IRVINE, Calif., June 15, 2000 (PRIMEZONE) - Jun 15, 2000 -- USURF America, Inc. (AMEX:UAX), a provider of Fixed-Wireless Internet access products, today announced plans to license its proprietary "Quick-Cell" wireless Internet access system to the thousands of Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs), independent and other telcos, DSL providers and Internet service providers. The price of a turnkey Quick-Cell system starts at $11,980.
The Quick-Cell system, which requires no FCC license and can be launched in less than 48 hours and expanded to cover cities of any size, enables Internet access providers to immediately offer home and business customers always-on wireless "DSL" and "T-1" (broadband) Internet access at extremely competitive rates.
"I believe it is prudent for all new and existing Internet service providers to quickly explore and implement this new and exciting technology, to get in on the wireless Internet access revolution now," said Drew A. Hart, USURF America's Executive V.P. for Technolgy. "USURF America's Quick-Cell technology is extremely affordable and immensely valuable in the emerging high-speed Internet access segment," Mr. Hart concluded.
About USURF America
In Quick-Cell, USURF America has developed one of the most flexible fixed-wireless Internet access delivery solutions on the market, one which operates in unlicensed spectrum and can be easily and inexpensively deployed, often in a matter of hours. Quick-Cell's bandwidth speed is scalable, up to and including T1-line (1.544Mb/s) equivalent, and bandwidth usage by customers can be monitored and controlled from a single location with USURF America's proprietary software. Quick-Cell service also has so-called voice over Internet (VOIP) capability. With the Quick-Cell system, no telephone or other wall jack connection is necessary to connect to the Internet over the so-called last mile.
Quick-Cells can help CLECs and telcos meet the demand from customers who presently are unable to get DSL and other high-speed Internet access services.
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VoIP Telecom Inc. (OTCBB:VOPT) Wednesday confirmed the company's completion of a purchase agreement to acquire International Communications and Equipment (ICE) of Kirkland Lake, Washington. Under the agreement, ownership of all the assets of ICE transfers to VoIP Telecom in return for which VoIP Telecom will provide all capital necessary to implement the ICE business plan. The Founder-President-Owner of ICE, Ken Martin, receives 2.5 million shares of VoIP Telecom issued under rule 144, with a restrictive legend for a one-year hold.
The primary business of ICE is the deployment of digital, voice and data via fiber optic, Internet circuit (VoIP), satellite and public switched telephone networks (PSTNs). The company's network roll-out is commencing in Germany and Russia, utilizing hardware (gateways, digital signal processors and routers) coupled with existing fiber optic and satellite networks via both originating and terminating facilities installed initially in North America, Europe and the Middle East. Subject to equipment installation, the forecast annual profit from ICE's Germany-Russia operations alone is in excess of USD30 Million from generating up to 500 million voice minutes. ICE also has projects pending in Poland, The Ukraine, Thailand, Malta, The Lebanon, Malaysia, Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, Jordan, Libya., Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Italy, Greece, France, Norway, Azerbaijan and Georgia.
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June 15, 2000--STARTEC Global Operating Company, an American provider of VoIP data and Internet services to merging economies, has announced the signing of an agreement with Korea Posts & Telecommunications Company (KPTC) of North Korea. STARTEC will provide VoIP services, becoming the only US company to have direct telecom links with KPTC. "This agreement positions STARTEC to provide essential communications links at a time when North and South Korea are taking their first concrete steps toward reconciliation," said Tony Das, STARTEC's Chief Operating Officer for Online Services and Global VoIP Deployment. While US sanctions currently prohibit most commercial activities between US companies and North Korea, a partial lifting of sanctions in January 1995 opened up telecommunications to an extent.
June 15, 2000--Next Level Communications, Inc. a leader in ATM/IP interactive DSL broadband systems, today announced that they signed a $50 million dollar, two year agreement to provide its broadband NLevel3 Unified Access Platform to ExOp of Missouri, Inc., a Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) and a subsidiary of UtiliCorp. ExOp currently offers video and data services in cities and towns in Kansas City, Missouri and surrounding communities.
June 15, 2000--At VON Europe 2000, Blue Wave Systems Inc. will demonstrate the ComStruct(TM) CPCI/C5421 Voice/Fax/Data over IP solution, providing voice over IP gateway and fax relay gateway capability between Blue Wave Systems Inc. booth #326 and those of Motorola Computer Group #121/123, Sun Microsystems Inc. , #422/424, and Texas Instruments Incorporated #220/319. The demonstration will show the ComStruct CPCI/C5421 high density Voice and Fax over IP solution, including TI's programmable TMS320C5000(TM) digital signal processor (DSP) platform and Telogy Software(TM) for Voice and Fax over IP applications, together with CompactPCI(R) technology from Motorola Computer Group and Sun Microsystems.
June 15, 2000--AsiaInfo Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq:ASIA), a leading provider of Internet infrastructure solutions and software products in China, and Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., one of the leading network solutions providers, announced today the successful integration of AsiaInfo's billing software for IP-based telephony, AIOBS VoIP, and Huawei's network access gateway, Quidway(R) A8010. The bundling of these two products provides an end-to-end solution for IP Telephony Service Providers and offers value-added VoIP services, such as Virtual Private Networks (VPN) and 800 number services for the growing Internet market in China.
June 13, 2000--Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq:BRCM), the leading provider of integrated circuits enabling high speed broadband communications to and throughout the home and business, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Innovent Systems, Inc., a pioneer in the development and commercial integration of radio frequency (RF) integrated circuits for short-range wireless data communications, including the world's first fully integrated RF transceiver in pure digital CMOS. Innovent's recently announced Blutonium(TM) family of Bluetooth(TM) transceivers and systems extends Broadcom's communications leadership firmly into the wireless space, specifically the short-range market which analysts estimate will be a multi-billion dollar industry in the next few years. Innovent's patent-pending implementation of RF technology in a standard digital CMOS integrated circuit process provides significant cost and manufacturing advantages for short-range wireless products.
June 15, 2000--PUMATECH, Inc. (Nasdaq:PUMA), the leading provider of the essential software infrastructure for the ubiquitous mobile Internet, today announced version 3.5 of its Satellite Forms(TM) Enterprise Edition software, providing full support for Windows 2000. Additionally, Satellite Forms Enterprise Edition version 3.5 will provide full compatibility with Palm(TM) OS 3.5 (Palm IIIc). (The new version does not currently support Palm IIIc color capabilities; this support will be included in future releases of the product.) Satellite Forms 3.5 will also have the ability to generate sync tables as either db5 or mdb (Microsoft Access) databases, and includes a redesigned architecture for the Satellite Forms runtime engine that will enable developers to create plug-ins to support additional devices and database formats.
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