Quiconnect

August 10, 2004

Quiconnect enables WiFi at Olympics with OTEnet

Quiconnect, a leader in roaming services solutions announced it has completed a deal with the Athens based Internet and IP services provider, OTEnet, which allows Quiconnect to provide roaming services to travellers in Greece during the Summer Olympic Games. Visitors operating their laptop or PDA will now be able to get connected at OTEnet’s OnWireless WLAN hotspots throughout Greece, utilising Quiconnect’s service.

Quiconnect provides complete and flexible roaming services on a cost efficient basis. The service provides a remarkably simple connection for the user, who continues to use one account provider. End users have ease of use, and account providers increase their revenue at low cost, while reducing roaming resource requirement.

"We at Quiconnect are most pleased to be working with OTEnet during this exciting time in history," said Troy Simoni, Quiconnect CEO. ";The Games will of course bring visitors from all around the world, and this year, for the first time in history, many of those visitors will be connected to their world back home via wireless broadband services. Visitors will at one moment be watching the games and the next be sending digital pictures, typing instant messages, or placing voice over IP calls from their hotel room in Athens back to their friends in their home country. And thanks to the partnership between OTEnet and Quiconnect, many will be able to use their familiar Internet or Mobile accounts from their own home countries to access OTEnet’s public wireless broadband hotspots, making life that much easier and the world seem that much smaller. This year in Athens, history meets the future."

Any operator who has a customer base and is interested in having their customers use hotspots in Greece should contact Quiconnect. Operators only have to follow a simple integration path to provide roaming through Quiconnect’s flexible solution. Then their customers will be able to seamlessly roam, keeping their login, password, and billing relationship.

About OTEnet

OTEnet S.A (www.otenet.gr), the leading Greek Internet and Internet Protocol Services Provider, was founded in 1996 by OTE and has been the key element of OTE's business strategy in the field of new technologies and Internet Protocol services. OTEnet has a reliable and extensive network that enables it to offer products and services covering a range of business and consumer needs. OTEnet offers Internet access and services, IP telecom solutions, IT application development and hosting services using Internet technologies.

About Quiconnect

Quiconnect is a specialist provider of systems integration and interconnectivity management solutions for telecommunications carriers in the wireless broadband sector.  Through its carrier-grade interconnection management platform, Quiconnect connects discrete commercial IP networks worldwide to create multiple custom-tailored virtual networks, uniquely configured and branded for individual carriers.  It provides unique technologies to simplify and securely automate user connections to these virtual networks, provides monitoring and support tools, manages accounting records, and provides financial settlement services in partnership with established clearing houses.

Quiconnect provides custom tools, technology and services to manage interconnections for multiple bilateral roaming and access agreements – ensuring end-to-end integrity, reducing costs, and enabling a consistent carrier-branded user interface across multiple networks, platforms and applications.

Headquartered in London UK, Quiconnect was founded in 2001 and operates offices in Grenoble, France and San Diego USA.  For more information, visit www.quiconnect.com.

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