New Service Introduces Radio Hot Zones

New Service Introduces Radio Hot Zones

Auckland, New Zealand: Kordia™ Group Limited (Kordia™) is about to launch an innovative new service that takes the traditional Wi-Fi hotspot and stretches it over a CBD area – so users can log-on wherever they are, whenever!

Starting in Auckland and Taupo, Kordia™ is rolling out a nationwide network of smart radio nodes that will deliver wireless access ‘hot-zones’ across target areas like university campuses, city CBDs, shopping precincts, transportation hubs and more. Unlike ‘hot-spots’, the user log-on is portable - both inside and outside - so long as users are in a Kordia™ Metro Wi-Fi coverage area.

As Kordia™’s Metro Wi-Fi network is supported by RoamAD’s optimised wireless networking platform, the Metro Wi-Fi network is optimized to support mobile broadband data as well as and mobile VoIP/VoWiFi. The network can be easily accessed with any Wi-Fi enabled device such as a laptop, PDA or cell phone.

Kordia™ CEO Geoff Hunt says that, in partnership with innovative internet service providers (ISPs) like Orcon, Tomizone, FIVO, Bunker Media and KiwiWireless, Kordia™ will be pushing the Metro Wi-Fi service out to New Zealand’s savviest end-users from today.

“This is Kordia™’s first foray into the consumer market and another step towards bringing people and technology closer.

“Convergence means that New Zealanders want widespread, portable access to the internet, their email, voice data and more. Kordia™ Metro Wi-Fi will deliver all that using a low-cost, high-value ‘user-pays’ business model that works,” says Hunt.

“Kordia has combined an innovative, open-access business model with a pragmatic and targeted deployment plan to deliver cost-effective mobile broadband access for business travellers, tourists and cities throughout New Zealand,” said Martyn Levy, RoamAD’s CEO.

“RoamAD is delighted to be a part of bringing better broadband access in metro areas to New Zealanders,” added Levy.

Taupo is the first city to ‘go-live’ in the phase one rollout, with the Auckland suburbs of Parnell, Ponsonby, Remuera and Karangahape Road also running the service.

Wi-Fi users will soon be able to access the service in nearly 20 locations around New Zealand – around eight (including Whangarei, Auckland, Taupo, Dunedin, Wellington, Queenstown, Invercargill, Hamilton and Rotorua) are already up and running on Kordia™ building sites.

“The simplicity and cost-effectiveness of the service means that Kordia™ expects strong take-up over the next three years, with a vision for targeted Metro Wi-Fi coverage in every New Zealand city by 2010,” says Hunt.

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For more information, please contact:
Emma Morrison, Kordia™ Communications and Brand Manager
+64 21 916 647 / emma.morrison@kordia.co.nz /www.kordiasolutions.com
www.kordiametrowifi.com

About Kordia™
Kordia™ is an experienced trans-Tasman business with a new name, and is one of the region's leading providers of customised broadcast and telecommunications networks, network services and converged solutions.

Kordia™ owns one of the largest telecommunications networks in New Zealand and is the major provider of television and radio broadcast facilities. In Australia, Kordia™ provides design, build and maintenance services to the broadcast and mobile telecommunications sectors as well as engineering services throughout the region.

Kordia™’s business is built on creating harmonisation – the ability to meld customers’ ideas into an operating reality, managing technology convergence in today’s fast moving world.

The name Kordia™ comes from the Latin ‘accordia’ meaning harmony – bringing people and technology together as one. For more information, please go to www.kordiasolutions.com or www.kordiametrowifi.com

About RoamAD
RoamAD supplies a wireless networking platform for next-generation converged wireless networks for the metro Wi-Fi and converged Wi-Fi/WiMAX markets. RoamAD networks are unmatched in flexibility, technical functionality and economics.

RoamAD's platform supports any combination of 900 MHz, 2.4 GHz, 4.9 GHz and 5 GHz in a four-radio wireless node configuration. RoamAD wireless nodes are WiMAX backhaul agnostic with a roadmap to full support for 802.11n. RoamAD networks are remotely upgradeable and optimized to support mobile broadband data and mobile VoIP/VoWiFi.

For more information see www.roamad.com.

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