AirTap Communications Announces Expansion Milestones

GEISMAR, La., Sept. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- AirTap Communications, LLC, a leading provider of the latest WiMAX technologies delivering high speed wireless connections to remote locations, announced that it has completed a significant expansion of its wireless broadband coverage in the Gulf of Mexico and related coastal areas.

AirTap's innovative multi-point WiMAX coverage has been expanded with new broadband assets operating from additional locations offshore as well as additional towers along the coast. The expansion projects are part of a planned, multi-phase implementation schedule which when completed will cover all of the GoM shelf primary energy sectors.

David Heximer, AirTap President, said, "We are pleased to announce our expanded coverage areas and network capabilities. AirTap now has complete coverage of the central gulf coastline, encompassing almost 400 miles from Texas to Mississippi. Our high-speed, low-latency broadband coverage range is now in excess of 20,000 square miles of the GoM and its coastal areas."

AirTap operates the Gulf of Mexico's largest high speed, multi-point broadband network. Its pure digital, low latency technologies provide fast internet, high quality video, secure data and clear VoIP voice communications which until now have not been available in the GoM from a single network with wide area coverage. Using the latest cutting edge WiMAX technologies and fiber-backed, carrier-grade backhaul, AirTap enables enterprise class broadband solutions to remote locations.

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SOURCE AirTap Communications, LLC