Telecom Selects RoamAD Wi-Fi Mesh - More Coverage

25 December 2005

Telecom Selects RoamAD Wi-Fi Mesh for More Coverage and

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AUCKLAND, New Zealand—December 21,

2005—Telecom New Zealand, the largest integrated

telecommunications provider in New Zealand, and RoamAD, the

leading supplier of carrier-grade wireless networking

software for citywide Wi-Fi networks, today announced that

Telecom has selected RoamAD’s platform to roll-out a

campus-wide Wi-Fi mesh network at Southland Institute of

Technology (SIT).

All students, faculty, and visitors to

SIT will soon be able to access the Internet and roam around

campus with any Wi-Fi enabled laptop, PDA or the new

dual-mode Wi-Fi/3G mobile phones, thanks to Telecom’s move

to cover most of the campus with a Wi-Fi mesh

network.

“SIT is always looking for ways to enhance the

campus for students and for its faculty staff. The new

network will complement our existing technology while

providing another option for how people connect to the

Internet and where they work,” SIT IT Co-ordinator Paul

Jennings said.

The SIT Wi-Fi mesh hotzone will form part

of Telecom’s growing nationwide network of more than 250

wireless hotspots and will be created using RoamAD’s

leading-edge software platform.

“After assessing the

available mesh networking solutions against Telecom’s

carrier-grade criteria, we settled on RoamAD’s feature rich,

standards based, remotely upgradeable platform,” said

Telecom WiFi Innovation Manager Kriv Naicker.

“There are

a lot of mesh vendors out there and RoamAD is one of our

platforms of choice as we work towards convergence. RoamAD

also has a very clear WiMAX roadmap, which is also important

to Telecom.”

Telecom will work with Gen-i and HP to

roll-out and integrate the mesh network.

Colin Henderson,

Director of HP New Zealand Communications, Media and

Entertainment practice confirmed that HP was pleased to

extend its partnership with Telecom in support of their mesh

network initiative with RoamAD.

“This incorporates HP’s

developed payment solution for WiFi networks, mesh networks

and WiMAX solutions such as that to be deployed at SIT” he

said.

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“Convergence is on our doorstep. It is pleasing to

see Telecom at the forefront of New Zealand’s mobile data

market deploying campus-wide mesh networks that will

complement and converge with the mobile networks,” said

Martyn Levy, RoamAD’s VP Business Development.

RoamAD now

has customers and networks in nine countries. The SIT mesh

network is expected to be operational in early 2006.

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About Telecom

Telecom provides tailored

communications solutions to business customers throughout

New Zealand and Australia. With a strong history in the New

Zealand market and a growing presence in Australia, Telecom

provides innovative and reliable information and

communications technology to enable customers to communicate

when, where and how they want. For more information, visit

www.telecom.co.nz.

About RoamAD

RoamAD(™) is the

leading supplier of carrier grade wireless software for

mobile data and mobile VoIP/VoWiFi enabled citywide Wi-Fi

mesh networks, highway Wi-Fi networks, campus hotzones and

wireless backhaul. RoamAD’s radio-agnostic, software-based

platform can be installed on commodity hardware. The

software platform is remotely upgradeable and is optimized

to support mobile broadband data, video and mobile

VoIP/VoWiFi. RoamAD’s roadmap includes 802.16 WiMAX and

Wi-Fi/cellular integration in accordance with

UMA/3GPP.

RoamAD is a trademark of RoamAD Holdings

Limited. All other brand or product names are trademarks or

registered trademarks of their respective holder(s). For

more information visit www.roamad.com.

About SIT

SIT is

an innovative tertiary institution offering a wide range of

post-graduate, degree, diploma and certificated programmes.

In 2000, SIT introduced the Zero Fee Scheme which enabled NZ

students to undertake its tertiary programmes without having

to pay any student tuition fee at all. SIT is based in

Invercargill, Southland and has campuses in Gore and

Christchurch.

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