ICOA Company AuthDirect Unveils New OSS Platform TollBooth(TM) 3.0 Jupiter Media Nominates TollBooth(TM) as Finalist for 'Best of Show' WARWICK, R.I. and SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AuthDirect, an ICOA company (OTC:ICOA) (BULLETIN BOARD: ICOA) , announced today the release of TollBooth(TM) 3.0, a fully customizable OSS platform for the global Wi-Fi hot spot and hot zone industry. TollBooth 3.0 has been nominated by Jupiter Media as a finalist for its "Best of Show" award. AuthDirect provides powerful, scalable and flexible management and billing service products to carriers, wireless operators and WISPs in the global hot spot market. Earlier versions of its solutions have powered hot spots for customers such as McDonald's, Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Nordstrom, Taco Bell and Tully's Coffee and currently serve a wide array of high-traffic public locations including numerous Metro Zones, airports, major marinas, RV parks and rapidly expanding national networks with customers such as Panera Bread and Au Bon Pain. Supported by ICOA's family of national Wi-Fi companies, TollBooth 3.0 can process over 1 million transactions per day. Its full solution suite enables rapid service provisioning of large, national deployments, often in only minutes, and includes superior reporting and monitoring, enabling real-time decision support. Key features of Tollbooth include: * Scalable service engine across multiple data centers, * Modular architecture accommodating "plug-in" resource upgrades as load increases, * Service platform can scale as well as enable segmentation of large national networks, * 100% control of the end-user branded experience, * Consistent service delivery across all hardware devices and * Open framework allowing total customization. Kevin Quaintance, General Manager of AuthDirect, said, "The TollBooth 3.0 OSS platform is the result of five years of field and customer-tested research and development. Customers want flexibility, scalability and customization. TollBooth 3.0 provides these key features at a price point and simplicity of operation that will continue to drive down the costs of both complex national deployments and specialized Wi-Fi networks." AuthDirect is showcasing TollBooth 3.0 at the Wi-Fi Planet Conference & Expo in San Jose, December 1-2 in Booth #227. Tollbooth(TM) 3.0 is available for immediate deployment. For more information, please visit http://www.authdirect.com/ . About ICOA, Inc. Headquartered in Warwick, R.I., 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 over 650 broadband access installations in high-traffic locations serving more than 100 million annual patrons, including the San Francisco International Airport (SFO), Spokane International Airport (GEG), the Greater Baton Rouge, La. Airport (BTR), Sacramento International Airport (SMF), Manchester Airport (MHT), Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport (SAV), Fresno-Yosemite International Airport (FYI), Killeen Municipal Airport (GRK), 450 Panera Bread locations, 36 marinas in California and Virginia, and hot zones in Lexington, Ky. and Rhode Island's Newport Harbor. 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 John Balbach at (401) 352-2368. For investor relations information, contact Frank Hawkins or Julie Marshall, Hawk Associates, at (305) 852-2383, e-mail: . Detailed information about ICOA, Inc. can be found on the website http://www.icoacorp.com/. An online investor kit containing ICOA press releases, SEC filings, current price Level II 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: John Balbach, ICOA, Inc., +1-401-352-2368; or Frank Hawkins or Julie Marshall, both of Hawk Associates, +1-305-852-2383, or , for ICOA, Inc. Web site: http://www.icoacorp.com/

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