MEDIA RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

 

RemotePipes and DockPoint Bring Global Roaming Internet Access

To Fixed Broadband Wireless Customers

 

 

MINNEAPOLIS, MN and RALEIGH, NC (May 12th, 2005) - RemotePipes, Inc. today announced that DockPoint, one of the nation's leading alternative broadband service providers, has selected RemotePipes to provide worldwide mobile Internet services for DockPoint's business and residential customers throughout the Southeastern United States.

 

DockPoint customers already enjoy high-speed Internet access via one of the nation's largest Broadband Wireless networks, covering hundreds of square miles of Central and Eastern North Carolina. DockPoint also offers a robust set of traditional and customized DSL-based fixed line solutions throughout North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.

 

Adding RemotePipes' leading IP Roamer solution will ensure DockPoint customers now have best of breed access options in the office, the home and on the road. With Wi-Fi and dial-up roaming coverage in over 130 countries, via more than 35,000 global dial-up access numbers and over 15,000 global hotspots, DockPoint's IP Roamer users will be able to keep in contact almost anywhere they go.

 

IP Roamer's online account provisioning and management, 24/7 live technical support, real time billing and settlement, single username and password and IP Roamer's intelligent access client, with built in Wi-Fi signal locator, will also help ensure that users are not burdened by access on the road, instead turning a challenging process into a powerful tool to remain connected and in touch.

 

"With the IP Roamer offering, we're continuing our tradition of bringing leading-edge solutions to those markets we serve," stated Michael Bavaro, Managing Partner of DockPoint, LLC. "We view this product as another natural beam in our bridge across the digital divide in the Southeast"

 

Eric Engbers, President of RemotePipes, stated, "We are excited to be working with broadband wireless provider that has the size and experience of DockPoint."He added, "We feel that cost-effective and reliable high-speed access alternatives are critical to encouraging business growth and applaud providers like DockPoint for leveraging technology to bring new options to otherwise underserved or undercompetitive markets. We hope to continue partnering with companies in this space as their competitive nature and heavy customer focus will certainly prove attractive to business and residential customers in the coming years."

 

Availability

 

The IP Roamer service is available immediately for all new and existing DockPoint customers. To learn more about the service or sign-up online, customers can visit www.dockpoint.com.

 

About RemotePipes

 

RemotePipes, Inc. is a leading provider of worldwide mobile Internet access solutions for individuals and small and medium-sized businesses and organizations. As the industry's only self-service global aggregator, RemotePipes has pioneered a new business model that provides the best combination of pricing, global coverage, Web-based account management and reporting capabilities available.

 

RemotePipes delivers dial-up and WiFi services to thousands of clients at small and medium-sized businesses as well as leading Fortune 2000 companies. The company markets its services directly to end users, and through partners including cable MSOs, DSL broadband providers, ISPs, retailers, ILECs and CLECs. RemotePipes enables its channel partners to become Internet global virtual network operators (GVNOs) and mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs).

 

To find out more information about the company, email sales@remotepipes.net or visit the RemotePipes websites at www.remotepipes.net and www.iproamer.com . To reach RemotePipes Inc. by telephone, call toll free at 888-281-6575 or local at 651-365-0500.

 

About DockPoint

 

DockPoint is a leader in next generation wireless broadband technologies, operating one of the nation's largest fixed broadband wireless networks spanning hundreds of square miles of North Carolina.

 

As a full service provider DockPoint also offers a full suite of data solutions including; fixed line, wireless T1 and last mile solutions, wireless Point-to-Point dedicated circuits, MDU and campus wireless deployments.

 

For new or existing service providers seeking to deploy broadband wireless networks, DockPoint offers a complete range of services from network engineering and design through full turnkey WISP implementations, all leveraging years of production proven wireless technology expertise.

 

For more information, visit www.dockpoint.com or call toll free at 877.222.2004 or local at 919.550.7611.

 

 

For more information, please contact:

 

 

RemotePipes, Inc.

Eric Engbers

(919) 553-1888

eric@remotepipes.net

 

DockPoint, LLC

Michael Bavaro

(919) 550-7611

mbavaro@dockpoint.net