GlobeTel Installs Wireless Network in Germany.FORT LAUDERDALE Fort Lauderdale (lô`dərdāl), residential, commercial, and resort city (1990 pop. 149,377), seat of Broward co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; settled around a fort built (c.1837) in the Seminole War, inc. 1911. , Fla. -- GlobeTel Communications Corp. (AMEX AMEX See: American Stock Exchange :GTE GTE General Telephone & Electronics GTE Génie Thermique et Énergie (French) GTE Gas Turbine Engine GTE Global Tropospheric Experiment GTE Geothermal Energy GTE Gas Turbine Efficiency plc (Sweden & USA) ) today announced that its GlobeTel Wireless subsidiary has installed a HotZone 4010-based 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 network in Heilbronn, Germany and is now conducting final testing of the network. The Heilbronn network is the company's first one to be completed in Germany, and will accommodate users of both broadband and wireless VoIP See voice over Wi-Fi. telephony over DECT (Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications) A cordless phone standard mostly used in Europe; however, DECT 6.0 is increasingly used worldwide. The first DECT standards were introduced by ETSI in 1992, and DECT phones have been used as cordless home phones as . The proprietary integration of DECT-enabling technology into the network permits a typical cordless household phone to behave as a short-range mobile phone with a reach of up to 800 meters from a HotZone 4010 base. Wi-Fi Internet access See how to access the Internet. will also be available within that range. Testing in Heilbronn has been conducted utilizing the network for Internet access and VoIP calls using a standard cordless DECT phone that is typical of the majority of the cordless phones sold in Germany. GlobeTel expects, in October, to begin to sign up customers and to provide those customers with access to an initial portion of the network, covering a specific geographic area. During this initial phase, GlobeTel will closely monitor the network's capacity and stability and, once satisfied, will provide customer access to additional areas of the network based upon demand. GlobeTel expects that it will be able to give customers access to the entire network, encompassing all network access points in the city, within approximately 60 days. Once the network is fully accessible, customers who subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; both the broadband and voice service will be able to access their account, surf the Web or place a voice call within any part of the city and to anywhere in the world, at low cost, over GlobeTel's VoIP network. The Company continues to build out HotZone wireless networks in the German cities of Kaiserslautern and Erfurt. It expects to begin marketing these additional networks to customers following the full activation of the Heilbronn network. The network is 100% owned and operated by GlobeTel, and will be marketed to both residential and commercial customers in each of these three German markets. About Heilbronn, Germany Located in the state of Baden-Wurttemberg, Heilbronn sits on the Neckar River Neckar River River, southwestern Germany. It rises in the Black Forest near the headwaters of the Danube River and is 228 mi (367 km) long. It flows north and northeast, passing Stuttgart. and is home to approximately 120,000 people. The city, at the junction of the A81 and A6 Autobahns, is approximately 100 km south of Frankfurt, and within short driving distance to Stuttgart. Its canal port is one of the most active inland ports in Germany. About GlobeTel Communications Corp. GlobeTel Communications Corp. develops and provides an integrated suite of telecommunications products and services, leveraging its advances in Stored Value, VoIP and Wireless Access technologies. Individually, each of GlobeTel's five business units function as distinct, stand-alone entities. Together they're the components of the Company's SuperHub(TM) worldwide VoIP network, currently in development and to consist of the Sanswire Stratellite(TM) platform and products enabling simpler, cheaper transmission of voice, data and money. Historically focused on developing overseas markets, the Company has begun selling VoIP services and testing wireless networks within the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Current and pending operations exist in Asia, Africa, Europe, South America, Mexico and the Caribbean. For more information, please visit: http://www.globetel.net Certain statements in this release constitute forward-looking statements or statements which may be deemed or construed to be forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. The words "forecast," "project," "intend," "expect," "should," "would," and similar expressions and all statements, which are not historical facts, are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements involve and are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which could cause the Company's actual results, performance (finance or operating) or achievements to differ from future results, performance (financing and operating) or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. |
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