MCI's SkyTel Unplugs Lexington, Kentucky, With New Wi-Fi Service
16 November 2005 - 11:00PM
PR Newswire (US)
Businesses, Residents and Visitors to Benefit from High-Speed
Wireless Internet CLINTON, Miss. and LEXINGTON, Ky., Nov. 16
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MCI, Inc.'s (NASDAQ:MCIP) SkyTel unit
today introduced UnpluggedCity(SM) wireless broadband services for
businesses, residents and visitors in Lexington, Kentucky, as part
of a SkyTel pilot program to test Wi-Fi service in various markets.
Under a cooperative agreement with the city, SkyTel has designed
and built a Wi-Fi "hot zone" that it will own and manage to
immediately deliver this innovative new service in Lexington's
downtown area. "People are increasingly looking for new ways to
stay connected," said Bruce Deer, SkyTel president. "UnpluggedCity
combines SkyTel's expertise delivering wireless mobility products
with MCI's IP network to offer advanced, easy-to-use Internet
connectivity to Lexington's downtown community." "Wi-Fi is a
cutting edge technology that will make Lexington even more
attractive to young professionals and potential employers," said
Lexington Mayor Teresa Ann Isaac. "I'm excited that SkyTel has
selected Lexington for this project to achieve another big step in
the revitalization of downtown Lexington by going wireless."
UnpluggedCity offerings, available by visiting
http://www.unpluggedcity.com/ or by calling 1-800-815-9544, include
pay-as-you-go service to longer term contracts for businesses and
residents. UnpluggedCity Enterprise -- with monthly rates at $575
(plus $999 installation) -- meets the larger bandwidth demands of
businesses as an alternative or backup to T1 service, with speeds
of up to 6 Mb per second. UnpluggedCity Residential Wireless
Broadband provides in-home Internet service at $24.99 a month and
UnpluggedCity Small Business Wireless Broadband has a monthly rate
of $69.99 a month. Both of these services provide Internet access
speeds of up to 3 Mb per second (twice as fast as standard DSL
service and approximately 75 times faster than standard dial-up)
with purchase of a "modem" to relay Wi-Fi signals into homes and
business structures. SkyTel is offering attractive discounts on
these services and modems for a limited time. Unplugged Traveler
offers instant broadband access to visitors with Wi-Fi- enabled
laptops or handhelds from locations within the UnpluggedCity
network for $5.99 an hour, $9.99 a day and $24.99 a month.
Lexington is the first market where SkyTel is rolling out
commercial Wi-Fi service. SkyTel's expertise operating wireless
data networks for both business as usual and "business unusual"
make it ideally suited to offer this innovative new service
throughout downtown Lexington. For example, in the aftermath of
Hurricane Katrina, SkyTel moved quickly to deploy emergency
wireless Internet networks in storm-ravaged Louisiana and
Mississippi in support of relief efforts. About SkyTel SkyTel, a
leading supplier of wireless data and messaging services, provides
wireless internet access, wireless e-mail, interactive two-way
messaging, wireless telemetry services, automatic vehicle location
(AVL) products and traditional text and numeric paging to customers
throughout the U.S. For additional information, go to
http://www.skytel.com/. About MCI, Inc. MCI, Inc. (NASDAQ:MCIP) is
a leading global communications provider, delivering innovative,
cost-effective, advanced communications connectivity to businesses,
governments and consumers. With one of the most expansive global IP
backbones and wholly-owned data networks, MCI develops the
converged communications products and services that are the
foundation for commerce and communications in today's market. For
more information, go to http://www.mci.com/. DATASOURCE: MCI, Inc.
CONTACT: Stefanie Scott, MCI Media Relations, 1-800-644-NEWS Web
site: http://www.mci.com/ http://www.unpluggedcity.com/
http://www.skytel.com/
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