Exhibit 99.1

              Senior Cable Executive Dan Ryan to Join Usurf America

     Former Charter Communications Veteran to Lead Usurf's Service Provider

                                    Business

      DENVER, March 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Usurf America, Inc. (OTC
Bulletin Board: USUR), a leading provider of voice, video and high-speed
broadband communications services, announced today that Dan Ryan, former head of
Charter Communications cable operations in eight western states has joined the
Company, effective immediately.

      In his new role, Ryan will be in charge of expanding Usurf's existing
Bundled Digital Services (BDS) customer base through a combination of organic
growth, focused investment in technology, and via the acquisition of strategic
assets from other MSOs. Usurf's service deployment technology and operations
groups will report to Ryan, as well as all BDS service operations for the
recently acquired Sovereign Companies.

      "I am delighted to join Usurf as they transform into a diversified
communications company," commented Ryan. "My first priority is to quickly build
a critical mass of customers by delivering superior integrated voice, video,
data, and security services, cost-effectively. Our goal is to consolidate
several synergistic cable systems that are available with our existing BDS
customer base in order to leverage the investments we've made in technology and
operations. Our success will be based on supplementing our existing systems with
other highly complementary assets that can be reasonably acquired, and by
leveraging our experience to deliver superior service."

      Usurf Chairman Dave Weisman added: "Dan Ryan represents the catalyst we
need to expand and succeed in vertically integrating our operations. Usurf has
one core mission -- to be known as a fully integrated service provider. We are a
communications technology vendor that has the capability to deploy products in
our residential and commercial developments, to offer a wide range of broadband
deployment services to other major developers, and achieve the critical mass
customer base to cost-effectively deploy state-of-the-art BDS services to
end-user customers in multiple states."

      Background on Dan Ryan

      Dan began his career in the cable industry by joining Rifkin Associates, a
Denver-based MSO in 1991. During his tenure at Rifkin, he built and operated
several large cable systems that were eventually acquired in 1999 by Charter
Communications. As a senior executive with Charter, Ryan was in charge of the
Rocky Mountain group -- which comprised over 250,000 customers in Colorado, New
Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Utah, Texas and Nevada.

      Most recently Dan was the founder and CEO of Precis Communications in
Denver. Precis acquired and operated several cable systems in Utah, Arizona, and
Nevada, which he recently sold to a telecommunications company.

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      Weisman continued, "With Dan joining Usurf, we have a major opportunity to
expand our service provider operations and offer our developer and municipal
partners state-of-the-art products and customer service. Dan has a mandate from
the Board of Directors to find the right partners and performing cable systems
and integrate them into our operations as cost-effectively as possible."

      About USURF America, Inc.

      Based in Broomfield, Colo., Usurf America is implementing specific
strategies designed to leverage the Company's IP-based software technology
enabling fully ubiquitous voice, video and data product deployments in targeted
geographic regions of the United States. For more information about Usurf
America, please visit the Company's website at www.usurf.com.

      SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT: Some information in this release is forward
looking. These forward-looking statements may be affected by the risks and
uncertainties in Usurf America and its subsidiaries and divisions. This
information is qualified in its entirety by cautionary statements and risk
factors disclosure contained in certain of Usurf America's Securities and
Exchange Commission filings. Usurf America wishes to caution readers that
certain important factors may have affected and could in the future affect its
actual results and could cause actual results for subsequent periods to differ
materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statement made by or on
behalf of Usurf America. There are many factors that will determine whether
Usurf America will be successful in its endeavors, including, without
limitation, access to adequate capital and consumer acceptance of its
telecommunications service offerings. Usurf America undertakes no obligation to
update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the
date hereof.


      Contact:   Jim Mills, J.F. Mills/Worldwide for Usurf America, Inc.
                  (303) 639-6186            jfmills@jfmillsworldwide.com
                 Denise Hoover, of Usurf America, Inc.
                  (303) 285-5379            investorrelations@usurf.com

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