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                   AIRGATE PCS, INC. ANNOUNCES REORGANIZATION
                          AND SALES LEADERSHIP CHANGES

ATLANTA (February 15, 2002) - AirGate PCS, Inc., (Nasdaq/NM: PCSA), a Sprint PCS
Network Partner, recently made organizational announcements regarding the
management and distribution for their Midwest and Southeast Regions.

The Company announced management decisions stemming from the restructuring of
the recently acquired iPCS territory. Prior to the acquisition of iPCS, AirGate
had already been organized in a channel focused, two-region structure: the
Interior and Coastal Regions. Following the acquisition of iPCS, the sales
organization is now divided into two regions: the Southeast Region and the
former iPCS territory now known as the Midwest Region. AirGate is replicating
the Southeast sales channel structure in the Midwest Region. Simultaneously, the
Southeast Region has consolidated its current channel management from a
two-region structure to a single-region management structure.

Dennis Rabon has been named Midwest Region Vice President - Sales. Prior to
accepting this position, Dennis was the Interior Region Vice President of Sales
responsible for the Company's sales and market successes in upstate South
Carolina and Western North Carolina. While in this role, Dennis was instrumental
in driving productivity increases in AirGate's retail, indirect and business
sales channels as well as achieving acquisition cost savings and market share
gains. Dennis will provide strong leadership to the Midwest Region.

Charles Goldfarb has been named Southeast Region Vice President - Sales. Chuck's
previous position was Coastal Region Vice President of Sales where he was
responsible for the start-up and operations of AirGate's coastal territory.
Under Chuck's leadership, AirGate has delivered industry leading sales
productivity and this trend is expected to continue as he directs the
Southeastern Region's team to operational excellence.

In part because of higher than expected gross adds over the past year and the
adoption of a more aggressive business plan for the Midwest Region, the Company
could have been in jeopardy of violating certain covenants under the iPCS Senior
Secured Credit Facility in the second half of 2002. In a proactive measure, the
Company amended these covenants to ensure the Midwest Region can achieve its
business objectives. Thomas M. Dougherty, president and chief executive officer
of AirGate, remarked, "We are pleased with the organizational changes that have
been made and we believe the amended covenants will provide the flexibility
needed to drive the growth anticipated in the Midwest Region markets."

About AirGate PCS
AirGate PCS, Inc., including its subsidiaries, is a Sprint PCS Network Partner
with the exclusive right to sell Sprint PCS products and services in territories
within seven states located in the southeastern and mid-western United States.
The territories include over 14.6 million residents in key markets such as Grand
Rapids, Michigan; Charleston, Columbia, and Greenville-Spartanburg, South
Carolina; Augusta and Savannah, Georgia; Champaign-Urbana and Springfield,
Illinois; and the Quad Cities areas of Illinois and Iowa. AirGate PCS is among
the largest Sprint PCS Network Partners. As a Sprint PCS Network Partner,
AirGate PCS operates its own local PCS network to exclusively provide 100%
digital, 100% PCS products and services under the Sprint and Sprint PCS brand
name in its territories.

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About Sprint
Sprint is a global communications company serving more than 23 million business
and residential customers in more than 70 countries. With 80,000 plus employees
worldwide and more than $26 billion in annual revenues, Sprint is widely
recognized for developing, engineering and deploying state of the art network
technologies, including the United States' first nationwide all-digital,
fiber-optic network. Sprint's award-winning Tier 1 Internet backbone is being
extended to key global markets to provide customers with a broad portfolio of
scalable IP products. Sprint's high-capacity, high-speed network gives customers
fast, dependable, non-stop access to the vast majority of the world's Internet
content. Sprint also operates the largest 100-percent digital, nationwide PCS
wireless network in the United States, already serving the majority of the
nation's metropolitan areas including more than 4,000 cities and communities.

For more information, visit the Sprint PCS web site at http://www.sprintpcs.com.
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Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995:
Certain statements contained in this news release, such as statements concerning
the Company's anticipated performance, plans for growth and anticipated
financial results and other factors that could affect future operations or
performance, and other non-historical facts, are forward looking statements made
pursuant to the "safe-harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995. Since these forward looking statements are based on factors
that involve risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from
those expressed or implied by such forward looking statements.

Such factors include: the ability to successfully integrate the two businesses;
the competitiveness and impact of Sprint PCS pricing plans, products and
services; customer quality; the ability of Sprint to provide back office,
customer care and other services; consumer purchasing patterns; potential
fluctuations in quarterly results; an adequate supply of subscriber equipment;
risks related to our ability to compete with larger, more established
businesses; rapid technological and market change; risks related to future
growth and expansion; rates of penetration in the wireless industry; the
potential need for additional sources of liquidity; anticipated future losses;
the significant level of indebtedness of each of AirGate and iPCS; adequacy of
bad debt and other reserves; the potential to experience a high rate of customer
turnover; and the volatility of AirGate PCS' stock price.

For a detailed discussion of these and other cautionary statements and factors
that could cause actual results to differ from those contained in this news
release, please refer to AirGate PCS' and iPCS' filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission ("SEC"), especially in the "investment considerations"
section of AirGate PCS' Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2001,
AirGate PCS' Form 10-Q for the quarter ended December 31, 2001, iPCS' Form 10-K
for the year ended September 20, 2001, iPCS' Form 10-Q for the quarter ended
December 31, 2001, and in subsequent filings with SEC.

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