GAW. Great Auk Wireless, Broadband Wireless Internet Provider for Vermont, and New Hampshire.

Deal Extends Great Auk’s Wireless Footprint in Southern Vermont
Brattleboro, VT - High-speed wireless broadband Internet access is here. And its footprint is expanding with the recent acquisition of LastMileNet, LLC by Brattleboro’s Great Auk Wireless. With this acquisition, Brattleboro’s Great Auk Wireless adds more than 100 subscribers to the more than 200 currently being served in the Lake Dunmore area by the wireless Internet service provider (WISP). By purchasing LastMileNet, Great Auk Wireless now provides wireless broadband Internet service to an area that covers more than a 20-mile radius surrounding Stratton and Equinox Mountains. This is in addition to the newly deployed service covering the Putney Road business district in Brattleboro.

LastMileNet, southern Vermont’s first WISP was formed in 2003 by owners Tim Flesher of Westminster and Vermont’s largest owned and operated ISP, SoVerNet, with the cooperation of other minority partners. With signals sent from the summits of Equinox and Stratton Mountains, the LastMileNet service delivers high-speed wireless Internet that covers a 20-mile radius of those rural areas of Southern Vermont where traditional high-speed service is currently not available. LastMileNet will become a subsidiary of the Great Auk Wireless with SoVerNet continuing as the provider’s only minority partner.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but according to Josh Garza, Chief Executive Officer at Great Auk Wireless, “this deal marks the beginning of the next generation of communications and commerce in Vermont. With more Vermonters having high speed access to the Internet, our greatest resource, the people of Vermont, will have the ability to conduct business at speeds never realized before while maintaining the integrity of Vermont’s natural assets.”

“By acquiring LastMileNet, Great Auk Wireless will be able to increase the range of our secure and reliable wireless product to serve more Vermonters in desperate need of high-speed access. Bringing wireless broadband to Vermonters is not just about providing a service like cable TV. Broadband opens up a variety of economic and social opportunities for our customers and that’s what we’d like to expand,” said Gregg Noble, Great Auk Wireless’ Chief Operating Officer.

Tim Flesher, the former Managing Partner at LastMileNet has accepted a position with Great Auk Wireless to manage the larger company’s field service group as he turns over daily operations to the management team at Great Auk Wireless.

For more information about Great Auk Wireless and private or municipal deployment of high-speed broadband Internet access, visit the Great Auk Wireless website at www.gaw.com, call 1.877.220.2873 or email Great Auk Wireless at info@gaw.com.

About Great Auk Wireless
Great Auk Wireless, the sister company of Optima Computers in Brattleboro was formed in 2005 by Josh Garza and his company, Optima Computers. Great Auk Wireless (www.gaw.com) currently operates a successful wireless Internet service on Lake Dunmore, just north of Rutland. Great Auk Wireless currently serves nearly 400 subscribers with broadband wireless Internet access on a network that defies rough terrain and topography, areas not served by standard cable or telephony based broadband services. The minimal environmental impact, lower cost and speed of deployment versus cable or DSL make Great Auk Wireless a natural for rural areas in desperate need of broadband wireless service. For more information on municipal access to the Great Auk Wireless network visit the Great Auk Wireless site at www.gaw.com, call 1.877.220.2873 or email info@gaw.com.

September 14, 2006
Contact: John C. Caceres
Optima Computers
Telephone: 802.251.0700 x132
Email: jcaceres@optimapc.com