CORRECTING and REPLACING iPass to Integrate Swisscom Eurospot Wi-Fi Network.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers Wi Fi Planet 2003 CORRECTION...by iPass Inc. REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. & GENEVA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 3, 2003 In BW5281 issued Dec. 3, 2003: The subhead sub·head n. In both senses also called subheading. 1. The heading or title of a subdivision of a printed subject. 2. A subordinate heading or title. Noun 1. and first sentence of release contain an incorrect figure. The subhead should read iPass Will Work to Integrate the More Than 1,500 Swisscom Eurospot Hotspots (sted: iPass Will Work to Integrate the More Than 1,300 Swisscom Eurospot Hotspots). And the first graph, first sentence should read: more than 1,500 hotspots in 10 European countries (sted: more than 1,300 hotspots in 10 European countries). The corrected release reads: IPASS TO INTEGRATE SWISSCOM EUROSPOT WI-FI NETWORK See wireless Ethernet and 802.11. EUROPE'S LEADING WI-FI NETWORK OPERATOR, SWISSCOM EUROSPOT, AND IPASS WILL WORK TO INTEGRATE THE MORE THAN 1,500 SWISSCOM EUROSPOT HOTSPOTS ACROSS EUROPE INTO THE IPASS VIRTUAL NETWORK FOR ENTERPRISES iPass Inc. (Nasdaq:IPAS IPAS Iowa Physician Assistant Society IPAS Integrated Program Assessment System IPAS Inventory Product Assurance Surveillance IPAS Integrated Pressurized Air System (gas turbine systems) ) and Swisscom Eurospot (www.swisscom-eurospot.com), Europe's leading provider of Wireless broadband High-speed wireless transmission of data. What is "high" speed is always a changing number. Wireless systems are typically slower than land-based, wireline networks. In the past, wireless broadband started at 250 Kbps, whereas land-based broadband was generally considered to start at T1 Internet access See how to access the Internet. for business travelers, announced today an agreement to provide iPass customers with high-speed Wi-Fi Internet access at more than 1,500 hotspots in 10 European countries. These hotspots include business-oriented venues such as, hotels, airports, train stations, and conference and convention centers. The network aggregation agreement gives iPass the ability to integrate into its virtual network the extensive Pan-European Swisscom Eurospot network. Swisscom Eurospot is the leading Pan-European provider of broadband Internet See broadband. at business-oriented hotspots of well-known brands such as Hilton, Holiday Inn, Movenpick, and Steigenberger hotels; airports in Munich, Germany and Brussels, Belgium; and train stations such as Paddington Station in London. Currently Swisscom Eurospot is offering its broadband Internet access Broadband Internet access, often shortened to just "broadband", is high speed Internet access—typically contrasted with dial-up access over modem. Dial-up modems are generally only capable of a maximum bitrate of 56 kbit/s (kilobits per second) and require the full use of a service in Germany, the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Spain, and Italy. As performed with all of its roaming partners, iPass will validate all Swisscom Eurospot hotspots against rigorous quality assessment and operations tests and enable interoperability with the leading VPNs, personal firewall and policy management systems. Upon passing this battery of tests, the Swisscom Eurospot hotspot network will be certified by iPass as "Enterprise Ready" and will then be integrated into the iPass virtual network. More than 200 Swisscom Eurospot hotspots have already been tested and integrated. "iPass has created a business-oriented broadband footprint which leads this market," said Anurag Lal, vice president of business development at iPass. "Our partnership with Swisscom Eurospot, Europe's leading provider of wireless broadband for business travelers, can extend our Enterprise Ready Wi-Fi network coverage into important business venues throughout Europe. Integrating Pan-European venues such as major hotel chains and strategic airports means our users stay connected when and where they need it most." Frederic Gastaldo, chief executive officer at Swisscom Eurospot, added, "By integrating our hotspots with the iPass Global Broadband Roaming network, we now provide enhanced usability and security to iPass customers when using our service. Corporate IT departments highly value these features when supporting their mobile workforce." iPass is a software-enabled virtual network operator. Its iPass Corporate Access(TM) service interface gives mobile employees global access to their corporate network-based applications and data through an easy-to-use service interface, the award-winning iPassConnect(TM). This service is used by more than 400,000 users per month. The iPass service offering also gives IT departments at some of the world's largest enterprises enhanced control over network security policy and connectivity management. In the Fall of 2000, iPass began offering the first broadband roaming service for the enterprise. Today, the iPass Global Broadband Roaming (GBR GBR Great Britain GBR United Kingdom (ISO Country code) GBR Great Barrier Reef GBR Gesellschaft Bürgerlichen Rechts GBR Global Broadband Roaming GBR Ground-Based Radar GBR Great Bear Rainforest ) network spans 24 countries with over 2,800 Wi-Fi hotspots in 16 countries as well as over 1,200 Ethernet-enabled venues around the world. These 2,800 hotspots now active in the iPass network are a composite of Wi-Fi service offerings from 17 providers. As the company continues to build its broadband service See broadband and broadband service provider. at business-oriented venues, over 40 additional but as yet unintegrated providers with hotspots in 13 more countries also have GBR agreements in place with iPass. About Swisscom Eurospot Swisscom Eurospot is Europe's leading provider of wireless broadband internet access for business travellers. Swisscom Eurospot operates a network of locations across Europe offering broadband access See broadband and wireless broadband. , and has close exclusive working relationships with roaming partners (i.e. Swisscom Mobile and Telia Homerun). The business activities of Swisscom Eurospot extend throughout Europe, and are based on values that are typical of a company that has its roots in Switzerland: neutrality and partnership, quality and a sound financial footing. About iPass iPass Inc. (Nasdaq: IPAS) is a software-enabled virtual network operator (VNO VNO vomeronasal organ. ) that provides enterprise connectivity services permitting secure access to information and applications on corporate networks from over 150 countries around the world. iPass has built a global Internet network that comprises over 20,000 access points, including an iPass Global Broadband Roaming (GBR) footprint of over 2,800 Wi-Fi hotspots and 1,200 Ethernet enabled venues at business-oriented locations, such as airports, hotels and conference centers worldwide. The award-winning iPassConnect(TM) service interface simplifies the user connection experience and is easily deployed across multiple computing devices and operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . iPass service offerings also give enhanced control over security policy and connectivity management to information technology departments at iPass users like General Motors, Dow Corning Dow Corning is a multinational corporation headquartered in Midland, Michigan, USA. Dow Corning specializes in silicon and silicone-based technology, offering more than 7,000 products and services. Dow Corning is equally owned by The Dow Chemical Company and Corning, Inc. and Mellon Financial Please help [ convert this timeline] into prose or, if necessary, a . . Founded in 1996, iPass is headquartered in Redwood Shores, Calif., with offices throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe and Asia Pacific. For more information visit www.ipass.com. iPass(R) is a registered trademark of iPass Inc. The statements in this press release relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc the benefits to be obtained by using the iPass Global Broadband Roaming network are forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different than expectations. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the rate of Wi-Fi network integration which if slow would reduce the revenue opportunity for the Company; and changes associated with Wi-Fi pricing which if increased could result in a lower take rate for Wi-Fi services leading to lower demand for the services in question. Further information on potential factors that could affect the financial results of iPass are included in the section entitled "Risk Factors" in iPass' Prospectus filed on July 24, 2003, with the Securities and Exchange Commission. iPass assumes no obligations to update the information in this press release. |
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