Exhibit 99.2
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                      Contact: Daniel P. Dwyer
                                                    Chief Financial Officer
                                                    (303) 694-8520
                                                    Web Site: http//www.cels.com


COMMNET CELLULAR INC. PRICES THE OFFER TO PURCHASE ITS 11-3/4% SENIOR
      SUBORDINATED DISCOUNT NOTES DUE 2003 AND ITS 11-1/4% SUBORDINATED
      NOTES DUE 2005

ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Jan. 22, 1998-/PRNewswire/-CommNet Cellular Inc. ("CommNet") 
(Nasdaq: CELS-news) announced today the prices of its cash tenders for any and
all of its outstanding 11-3/4% Senior Subordinated Discount Notes Due 2003 (the
"Discount Notes") and any and all of its outstanding 11-1/4% Subordinated Notes
due 2005 (the "Subordinated Notes," together with the Discount Notes, the
"Notes").

     The total consideration to be paid for each validly tendered Discount Note
and properly delivered consent will be $1,024.57, determined on the basis of the
yield to September 1, 1998, the first date on which the Discount Notes are
redeemable, equal to the sum of (x) 5.31% (the yield on the 6 1/8% U.S. Treasury
Note due August 31, 1998 based on the bid price for such security as of 2:00
p.m. New York City time on January 21, 1998), plus (y) 50 basis points (such
price being rounded to the nearest cent per $1,000 principal amount at maturity
of the Discount Notes).

     The total consideration to be paid for each validly tendered Subordinated
Note and properly delivered consent will be $1,172.16, determined on the basis
of the yield to July 1, 2000, the first date on which the Subordinated Notes are
redeemable, equal to the sum of (x) 5.33% (the yield on the 5 7/8% U.S. Treasury
Note due June 30, 2000 based on the bid price for such security as of 2:00 p.m.
New York City time on January 21, 1998), plus (y) 50 basis points (such price
being rounded to the nearest cent per $1,000 principal amount of the
Subordinated Notes).

     The total consideration for the Notes includes a consent payment of (i)
$30.00 per $1,000 principal amount at maturity of the Discount Notes, and (ii)
$30.00 per $1,000 principal amount of the Subordinated Notes, which holders of
Notes tendered prior to the respective consent expiration date are entitled to
receive. The expiration date for each consent solicitation will be 5:00 p.m.,
New York City time, Friday, January 23, 1998. Holders of Notes who do not
properly consent will have the consent payment withheld from the total
consideration for their Notes.

     Additional information concerning the terms of the tender offers and 
consent solicitations, tendering Notes and the delivery of consents and 
conditions to the tender offers and consent solicitations may be directed to Mr.
Robert Berk at Chase Securities Inc. at (212) 270-1100 (collect). The tender
offers and consent solicitations have been made pursuant to the Offer to
Purchase and Consent Solicitation Statement dated January 7, 1998, as
supplemented on January 16, 1998 (the "Statement"), and the related Letter of
Transmittal and Consent, which more fully set forth the terms of the tender
offers and consent solicitations. The Statement, Letter of Transmittal and
Consent and related documents may be obtained from Beacon Hill Partners, Inc.,
the Information Agent, at (212) 843-8500 (collect) or (800) 253-3841.

     CommNet operates, manages and finances cellular telephone systems in which 
its subsidiaries and affiliates hold ownership interests. CommNet owns interests
in 82 markets located in 14 states with a proportionate interest in 3.6 million
pops. CommNet is the manager in 56 of these markets with a total population of
4.2 million residing in nine contiguous states in the mountain and plains
regions. These managed markets represent one of the largest geographic
collections of contiguous wireless systems in the United States.