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Company's STB and Internet Service to Support FreeLinQ's Private Virtual
Network and
Video-On-Demand
DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 10, 1999-- uniView Technologies Corp.
(Nasdaq:UVEW - news) is developing
customized set top boxes to deliver video-on-demand and Internet service
for FreeLinQ Communications Corp.'s private
virtual network.
Under the revenue sharing and licensing agreement, uniView is designing a
FreeLinQ-branded STB and customized software
for its exclusive use. The FreeLinQ-branded STB is designed to drive the
customer interface and integrate with FreeLinQ's
server and headend, as well as provide an Internet service interface for
multi-dwelling facilities (apartment buildings) that are
FreeLinQ customers. FreeLinQ, with the assistance of the Burak
Organization, expects to top 500,000 subscribers using the
unique uniView STB by the year 2001.
''This partnership with FreeLinQ underscores the vast opportunities we have
to develop exciting customized solutions for
deployment in numerous vertical markets,'' said Patrick A. Custer, president
and CEO of uniView Technologies Corp. ''The
software design expertise of our Advanced Systems Group team, combined
with the flexibility of our set top box technologies,
is rapidly garnering attention from numerous companies looking for
cost-effective ways to drive leading-edge applications to the
end user.''
The FreeLinQ Channel utilizes DSL technology to transport digital video
streams through existing copper telephone wiring of
multi-unit, high-rise facilities. The signal originates from a media server
located at FreeLinQ's headend, is transported over
public network facilities, then received at the resident's apartment via the
set-top box. The FreeLinQ STBs will provide video
and Internet access on both TVs and PCs. In 1998, FreeLinQ successfully
concluded its technical trial delivering
video-on-demand and T-1 speed Internet access from its headend at 11
Broadway, to the Trump Tower building at 721 Fifth
Ave. in New York City, covering a distance of seven miles through Bell
Atlantic's ATM public network.
''After careful research, we believe uniView Technologies is the only
company that can deliver the set-top box solution that we
need to deploy our VOD and Internet service nationally and
internationally,'' said Maury DiDomenico, president and CEO of
FreeLinQ Communications Corp.
Benefits of the FreeLinQ advertiser-supported system include the ability to
pause, rewind, and fast-forward videos, interrupt
videos for several days and choose from a frequently rotating content
library, all without ever leaving the couch. In addition,
users will be able to access the Internet at speeds of 1.5 mbps, which is over
52 times faster than 28.8 Kbps; the most
commonly used household connection speed.
The Burak Organization is an international real estate investment group
whose main focus is multi-dwelling units. For more
information on the company, please contact Michael Burak, president, at
212/972-5400.
FreeLinQ Communications, a New York City-based new media company, has
formed alliances with major property owners
and developers to reach its goal of introducing its video-on-demand and
high-speed Internet access services in major
metropolitan areas nationwide.
FreeLinQ Communications is in the business of bringing free
video-on-demand and high-speed Internet access on both TVs
and PCs into people's homes over existing telephone lines. FreeLinQ
provides its interactive services free of charge to its
customers through advertiser support, giving advertisers the benefit of
reaching and interacting with the customers they choose.
More information on FreeLinQ is available at www.freelinq.com.
Dallas-based uniView Technologies is the nation's only IT consultant that
offers the expertise and innovative tools necessary to
create fully customized interactive solutions for enterprise environments.
Building on a foundation rooted in convergence
technology and a deep understanding of business operations and the end
user, uniView merges proprietary and partner Internet
access technologies with existing applications to deliver the future of
interactive networking products and services. More
information on uniView and Network America is available at
www.uniview.net.
NOTICE: Some of this information may contain ''Forward Looking
Statements'' which are company plans, projections and
uncertainties. For a discussion of risk factors associated with some of these
plans and projections, please refer to the
company's SEC filings, which contain additional discussion about those
factors, which could cause actual results to differ from
management's expectations.
Contact:
Edelman Public Relations Worldwide
Reba Reid or Holly Vershum, 713/623-2666 or 214/520-3555
rreid@edelman.com or holly_vershum@edelman.com
or
uniView Technologies
Neal Katz, 214/503-8880
nkatz@uniview.net
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