Quicconnect Services France

LONDON -- Quiconnect announces that it has signed a contract to offer global service providers access to WLAN hotspots operated by ADP Télécom. This is a significant win for the company as ADP Télécom runs some of the most prestigious and popular WLAN hotspots in France. These include airports such as Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Paris-Orly, Lyon, Clermont-Ferrand, Toulon, Lille, Montpellier, 36 business hotels in the Alliance Hospitality Group[1], Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, the largest exhibition centre in France[2], the Concorde La Fayette hotel, and The Palais de Congrès, a leading convention centre in Paris.

Quiconnect assists telecom operators to better serve their customers by offering branded wireless voice and data services to create virtual networks, along with all associated technical and financial interconnectivity. This approach has clear advantages not only for service providers themselves who benefit from dynamic wholesale pricing, easy network monitoring and presence management capability - a key requirement to facilitate public access voice over IP and voice over Wi-Fi - but corporate end-users who have simplified WLAN log in through 'virtual' landing pages branded to their familiar telco.

Troy Simoni, Quiconnect's chief executive officer, says, "Our focus is all about providing service providers quality footprint to extend their networks virtually. Their corporate customers want easy Wi-Fi access as they travel internationally and the deal negotiated with ADP Télécom reflects this. Both the commercial aspects and technical interoperability between their systems and ours were done swiftly - a clear sign that ADP Télécom sees the huge potential of our business model."

Benoît Vedel, ADP Télécom's strategy director explains, "We are a specialist in telecommunications networks and services at airports and other sites in France with high volumes of business traffic. Clearly Quiconnect is innovating in the whole area of service provider interconnectivity and this agreement will enable us to attract a far broader international customer base for our Wi-Fi hotspot infrastructure."

ADP Télécom has over 40 years experience in providing telecom services at airports in the Paris region and is both an operator and integrator serving, amongst others, the requirement of 1,350 businesses operating at Roissy Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports. The company currently provides Wi-Fi access to some 80 million customers who pass through the French airports and the other business locations under its management.

Serving 96% of the Fortune 500 companies, Sprint has been developing its Wi-Fi presence extensively in the USA over the past several years. In April 2005, Sprint announced that it was working with Quiconnect to extend its WLAN coverage outside America.

Mark Brigman, Sprint's WLAN business development manager, explains, "The majority of our business users are travelling with Wi-Fi technology and to simplify log in we launched our Extended Workplace(tm) software for clients' laptops. This identifies and displays a menu of connectivity choices and gives users the option to point, click and get connected regardless of the access type[3]. Extended Workplace ensures that customers benefit from a secure, simple and consistent Sprint-branded user experience wherever they are around the world."

Quiconnect Ltd.