NextWeb Relays World Series

FREMONT, Calif. -- NextWeb, Inc. California's leading fixed wireless Internet service provider, today announced it is providing hundreds of visiting international journalists covering the World Series in Anaheim with high-speed wireless Internet access. The journalists are using the wireless Internet connection to submit photographs and news stories of the major sports event to their respective publications. NextWeb's solution allows journalists to send and receive large stories and high resolution photographs at an unprecedented speed, ensuring the most up-to-date coverage of the event for the international community. The contract is a landmark achievement for the wireless Internet industry, and for NextWeb.

The 4Mbps connection at Edison Stadium was set up in three hours, and utilizes a transmitter that wirelessly relays data to a local base station, and from there to a direct connection to the Internet backbone. The stadium in Anaheim is using NextWeb's "Event Bandwidth" service, which the company has successfully provided for a number of major events throughout the country, including other professional sporting events, film festivals and cutting-edge movie premieres.

"Event Bandwidth is an ideal solution for the journalists at the stadium because they needed an extreme amount of bandwidth immediately and reliably, to cover the game well," said Graham Barnes, CEO of NextWeb. "With our wireless service, we can install up to 10Mbps of connectivity within a few days--hours, if necessary. For Edison Stadium project, we pinned down the details one morning, and by noon we had the service up and running--something that's only possible with wireless technology. Because we own and maintain our own network, we completely bypass telephone companies, giving our customers more bandwidth with better service, and at dramatically lower costs. This contract speaks to the growing credibility of fixed wireless as a reliable access method."

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