Mobile phone users given the key to access the FatPort network and the world.s growing network of high-speed wireless access points
Offers easy roaming to 1.4 billion global mobile phone users
February 12, 2003 - Vancouver (Canada), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Boulogne (France), Lausanne (Switzerland), London (United Kingdom), Luxembourg (Luxembourg), Paris (France), Reykjavik (Iceland), Munich (Germany).
FatPort, an Ignition Point company, has teamed with Excilan and a global consortium of Wireless Internet Service Providers (WISP.s) and mobile phone carriers to implement a new authentication and payment platform that gives any mobile phone user access to any high-speed wireless Internet hotspot. As the system requires no extra hardware, software or configuration, customers need only have a working mobile phone to use the service.
.What is particularly innovative about the Excilan FUSE system is its absolute simplicity,. comments FatPort CEO, Sean O'Mahony. .After entering one of our locations, a potential customer just plugs their mobile phone number into the FatPort login screen, the FUSE system calls them back in their native language, gives them the price of accessing the FatPort network in their home currency, then lets them connect. Nothing new to learn! No passwords to remember..
Excilan.s authentication and payment platform consists of a multilateral agreement that allows any participating WISP or mobile phone carrier to sign just one roaming agreement with Excilan, putting an end to the negotiation of separate bilateral roaming agreements. To the end user, the net result is easy, transparent roaming on a world-wide network of hotspots using their mobile phones to gain access.
FatPort will bring the FUSE system online at all its current and future locations during February and March, 2003. In order to use the system potential customers must have an account with a mobile phone carrier that is an Excilan FUSE partner. Excilan expects a number of Canadian and US mobile phone carriers to join the system in the coming months.
.We are excited to be able to send subscribers from European mobile operators to the Canadian network of Fatport, showing that it is a truly global authentication and payment system. states Lodewijk Cornelius, Excilan CEO. .Fatport has been the first WISP to join the pilot phase and with the forward thinking of its team, it has been able to add some substantial features to the platform. We will ensure that Excilan can add genuine revenue streams to this new wholesale business. The diversity of its network and the solid business thinking of Fatport makes it for Excilan an excellent entry to the North American market..
FatPort is pleased to join the other Excilan members in the launch phase: four mobile phone carriers (Bouygues Telecom, Orange Switzerland, Siminn Iceland and another pan-European GSM operator) and four other wireless ISPs (Attingo, Megabeam, TLC Mobile, and WLAN AG) who have hotspots in 8 countries in North America and Europe.
About FatPort Corporation
FatPort is Canada's first and largest national wireless Internet service provider (WISP). Based in Vancouver, FatPort uses their custom-built FatPoint wireless access point that enables location owners to quickly establish a commercial FatZone. In each FatZone, FatPort allows anyone with a wireless-enabled laptop or PDA to access the Internet at speeds many times faster than cellular networks. FatPort is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ignition Point Technologies Corporation (TSX-VEN: IPN). (www.fatport.com).
About Excilan
Excilan is a company held by BrainHeart Capital AB (Sweden) that focuses on Wireless LAN with a solid belief that services should be developed from the end user perspective. Established in the heart of the city of Luxembourg, the company operates in a solid financial environment and in an excellent legal regulations framework allowing for multilateral clearing and settlement. Excilan is managed by professionals from the GSM Roaming, Data and Financial Clearing and IT industry.
(www.excilan.com)
About Ignition Point
Ignition Point Technologies Corp., a Vancouver-based broadband technology company, provides unique access and applications solutions to fixed and wireless network service providers. Ignition Point subsidiaries include TeraSpan Networks Inc. and FatPort Corporation. (www.ignitionpoint.ca)
For further information, please contact:
Mr. Malcolm McDonald
Media Relations, FatPort
604-608-6781
malcolm@fatport.com
Ms. Catherine Delrez
Press Contact, Excilan
+352-091-550-103
catherine.delrez@excilan.com
This release may contain certain forward-looking statements reflecting Ignition Point Technologies' current expectations in the broadband communications market. Investors are cautioned that all forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, including, without limitation, changes in market and competition, technological developments and potential downturns in economic conditions generally. Additional information on these and other potential factors that could affect the company's financial results are detailed in documents filed from time to time with the British Columbia Securities Commission.
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