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4,000,000 WiFi connections

Friday, May 20th, 2011

 

Less Networks connects four-millionth WiFi session

4 Million and Counting

 

Austin, TX – WiFi-enabled marketing solutions and service provider Less Networks counted its four-millionth WiFi connection this week.  “I saw the counter at 3,999,000 and some change a few days ago and knew four million was coming up, but by the next time I looked again, it had already tipped over,” says CEO Rich MacKinnon.  “To me, four million means reliability and dependability.  People take reliability for granted, but we know that giving people that impression takes a good team standing behind good work.  We’re very proud of what we’ve built here.  Anybody can create a prototype technology and startup service, but operating a quality service with the test of time is an accomplishment.  Our users create accounts and login from all around the world 24 hours a day using PC notebooks, Macs, notepads, and smartphones and they just expect the service to work.  And so do we. ”

Less Networks takes reliability seriously.  MacKinnon continues: We built our service on what we call the “Yahoo model.”  We wanted to create a free WiFi network that was more sophisticated than Starbucks and just as easy to use as Yahoo.  In other words, we wanted our user interface to be intuitive or self-explanatory enough that most people would be able to figure it out without assistance.  But unlike most Internet companies like Yahoo or Facebook, we provide an 800 toll-free number and support email address on our website for people to let us know when they need help.  We rarely get these kinds of communications, but when we do, we take note and revisit our experience to see if there’s anything we can do to improve it and reduce those types of calls in the future.  We love hearing from our customers, but when someone calls for help using our system, it means that we didn’t build it as good as we could have. 

On the other hand, like every company, we’ve gotten our share of humorous support calls that no amount of design and solid architecture can prevent.  Our favorite calls come from people sitting in their own homes, miles away from one of our hotspots, complaining about poor reception.  Our least favorite calls come from our competitors pretending to be prospective customers.  Yeah, we’re wise to y’all, but we’re polite just in case :-)

MacKinnon says the 4,000,000th connection is very different from the 1st one logged in 2003.  Back then free WiFi was a novelty and Starbucks was still charging for it.  Facebook didn’t exist for most folks and MySpace was just getting started.  We had a concept of a WiFi community, really a very early social network, where you could upload a photo of yourself and meet others logged into the same coffee shop or at another hotspot on the network.  It was a benefit of having a WiFi account.  At Starbucks you needed an account to hold your credit card info.  At Less Networks, you needed your account to socialize with others on the network.  “I guess we were ahead of our time,” says MacKinnon.  “We don’t really get much credit for being the world’s first WiFi social network.  That’s okay.  We know it.” 

Today, instead of primarily displaying a business’ website to WiFi users, the emphasis is on connecting consumers with a business’ social media.  “I’d say it’s the biggest change and it’s a perfect fit for us.  If one of your customers is going to use your WiFi to connect to the Internet, there’s no better time to introduce them to your Facebook fan page, Twitter page, email newsletter, and other web-based marketing.  It’s so much more effective than a paper sign in your store that says ‘Follow us on Facebook.’  Why not simply take them to the page?  And yes, we still help WiFi users meet one another on the network.”

What’s in store for the next million connects?  “In a word?  ChimpIt,” says MacKinnon.  “It’s our secret weapon.  Our competitors have nothing like it and it’s going to blow the top off WiFi-integrated marketing.  We’re already getting a terrific response from digital marketing directors as they begin to wrap their heads around what ChimpIt can do for their brand engagement, customer relationships, and market intelligence.”

Anything else?  “We’re about to log our half-million registered user,” says MacKinnon.  “It took us a while to get here, but that’s a lot of people nonetheless.  In addition to ChimpIt, we’ve got another exciting technology up our sleeves that will help us enter new markets and get us up to a million users real quick.”

Sounds like Less Networks is continuing to innovate allowing them to provide even more ways for businesses to get value from providing free WiFi to their customers.

May 2011 ChimpIt Leaderboard

Monday, May 2nd, 2011

Welcome to the May 2011 ChimpIt Leaderboard!

Action Highlights: mnaylor promoted to Supreme Solid Chimper in Waiting.  Nice!  Dustie64 gains on h.skrille. andrewkorab2000 appears out of nowhere. palonghorn87 and mnaylor leap to center of pack. owlspectre, lisajean, and coltice17 in 3-way tie for Top 10 elimination.

As an active Chimper, you have soared through the ranks of commoners and have landed a coveted spot on our whimsical leaderboard. Through a mysterious calculation, your Chimping has been scored and we have bestowed you with meaningless Rank, Level, and Title.  Some of you have even managed to attain a Level and Title above your Rank.  Well done, you clever Chimpers!  Keep on Pimpin’ da Chimpiin’ and don’t worry yourself over the “points”– they are for entertainment purposes only.  Thanks for being a good sport and a good customer.

We hope you continue to enjoy Smart WiFi and ChimpIt!

