ICOA Company AuthDirect Wins Hot Spot 'Best of Show' Award WARWICK, R.I. and SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AuthDirect, an ICOA (OTC:ICOA) (BULLETIN BOARD: ICOA) company, announced today it was awarded "Best of Show" for its TollBooth(TM) 3.0 product at Jupitermedia Corporation's Wi-Fi Planet in San Jose, Calif. TollBooth is a fully customizable OSS platform for the global Wi-Fi hot spot and hot zone industry. The awards were presented to exhibiting companies displaying the most compelling technologies or services that have been released over the past six months. AuthDirect's TollBooth product won "Best of Show" in the hot spots category. In announcing the award, a Jupitermedia representative said, "The Tollbooth-managed service has ... a clear interface and incredible flexibility in allowing a customer to brand and bill in a variety of ways and at separate venues." Other categories and companies awarded at the show were Mesh Infrastructure (BelAir Networks), Security and Management (InterLink Networks), Network Design (Wireless Valley) and WLAN Equipment (Colubris Networks). 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. Kevin Quaintance, general manager of AuthDirect, said, "Jupitermedia's recognition of TollBooth validates 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." 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. Rick Schiffmann, president of ICOA, said, "We are pleased to receive Jupitermedia's recognition of AuthDirect as a best-in-class OSS solution suite. Looking forward, we will continue to invest in the development of the AuthDirect product suite to fulfill the customer-driven requirements of this emerging industry." 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. Tollbooth 3.0 is available for immediate deployment. For more information, 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 tens of millions of 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 of 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.authdirect.com/ http://www.icoacorp.com/ http://www.hawkassociates.com/icoa/profile.htm http://www.icoacorp.com/ http://www.hawkmicrocaps.com/

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