Internet Connectivity Group and Airpath Wireless Team Up on Billable Wi-Fi Platform

Internet Connectivity Group, Inc. (ICG) today announced a partnership with Airpath Wireless, Inc. (Airpath) that will allow ICG to add Billable Wi-Fi as yet another revenue channel and valuable customer benefit to their already extensive and diverse bundle of 3G/4G centered solutions.

The Airpath Wireless Broadband Operational Support System (WiBOSS) platform enables a high degree of flexibility and management to providers by enabling customized service plans, unique web portals by venue, and highly detailed billing and reporting capabilities. By combining this back-end infrastructure with ICG's existing Mobile Media Spot hardware and technology, the hotspot venue operator is presented with a complete, turn-key truly wireless solution.

"Airpath is pleased to partner with ICG in order to bring a complete solution to the marketplace," said Richard D. Lane, president of Airpath Wireless. "We believe this combination will not only be a successful product offering for ICG and Airpath, but will create significant customer satisfaction for hotspot venue owners as well."

According to the company, ICG's Mobile Media Spot currently couples the best of Wi-Fi and 3G/4G mobile technologies, leveraging the widely available 3G cellular infrastructures to provide advertisers remote wireless access to their digital media locations. In addition to opening this gateway for content updates and management, the Mobile Media Spot serves as an access point, creating a Wi-Fi hotspot for the surrounding area. This in turn, provides a truly interactive experience to the end-user, incorporating additional revenue streams such as Billable Wi-Fi, SMS Short-code Messaging, Wireless Remote Content Filtering, and Persistent Banners/Ad Injection over Wi-Fi.

Future generations of ICG's Mobile Media Spot will consist of an all-in-one piece of hardware that combines a top-tier digital media player, content management software, static-state memory, 3/4G PCMCIA cellular data card, and a built in access point. "By partnering with Airpath and utilizing their expertise and infrastructure, we can simultaneously enhance our offerings and increase our customer's ROI," said Kurtis Van Horn, president of ICG. "We firmly believe that we are now able to offer the most cost-effective and only completely wireless digital media and Wi-Fi hotspot plug-n-play solution available today."