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NEWS RELEASE
Sonora, CA – June 19, 2006 -
Front Porch, Inc announced today that its PorchLight
technology helped free-hotspot.com win the Wireless
Broadband Innovation Award for “Best Public
Wi-Fi Product for 2006”. Known as "the
Oscars" of the industry, the WBI awards recognize
leadership, innovation and excellence in wireless
broadband.
Daniel C. Toomey, Jr., CEO of free-hotspot.com,
said his firm was selected from more than 150 entrants
from 30 countries. “We’re honored to
win this coveted award, and we’re thrilled
that our partnership with Front Porch has enabled
us to be so successful. Front Porch’s solutions
for messaging, redirection, and targeted advertising
have exceeded our expectations and allowed us to
grow Europe’s largest and fastest-growing free
Wi-Fi HotSpot network.”
The Front Porch solutions enable network providers
to deliver any content to any user, anytime they
surf the web. The free-hotspot.com network uses Front
Porch technology to direct users to a terms-of-service
web page and welcome portal pages and to deliver
other valuable local information directly to users’ browsers
during their surfing sessions. The solutions subsidize
HotSpot venues’ access costs and deliver targeted
online promotions for owners, community and business
partners.
About Front Porch:
Front Porch, an Internet services company founded
in 1998, provides solutions for Network Service
Providers to improve communications with online
subscribers, to increase revenue and to reduce
customer service costs. Front Porch’s
network-based direct-to-the-browser messaging technology
enables network providers to deliver any content
to any user anytime they are surfing the web. The
Front Porch Subscriber Communications Platform
offers Customer Service Messaging, Online Marketing
and Advertising, Subscriber Redirection, Security
Messaging, and a suite of Network and Subscriber
Reports. Front Porch solutions are currently installed
in over 200 locations in 18 countries. For more
information, please see www.frontporch.com.
About free-hotspot.com:
free-hotspot.com, based in Dublin, Ireland, operates
Europe’s largest and fastest-growing free
HotSpot network. The company launched a pan-European
program in 2005 to bring free Wi-Fi to cafés,
hotels, pubs, restaurants, retail centers, transit
centers and other venues, providing equipment and
expertise at no cost to venue owners and promoting
the free HotSpots via local and national marketing
campaigns. To learn more please visit: www.free-hotspot.com or www.free-hotspot.com/press_release11.htm.
About the Wireless Broadband Innovation
Awards:
WBI Awards Ltd is a UK-based institution, organizing
the hotly contested independent awards for users
and service providers of wireless broadband worldwide.
Awards cover excellence in service provision, enterprise
deployment, product development, and personal and
corporate achievement. An independent judging panel
announced the 2006 winners in May. To learn more
please visit: www.wbiawards.com.
Front Porch Contact Information:
Raul Vaughn
Vice President of Business Development, Sales and
Marketing
Front Porch, Inc.
rvaughn@frontporch.com
(209) 288-5507
14520 Mono Way, Suite 200
Sonora, CA 95370
free-hotspot.com Contact Information:
Dan Toomey
CEO
free-hotspot.com
dan@anacapa.biz
(877) 765-1385
Media Contact Information:
Ian Bain
Vice President
Citigate Cunningham
ibain@citigatecunningham.com
(415) 618-8722
101 2nd Street, Suite 2250
San Francisco, CA 94304 |
