ICOA Reaches 1,000 Wi-Fi Location Milestone
February 23 2005 - 9:28AM
PR Newswire (US)
ICOA Reaches 1,000 Wi-Fi Location Milestone WARWICK, R.I., Feb. 23
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ICOA, Inc., (OTC:ICOA) (BULLETIN BOARD:
ICOA) announced today it now provides wireless broadband Internet
service to 1,000 high-traffic public locations in a national
network across 43 states. "ICOA entered the broadband wireless and
Wi-Fi industry in October of 2003. Since then, we have aggressively
grown and acquired the expertise, infrastructure and assets
required for a scalable national broadband wireless provider," said
ICOA president Rick Schiffmann. "While this is an important
milestone for ICOA at this early stage of our development, we are
looking to continue on our aggressive growth trajectory for all of
our vertically focused operating units (airports, marinas, QSR and
metro zones) as well as our turn- key design, deployment,
management and customer care capabilities." "We are also pleased to
see growth in end-user demand exceeding our projections,"
Schiffmann added. "Our network operations centers currently process
more than 65,000 sessions per week, more than half of which
represent unique subscribers." About ICOA, Inc. ICOA, Inc. is a
leading provider of neutral-host wireless and wired broadband
Internet networks in high-traffic public locations. ICOA provides
design, installation, operations, maintenance and management of
neutral, common-use 802.11x standard WLAN Wi-Fi hot spot and hot
zone infrastructure throughout airport facilities, quick-service
restaurants, marinas, hospitality and hot zone locations. ICOA
currently owns or operates 1,000 broadband access installations in
high-traffic locations across 43 states. For additional
information, visit http://www.icoacorp.com/ . An investment profile
about ICOA may be found online at
http://www.hawkassociates.com/icoa/profile.htm . For more
information, contact Frank Hawkins or Julie Marshall, Hawk
Associates, at (305) 852-2383, e-mail: . An online investor kit
containing ICOA press releases, SEC filings, current Level II price
quotes, interactive Java stock charts and other useful information
for investors can be found at http://www.hawkassociates.com/ and
http://www.hawkmicrocaps.com/ . The foregoing contains
"forward-looking statements," which are based on management's
beliefs, as well as on a number of assumptions concerning future
events and information currently available to management. Readers
are cautioned not to put undue reliance on such forward-looking
statements, which are not a guarantee of performance and are
subject to a number of uncertainties and other factors, many of
which are outside ICOA's control, that could cause actual results
to differ materially from such statements. For a more detailed
description of the factors that could cause such a difference,
please see ICOA's filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission. ICOA disclaims any intention or obligation to update or
revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new
information, future events or otherwise. This information is
presented solely to provide additional information to further
understand the results of ICOA. DATASOURCE: ICOA, Inc. CONTACT:
Frank Hawkins or Julie Marshall, both of Hawk Associates,
+1-305-852-2383, or , for ICOA, Inc. Web site:
http://www.icoacorp.com/ http://www.hawkassociates.com/
http://www.hawkmicrocaps.com/
http://www.hawkassociates.com/icoa/profile.htm
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