For the last six years, Curran has served Best Buy as vice president of customer centricity, enterprise customer care and retail customer experience. He was responsible for the fulfillment and customer service operations of the 100 million customer service phone calls that Best Buy receives annually. Curran was also uniquely instrumental in managing the launch of BestBuy.com. Before Best Buy, Curran served as vice president at CompUSA overseeing all facets of the sales and vertical market segments, including a 1,000 plus member call center and managing over 200 sales offices nationwide with annual sales of $1.7 billion. "Brian is one of the best operational specialists in our industry, and his addition further bolsters and highlights InPhonic's customer-centric focus and direction," said InPhonic Chairman and CEO David A. Steinberg. "Brian will spearhead a number of key InPhonic initiatives already underway to improve customer experience and operational efficiencies across the organization." In his role as COO, Curran will report to InPhonic's Chairman and CEO, and will lead the following key InPhonic business units: Information Technology, Credit & Activations, and Wireless Activation & Services (WAS) Operations. "I am very excited to join the talented team at InPhonic," said Brian J. Curran, InPhonic's new Chief Operating Officer. "I am eager to further refine and augment InPhonic's already award-winning customer experience, and also help take the company to the next level in customer acquisition and unparalleled customer care for communication products and services." About InPhonic Headquartered in Washington, D.C., InPhonic, Inc. (NASDAQ:INPC) is a leading online seller of wireless services and products. InPhonic sells these services and devices, and provides world-class customer service through websites that it creates and manages for online businesses, national retailers, member-based organizations and associations under their own brands. InPhonic also operates Wirefly (www.wirefly.com), a leading one-stop comparison mobile phones and wireless plans shopping site that has been awarded "Best of the Web" by Forbes magazine and "Best in Overall Customer Experience" by Keynote Performance Systems. InPhonic also delivers a full range of MVNO and mobility solutions to enterprise clients through its Mobile Virtual Network Enablement (MVNE) platform. Among many awards in its history, InPhonic holds the distinction as #1 Company of the Year on the INC. 500 for 2004. For more information on the company, its products and services, visit the InPhonic Corporate Web site at www.inphonic.com. INPCG. "Safe Harbor" Statement - Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, this press release may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Important factors, which could cause actual operating results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements, are detailed in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission made from time to time by the Company. This press release and statements are current as of the date of the individual announcements and the Company undertakes no obligation to publicly release any revisions to any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date thereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.