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Wednesday, May 22, 10:16 am Central Time

Press Release

Source:  C. Robert Coates

C. ROBERT COATES REVIEWS PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF THE NETRO ELECTION FOR DIRECTORS

LAKE FOREST, Ill., May 22 -- C. Robert ("Bob") Coates announced today the
preliminary results of the election for directors at Netro Corporation
(NASDAQ: NTRO).  He and David Kennedy had challenged two incumbent directors
for positions on the company's board of directors.

Robert Coates said that the only verified results so far come from ADP.  ADP
mails all proxies to investors holding their stocks in "street name", i.e.,
with a broker.  ADP then tallies the proxies that are returned by
shareholders.  Our representatives tell us that the ADP tallies show Coates
and Kennedy with 15,557,479 shares voted for them and Netro's incumbent
directors Baruch and Federman with 6,870,244 shares.

Almost all individual and institutional investors hold their shares in street
name.  So the ADP totals show Coates and Kennedy taking a surprisingly large
lead with these investors, many who traditionally support management.

However, the ADP tallies do not include any votes by registered stockholders,
i.e., individuals and organizations holding shares in their own name and not
through brokers.  Most of these investors are insiders such as Netro's CEO
Gideon Ben Efraim and other officers and directors of the company.  According
to Netro's Proxy Statement, Gideon Ben Efraim owns approximately 3.1 million
shares.  AT&T Wireless also holds its recently acquired 8.2 million shares
this way.  We do not know the totals for the registered shareholders voting
for Netro.  Netro specifically refused to disclose this information either
during or after the annual meeting.  We do know that we received an additional
856,605 shares from this group of investors.

We hope to hear the final vote count for the election of directors very soon.
We're very gratified that we received so much support from individual and
institutional investors.  We don't think anyone predicted that we would do so
well when we first challenged Netro's directors two short months ago.  If
Netro hadn't placed 8.2 million shares with AT&T Wireless in February of this
year, we think there would be no doubt now about the outcome.

Whether we win or lose this election, many of the investors who voted for us
tell us that we will have changed Netro for the better and benefited all
shareholders.  Towards this end, we will continue our efforts to hold the
directors accountable to all shareholders.

We thank every investor who took the time to vote for us.  We really
appreciate your efforts.