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Press Release
For Immediate Release
Wi-Fi
Hotspot Lands in the Helm's Inn
Vancouver, British
Columbia, Canada, 2 April 2004 - Orca Wireless and
KooKu have provided the Helm's Inn at Beacon Hill Park
in Victoria, British Columbia with a Wi-Fi KooKu
hotspot service. This deployment aimed at consumers
and business users alike is part of successful strategy
led by Orca Wireless to provide wireless high speed
internet access in hotels, conference centres, cafes
and popular venues globally across Canada.
This KooKu service
allows Helm's Inn's guests to access the internet, email
and online services at broadband speeds, with a wire
less connection. KooKu is based on a prepaid system
of payment which allows complete flexibility of service
provision and removes the requirement for credit checks,
credit card support, etc, offering customers a fast
and easy to access Internet service. The Helm's Inn
will provide their guest with MicroAPs, a driver free
installation device replacing a wireless card, allowing
guests without Wi-Fi enabled laptops to access the service
- a cost effective, easy to use solution.
Keith Brown, Orca Wireless
Managing Director, said: "This agreement accelerates
the deployment of the KooKu Network throughout Canada
and offers both consumers and business users the opportunity
to access all online services in the comfort of their
own room at the Helm's Inn. The demand for high speed
wireless internet access is increasing and it has now
been evident that business users are opting for hotels
with this facility."
About Orca Wireless
Based in Surrey, BC, Orca
Wireless Solutions Ltd. are an established provider
of carrier grade WiFi equipment and services for public
and private access systems based around the IEEE 802.11
standard. Orca Wireless are also providers of satellite
and radio based telemetry communications, telemetry
RTUs, radio based industrial data communications and
top end SCADA software Orca Wireless are used to providing
and supporting equipment installed in high profile and
mission critical environments.
Orca Wireless' partnerships
with acknowledged world leaders ensure the provision
of first class solutions to support the needs of the
business areas serviced.
For more information please visit Orca Wireless' website
at www.orcawireless.com.
About KooKu
KooKu is part of the Chronos
Technology Group based in Gloucestershire, UK, with
offices in Stockholm, Sweden and Vancouver, Canada,
which is a business to business specialist provider
and system integrator of technical solutions for telecom
networks, satellite communication, remote monitoring
applications, line of site radio and RF equipment designers.
For more information, visit the KooKu website
on www.kooku.com.
For
more information and photography, please contact:
Jeff Martin
KooKu Limited
Tel: +44 (0)8454 66 00 11
Email: jeff.martin@kooku.com
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