Trustive partners with free-hotspot.com to extend its reach in Europe

4 June 2007

Trustive customers can now access more than 1,000 new locations in 16 European countries

Dublin, Ireland & Amsterdam, The Netherlands – 4 June 2007: Trustive, Europe's leading wireless hotspot access provider, and free-hotspot.com announce today that Trustive customers will now be able to seamlessly roam at all free-hotspot.com's locations.

The partnership means that Trustive customers will have an assured quality of service and will not be required to view advertisements to gain access to free-hotspot.com's network of more than 1,000 locations in 16 countries throughout Europe. Customers can simply access the network using Trustive's HotSpotter software, which enables secure one-click access to the network.

"Trustive retail customers now have access to over 23,000 hotspots including prime locations and coverage at all major EU airports," said Gavin Dresselhuis, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Trustive, who added, "We are pleased to extend our reach by partnering with a dynamic company like free-hotspot.com. Its rapidly growing network will provide our users with more choices and venue options as they move about Europe."

"Partnering with Trustive opens our network to a large, high quality user base. The company's relationships with leading operators such as Vodafone Italia and Vodafone Netherlands will bring our HotSpot partners more customers and increase the benefit they derive from providing a hotspot service at their cafés, hotels and restaurants," said Dan Toomey, free-hotspot.com's Chief Executive Officer. "We are pleased to be partnering with a market leader such as Trustive."

About free-hotspot.com:
free-hotspot.com operates the world's largest free wireless network with over 1000 FREE HotSpot locations in 16 countries throughout Europe. The company's HotSpots are located in hotels, cafés, restaurants, pubs, petrol stations and other public venues.

To gain access to the free-hotspot.com's free wireless Internet service, users agree to watch an advertisement. For this innovation, free-hotspot.com received the prestigious WBI (Wireless Broadband Innovation) Award for Best Public Wi-Fi Product 2006. The profitability of the company's programme for HotSpot operators was also recognised when free-hotspot.com was named "Best Business Idea" for the hospitality industry at the 2006 FIZZZ Awards in Germany.

free-hotspot.com supports an active user community and provides free wireless Internet service to more than 100,000 people each month. The company operates the industry's most comprehensive directory of free HotSpots which currently lists more than 16,000 free wireless internet locations worldwide.

To learn more about the free HotSpot programme or to find the free HotSpot nearest you, please visit: www.free-hotspot.com.

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