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Innovative Communications Technologies, Inc., (OTC: ICTN) now provides its Global Private Telecommunications Network (GPTN) product to 5 of the 7 major TV network affiliates in Seattle with the inclusion of Tribune Broadcasting television stations KCPQ-TV (Q13 FOX) and KTWB-TV (Seattle's WB), to its existing list of media clients in the Pacific Northwest. Innovative is purposely working to expand their client base to include other media clients in Western/Eastern Washington and Oregon and continue to provide the most stable and cost effective means of voice communication to business customers across the nation.
"We are honored by this opportunity to provide Q13 FOX and Seattle's WB with both inbound and outbound private network products," says Joel Edwards, Director of Network Sales, Innovative Communications. "We enjoy the challenge that comes with working with unique telecommunications needs like Tribune Broadcasting... it's what we do best."
Terri Fenn, Director of Information Services, Tribune Broadcasting in Seattle, says, "Not only did Innovative deliver on their promise to reduce our telecommunications expenses, the process provided our company with an unexpected window of opportunity to reorganize and streamline our telecommunications system. Innovative was very helpful with offering solutions that would benefit our unique needs and ultimately lead to greater efficiency and additional costs savings."
About Tribune Broadcasting
TRIBUNE (NYSE: TRB) is one of the country's top media companies, operating businesses in broadcasting and publishing. It reaches more than 80 percent of U.S. households and is the only media organization with television stations, newspapers and websites in the nation's top three markets. In publishing, Tribune operates 11 leading daily newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and Newsday, plus a wide range of targeted publications such as Spanish-language Hoy. The company's broadcasting group operates 26 television stations including KCPQ13/Fox and KTWB22/Warner Brothers, Superstation WGN on national cable, Chicago's WGN-AM and the Chicago Cubs baseball team. Popular news and information websites complement Tribune's print and broadcast properties and extend the company's nationwide audience.
About Innovative Communications
Since 1989, Innovative has been a pioneer in the development and positioning of private telecommunications networks for businesses. Innovative's proprietary technology and alliances with industry leaders now place the company at the forefront of the telecommunications industry. The GPTN and Private800 technology combines proprietary leading-edge packet switching technology and dedicated fiber optic networks with Innovative's Voice Over Packetization Technology (VOPT). VOPT uses packet switching instead of traditional circuit switching when routing calls. Customers use their existing equipment and pay only a fixed monthly rate eliminating per-minute billing and the long-distance carrier. For more information visit the company's website at www.ict.net
Safe harbor statement under the private Securities Litigation reform Act of 1995
This news release contains forward-looking statements, including statements regarding Innovative's expectations about successfully expanding its GPTN business and securing significant additional customers for its products or services. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from future results expressed or implied in such statements. These risks and uncertainties include the inability to manage expected growth, the loss of a large customer, the failure to realize the increased revenues and improved operating margins that the Company has associated with sales of GPTN, the loss of any key personnel, tightening regulation of the communications technologies and channels used in our systems, our inability to introduce new services that are accepted by the market, the loss or non-performance of our sales representatives, unfavorable results of existing and potential litigation, and the possibility that competitors could develop or acquire technology that could erode Innovative's technical advantages. The Company disclaims any obligation to update any such factors or to announce publicly the results of any revisions to any of the forward-looking statements contained in this news release.
Contact: Barry Henthorn, CEO Innovative Communications Technologies, Inc. (206) 812-3500 www.ict.net
SOURCE: Innovative Communications Technologies, Inc
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