SILVER SPRING, Md. -- CityNet TelecommunicationsInc., the leader in last-mile broadband infrastructure, today announced thatit has signed a landmark license and access agreement with the City ofVienna, Austria, permitting the company to use Vienna’s sewer system tobuild last-mile fiber optic networks. Vienna becomes CityNet’s firstEuropean city and the fourth city overall to sign such an agreement. CityNetis the only broadband company offering this revolutionary approach tosolving the problem of how to connect individual buildings to large fiberoptic networks that typically circle around cities.

“Mayors and city government executives in cities around the world face theunusual dilemma where they know they need the best in broadband fiber opticinfrastructure, but they don’t want to sacrifice their existinginfrastructure - their streets and roads - in order to receive that benefit,” said Robert G. Berger, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer ofthe Silver Spring, Maryland-based CityNet. “We’ve found a smarter solutionand an ideal pathway to deploy fiber optic networks - the sewer system. Thesewer system is one of the deepest and most protected of all cityinfrastructures, and it connects into every building. In the truest sense,CityNet is pioneering a real solution to solving the last-mile problem,something the telecommunications world has been waiting on for decades.”

CityNet Telecommunications Inc.