Somera Appoints Scott Willis as Senior Vice President, Global Services

Somera Appoints Scott Willis as Senior Vice President, Global
Services 


DALLAS, June 1  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Somera Communications, Inc.
(NASDAQ:SMRA), a global provider of telecommunications asset management
services, announced that Scott Willis, age 41, has joined the company as Senior
Vice President, Global Services.  Mr. Willis will be located at the company's
headquarters in the technology corridor in Dallas, Texas.

"We are pleased with the initial reception of our portfolio of Telecom Asset
Management services," said David W. Heard, President and CEO of Somera. "Our
RecoveryPLUS, RepairPLUS and LifecyclePLUS services offerings are designed to
provide immediate relief to our customers who are focused on improving returns
through improved asset utilization.  We believe these service offerings are
accretive to our base business model and leverage our existing operational,
sales, and marketing infrastructure.  The right leadership is critical to both
driving customer adoption of our new service offerings and providing customers
with flawless execution.  Given Scott's track record of success and his
experience as both a service provider and a technology provider, I am confident
that he will help drive our services business."

Mr. Willis added, "Somera has already demonstrated traction in its services
business having recently announced an agreement with XO Communications and
initiated its first RecoveryPLUS+ program with a top 10 nationwide carrier.  I
believe we have an excellent opportunity to capitalize on the trend toward
business process outsourcing and to partner with our customers to help them
reduce operating expenses and capital budgets, recover hidden value in existing
assets and optimize returns on mature technologies. Given our recent customer
wins, strong relationships with global service providers, and world-class
operations, we should be well positioned to lead in our space."

Mr. Willis was most recently Vice President and General Manager at Nokia
Networks, responsible for overall global management for leading RBOC and
wireless service providers.  Prior to that, he was Senior Vice President of
Sales and Marketing at Keybridge Corporation, a global provider of managed
services.  Mr. Willis has also held senior management positions at both
BellSouth and Sprint Corporation, where he achieved increasing levels of
responsibilities resulting from demonstrated success in sales and market
development.

Mr. Willis holds a Bachelor degree in finance from the University of Oklahoma
and an MBA from Wake Forest University in North Carolina.

About Somera Communications

Somera launched its family of Lifecycle Management Services in 2004 in response
to an industry-wide need for telecom asset management to optimize return on
assets.  Somera's product offerings enable service providers to generate
greater value from legacy assets in the form of lower operating costs, longer
product life, higher productivity, and real measurable capital savings.  With
Somera LifecyclePLUS, customers can outsource elements of network operations,
logistics, and technical service.  Somera RecoveryPLUS(TM) is a program
approach to deliver documented savings and expense relief by recovering hidden
value in current underutilized assets and inventories. Somera RepairPLUS
provides comprehensive support for wireless, wireline, and data products at
significant savings and reduced cycle times.  These services are in addition to
Somera's traditional Brokerage business that provides immediate availability of
quality, warranted new and refurbished equipment at savings of 25 to 60%. 
Founded in 1995, Somera has developed an impressive base of over 1,100
customers worldwide, including the industry leaders from each segment of the
telecommunications market.  Visit Somera on the web at http://www.somera.com/.

Except for historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in
this news release may contain "forward-looking statements" that involve risks
and uncertainties including but not limited to those regarding Somera's
services strategy, market opportunities, growth potential of both services and
associated contracts, and impact on Somera's business.  These statements may
differ materially from actual future results.  Readers are referred to the
documents filed by Somera with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
specifically Somera's reports filed on form Form 10-K for the year ended
December 31, 2004 and quarterly reports filed on Form 10-Q, which identify
important risks that could cause actual results to differ from those contained
in the forward-looking statements including, without limitation, risks relating
to Somera's services strategy and impact to growth.  Copies of Somera's
Securities & Exchange Commission filings may be obtained by contacting
Financial Relations Board at 617-520-7064 or by visiting the Investor section
of Somera's web site at http://www.somera.com/ 

DATASOURCE: Somera Communications, Inc.



CONTACT:  Tricia Ross of Financial Relations Board, [phone],

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