Towerstream Announces First Pre-WiMAX T1 Solution With 99.999% Guarantee

18 May 2006

Towerstream, the leading fixed wireless Internet provider and WiMAX Forum member, announced today that it is offering New York City businesses the first ever last mile T1 solution with a guaranteed 99.999% uptime. The service called High-Availability T1+ (HI-VI T1+) and offered for $600/month, will be backed by Towerstream's leading Service Level Agreement (SLA). More information can be found on the Towerstream website at http://www.towerstream.com. The initial offering is available for businesses in New York City and will roll out to select cities in the coming months.

Under the terms of new T1 offering, businesses are guaranteed to receive 99.999% availability 24 hours a day, seven days a week and 365 days a year. Customers who purchase the Hi-Vi T1+ product are assured their service will have less than a minute of downtime per month. Any additional service interruptions will be covered under the terms of the SLA agreement and customers will be credited the appropriate amount pending on the length of the outage if one ever occurs.

Towerstream is able to offer the Hi-Vi T1+ by providing customers with two separate T1 connections, each pointing at different base stations around the city. By doing this, Towerstream provides true last mile redundancy to its customers in need of a reliable broadband service. This combined with Towerstream's wireless sonnet ring in the sky gives customers a complete wireless broadband solution.

"Customers need highly reliable connections to the internet that can be quickly and easily installed and scalable for the future growth," said Jeff Thompson, President and CEO of Towerstream. "As businesses look to utilize the latest technologies such as VoIP and video, they need complete insurance that their Internet connections will not go down and can support many applications running simultaneously 24/7. By completely bypassing the telephone companies' legacy infrastructure and controlling our own network, Towerstream can guarantee its wireless service with 99.999% reliability. Based on the tremendous feedback we are receiving, we look forward to rolling out the Hi-Vi T1+ internet service in select Towerstream cities throughout the country."

Towerstream's service offers businesses reliable T1 and 100 Mbps connections, digital voice lines (VoIP), bandwidth-on-demand, wireless redundancy, VPNs, disaster recovery, bundled data, and video services.

About Towerstream

Towerstream is the leading fixed wireless service provider in the U.S., delivering high-speed Internet access to businesses. Founded in 2000, the company has the largest pre-WiMAX deployment serving such markets as New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, the greater Boston, Providence and Newport, R.I. areas, and is aggressively expanding coverage throughout the country. The company was the first carrier selected to join the WiMAX Forum to assist leading vendors in establishing industry compliance with international broadband wireless access standards and cross-vendor interoperability. For more information on Towerstream, please visit their website at http://www.towerstream.com/.

Source: prnewswire