Icoa Inc (ICOA)

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What does Boingo, Pacer Health, AuthDirect, Inc. possibly all have in common., if anything, with the future growth of ICOA going forward in 2011 ???
Interesting possibilities if you put the dots together with last months Super-Wi-Fi FCC news., about using this new FCC Approved Super Wi-Fi service in say Hospitals throughout the U.S. ?? IMO

http://www.pacerco.com/viewpress.php?id=95
Pacer Health Corporation Successfully Completes Assignment of $11.7 million in Convertible Debentures

MIAMI--(PR Newswire)—April 14, 2009--Pacer Health Corporation, a Miami-based firm specializing in the acquisition and management of financially distressed businesses announced today that it has completed a transaction with YA Global Investments, L.P., acquiring $11.7 million in convertible debentures. The transaction brings five additional companies into the Pacer portfolio and continues Pacer along its strategic path of diversifying into industries outside the healthcare arena.

The debentures, belonging to 5G Wireless Communications, Inc., Connected Media Technologies, Inc., Ei3 Corporation, EYI Industries, Inc. and ICOA, Inc., were assigned to Pacer as a result of the transaction.

5G Wireless Communications, Inc. develops and manufactures indoor and outdoor base stations for broadband wireless networks based on the 802.11 or Wi-Fi standard.


ICOA, Inc. installs and operates wireless broadband (Wi-Fi) hotspots in high-traffic public areas across the United States. The company has more than 900 network installations in 44 states.

“This assignment demonstrates our continued commitment to diversify our company and ability to continue to expand our holdings,” said Mr. Gonzalez.

About Pacer Health Corporation
Pacer Health Corporation is a company that focuses on financially distressed businesses in all market segments. Pacer owns acute care hospitals and medical treatment facilities; a distribution and logistics company with locations throughout the United States; and, credit facilities for several companies across multiple industry lines.

Please visit http://www.pacerco.com for more information.

FCC said this last month people, not me:
White spaces, for example, could supplant weaker Wi-Fi technology to build superior wireless networks on college campuses, in hospitals and in other large complexes.
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/sep/23/business/la-fi-fcc-wifi-20100923
Changing Market
With market evolution comes competitive pressures, which may have played a role in Boingo's latest offering, according to George Strouthopoulos, chairman and CEO of Icoa, a WiFi provider with some of its networks plugged into Boingo.

As a subscription-based service, Boingo has two goals: keep existing customers happy to minimize churn and acquire new customers, he said.

Faced with competition, what does a service like Boingo do to meet those goals? "Come out with a flat rate and give them all they can eat," Strouthopoulos told TechNewsWorld.

"This is a positive step," he added. "It's a good ploy. It puts them in the front line."

More Lettuce for Partners
The new flat rate could drive more people to use Boingo, since every time a Boingo subscriber uses an Icoa network to access the Internet, Icoa gets a piece of the action. "The more customers that Boingo has, the better it is for us," he said.

Boingo has roaming deals in place with AT&T/Cingular, Sprint Nextel, and T-Mobile for at least airport service, and, in some cases, beyond that. Boingo already had a roaming relationship in place with Concourse, so this doesn't expand their access.

Of the top 10 U.S. airports by passenger traffic in 2005, Boingo's acquisition of Concourse gives them facilites ranked No. 2 (Chicago O'Hare), No. 9 (Minneapolis-St. Paul), and No. 10 (Detroit). Boingo has roaming agreements directly or through its acquisition with the other seven or none is needed. 1. Atlanta: Local operator; roaming in place. 4. LAX: T-Mobile is building out, ICOA operates food courts; roaming in place with both. 5. Las Vegas: Free. 6. Denver: AT&T/Cingular; roaming in place. 7. Phoenix: Free. 8. Houston (Bush): Sprint Nextel operates; roaming in place.

The top tier airports are mostly served with Wi-Fi or have plans underway, Hagan said, but the second and third tiers are still being built out. With the financial results released a few weeks ago from ICOA, a hotspot operator specializing in second- and third-tier airports, Boingo might already have a second acquisition target on its radar.

ICOA needs more investment to continue operations, but it has a very sweet North American footprint already in place. Hagan wouldn't comment on future plans or ICOA's financial status, but he did say the company was neither trying to roll up a large footprint nor was it adverse to future airport location acquisitions. He said there were some "interesting" companies in the space. With 15,000 airports in the U.S., and only several hundred with Wi-Fi, there's a lot of room to grow before reaching those terminals with single gates in North Dakota.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/58028.html?wlc=1290366703
Posted by Glenn Fleishman at Categories: Air Travel .http://wifinetnews.com/archives/2006/05

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http://www.authdirect.com/www/products.html
AuthDirect, Inc. is a leading provider of BackOffice OSS services tailored for the Wireless HotSpot market. Our core product, TollBooth, bundles these services into an easy-to-use self-administered administration portal that allows our customers to have 100% total control over their HotSpot locations including customized branding, billing, credit card processing, flexible retail plans, location monitoring and notification, and usage reporting. AuthDirect offers TollBooth as a service to our customers that services HotSpot locations around the world. TollBooth™ has been designed to eliminate the three main stumbling blocks to HotSpot proliferation - hardware costs, infrastructure costs and closed proprietary solutions. Our services allow customers to focus on their product delivery and administration, rather than the BackOffice systems and software that defines their product. AuthDirect is built on a foundation of service and support and stands behind our product as is demonstrated by the relationship that we build with each of our customers.
Same address as ICOA : Company Address:
AuthDirect, Inc.
111 Airport Road
Warwick, RI 02889

Just trying to put the dots together to see if ????, IF???? ICOA has any possible future going into 2011.

ICOA is a total gamble, no matter how you might look at it. But the potential could be worth the Gamble . IMO only !!!!