Hosting.com provides free WiFi hot spot to downtown Louisville
October 8, 2004- (Louisville, KY) Louisville-based Hosting.com, Inc. (www.hosting.com) announced today that it now offers a free WiFi hot spot outside Hosting.com's worldwide headquarters on 4th Street in downtown Louisville. Hosting.com's tests show its powerful WiFi signal should provide coverage outdoors and in most bars and restaurants located across the street from Hosting.com's headquarters.
Hosting.com is launching this service as part of the Company's entrance into the wireless connectivity business with its exclusive wireless partner iSkyWire, LLC. This is the first step in a series of initiatives the two companies have developed to bring affordable, reliable, and secure high speed Internet connectivity to businesses in the Greater Louisville market.
"Not only will laptops be able to tap into Hosting.com huge Internet pipes, but most PDA's cell phones and hand-helds will also be WiFi-enabled on 4th Street," comments Chuck Deaton, Partner of Operations at iSkyWire. "We are proud to be able to display our best-of-breed technology through our Hosting.com partnership in Louisville's fastest growing entertainment district," continues Deaton. "The entire process will be simple and easy for the end user. Users simply view our splash page and within milliseconds they are surfing the Internet at speeds up to 54 Megabits per second."
"We have been very impressed with the technology and the management team at iSkyWire, and we are excited to be able to work with iSkyWire to provide our clients with tomorrow's Internet connectivity solution today," adds Darren King, President and CEO of Hosting.com.
About Hosting.com
Since 1996, Hosting.com, the First Name in Hosting, has provided award-winning dedicated hosting, managed hosting, colocation, disaster recovery and business continuance services to a global customer base demanding a high level of security, reliability and responsiveness. Hosting.com monitors, manages, and enhances the web based platforms of Web 2.0 companies, software as a service providers (SaaS), content distribution networks (CDN), and medium to large enterprises whose web presence is crucial and high availability mandatory. Hosting.com currently owns and operates its proprietary content delivery grid (CDG) via data center facilities in Louisville, Kentucky; Irvine, California; San Francisco, California; and Boston, Massachusetts. For more information, please visit www.hosting.com or call the company at 800-446-7627.
About iSkyWire
iSkyWire, LLC is one of the largest wireless service providers in the Greater Louisville area. iSkyWire has been providing the next generation wireless technology (based on the 802.16 WiMax platform) to provide Internet connectivity to businesses in Greater Louisville. iSkyWire's service offers a number of key customer benefits, including rapid installation, business-class reliability and service scalability beyond what is typically available from other service providers. For more information on iSkyWire, visit www.iskywire.com.
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