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Las Vegas, Nevada, October 24, 2005 - Front
Porch, Inc., provider of online subscriber communications
technologies for Internet Service Providers and
wireless networks, announced that its technology
has been selected by free-hotspot.com to power
Europe’s largest
and fastest growing free wireless service network.
“Front Porch’s technology provides us with sophisticated local advertising,
messaging and management capabilities,” said Daniel C. Toomey, Jr., CEO
of free-hotspot.com. “These unique capabilities coupled with the ability
to scale rapidly and manage literally thousands of distributed access points
from a central interface make Front Porch technology critical to our business. With
this technology we can accelerate our network deployment to meet the growing
demand for free HotSpots.”
“We are pleased that free-hotspot.com has decided to build its network
on our technology,” said Zachary Britton, President of Front Porch, “They
are making full use of our technology to deliver terms of service and other customized
messages to their users, provide information portals, and serve local advertisements. They
are an excellent example of how our next generation of network services and management
capabilities can be used to produce profits, even when access is given away for
free.”
Front Porch and free-hotspot.com will be demonstrating
their combined solution today at the TELECOM '05
show. To learn more about this exciting new
technology, drop by booth #1229 for a live demonstration.
About Front Porch – Front
Porch, a global Internet services company founded
in 1998, provides innovative solutions for Network
Service Providers to increase revenue, reduce customer
service costs, and improve communications with online
subscribers. The Front Porch Subscriber Communications
Platform offers web-based Customer Service Messaging,
Online Marketing and Advertising, Subscriber Redirection,
Security Services, and a suite of Network and Subscriber
Reports.
About free-hotspot.com - free-hotspot.com
is rapidly expanding Europe’s largest free
Wi-Fi service network. The company also provides
a comprehensive directory of more than 6,000 free
HotSpots throughout the world. free-hotspot.com’s
locations include cafés, hotels, pubs, restaurants,
retail centres, transit centres and other public
venues. free-hotspot.com
works with local, multi-national and national advertisers
and agencies to develop online marketing programs
and initiatives intended to reach Wi-Fi users through
its “On-Site” and “Portal” advertising
channels.
free-hotspot.com is
located in Dublin, Ireland and is a subsidiary
of Anacapa Holdings Ltd, an international online
marketing company. For further information, please
visit: www.free-hotspot.com.
About Wi-Fi and HotSpots - Wi-Fi,
also knows as 802.11 or wireless networking, is the
simple, wireless way to handle networking. With
Wi-Fi, computers can be wirelessly connected anywhere.
HotSpots are connection points for Wi-Fi networks.
Each HotSpot is created with a small box, containing
an 802.11 radio that can simultaneously talk to up
to one hundred 802.11 cards, which is hardwired into
the Internet. Wi-Fi hotspots are now available in
public places like restaurants, hotels, libraries
and airports.
Traditionally, users have had to pay for access to
public HotSpots. Free public HotSpots are now becoming
widely available through companies such as free-hotspot.com
Contact Information:
Front Porch
Raul Vaughn
Front Porch, Inc.
wifi@frontporch.com
209-288-5500
19043-C Standard Road
Sonora, CA 95370
free-hotspot.com
Dalyce Suanez
Open2Europe
d.suanez@open2europe.com
+33 1 55 02 14 58
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