Rank

Username

Leaderboard

Level/Title

1

normo 155 L0 – Chimper

2

chefmuhs 90 L0 – Chimper

3

unless_spring 85 L0 – Chimper

4

h.skrille 75 L0 – Chimper

5

Dustie64 71 L5 – Supreme Solid Chimper in Waiting

6

andrewkorab2000 65 L0 – Chimper

7

palonghorn 55 L3 – Power Chimper

8

mnaylor 51 L5 – Supreme Solid Chimper in Waiting

9

owlspectre 50 L0 – Chimper

10

lisajean 50 L0 – Chimper

10

coltrice17 50 L0 – Chimper

–Less Networks ChimpIt Team

www.chimpit.com



Social Mobile: Do games work?

Sunday, April 10th, 2011

 

We’ve watched with interest as Loopt, FourSquare, and Gowalla experiment with games to incent interaction.  But one wonders whether the game is needed because the content is lacking?  In other words, what else do you get out of “checking-in” besides checking in?  It’s no wonder that we’re starting to see discounts, coupons, and recognition bolster the game model.  Along these lines, we’ve become interested in customer loyalty programs and their success at achieving their intended goals–customer recognition, increased customer interaction, and increased customer loyalty.

We thought this article on poorly conceived customer loyalty programs was terrific!  We agree, that there is a real risk that a loyalty program will engender loyalty to the program, not necessarily the company or the brand.  After much thought, we’ve developed a hybrid model with elements of gaming and customer recognition.  In essence, we have two programs, one where some of our most active users can publicly and informally compete for bragging rights, and another where we publicly recognize our outstanding users for their roles in helping us achieve our corporate goals.

We decided to use social media and published thank you’s on users’ Facebook walls to publicly recognize them for their loyalty and support.  We also included a gift certificate from Amazon.

Customer Recognition to Increase Brand Loyalty

Customer Recognition to Increase Brand Loyalty

Shortly after these were posted on customer’s walls, there was a bump in site traffic and downloads indicating that our customers’ friends appreciated our customer appreciation.

 

 

 

Simultaneously, we published a leaderboard  because we noticed that it encouraged competition among users who care about and enjoy a little competition.  Below is the first leaderboard.  No prizes are awarded, just bragging rights.  We’ll be watching over the next few months to see how the different programs work independently and together in helping us help our users enjoy the product and recommend it to their friends.

Welcome to the April 2011 ChimpIt Leaderboard!

As an active Chimper, you have soared through the ranks of commoners and have landed a coveted spot on our whimsical leaderboard. Through a mysterious calculation, your Chimping has been scored and we have bestowed you with meaningless Rank, Level, and Title.  Some of you have even managed to attain a Level and Title above your Rank.  Well done, you clever Chimpers!  Keep on Pimpin’ da Chimpiin’ and don’t worry yourself over the “points”– they are for entertainment purposes only.  Thanks for being a good sport and a good customer.

We hope you continue to enjoy Smart WiFi and ChimpIt!

Rank

Username

Leaderboard

Level/Rank

1

normo 155 L0 – Chimper

2

chefmuhs 90 L0 – Chimper

3

unless_spring 85 L0 – Chimper

4

h.skrille 75 L0 – Chimper

5

Dustie64 62 L5 – Supreme Solid Chimper in Waiting

6

owlspectre 50 L0 – Chimper

6

lisajean 50 L0 – Chimper

6

coltrice17 50 L0 – Chimper

9

palonghorn 48 L3 – Power Chimper

10

mnaylor 47 L4 – Mega Chimper

– Less Networks ChimpIt Team
www.chimpit.com

Social-Loco Startup Competition

Sunday, April 10th, 2011

 

Social-Loco Startup Competition

Social-Loco Startup Competition

 

Enter the Social-Loco Startup Competition for a chance to pitch your company to 100s of

social-location obsessed VCs, angel investors, executives and media at the 2011 Social-Loco conference in San Francisco. ENTER NOW!

Vote for ChimpIt as your favorite Social-Loco startup.  Click here to view our profile and cast your vote.

Social-Loco: the convergence of the social web, mobile and local-business

Sunday, April 10th, 2011
Social-Loco Conference

Social-Loco Conference

 

Social-Loco: the convergence of the social web, mobile and local-business

Social-Loco will dive into social and mobile web convergence, and what that means for SMB, big brands and consumers. Learn from real-world successes in daily deals, location based services and advertising, mobile marketing platforms and more. Executives from Groupon, Facebook, Google, ATTi, Microsoft and leading investors will address these topics in a highly interactive setting.

Social-Loco takes place on May 5, 2011 at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco.  ChimpIt will be demo’ing there and giving away our cool schwag.  Come on out to participate and meet us.  We’d love to meet you!

Read more and register

ChimpIt Walk-Through / SXSW 2011 Launch

Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
ChimpIt. You are here.  Here's what's near.

ChimpIt. You are here. Here's what's near.

Ever since Gowalla launched at SXSW 2009, notebook users worldwide have felt neglected.  While the check-in wars have waged on between Gowalla, FourSquare, and Loopt (who?), notebook users have sat on the sidelines wondering why smartphones get all the cool apps.

  
The wait is over.
  
For two years, the slowpokes at Less Networks have labored to bring the world a better WiFi experience and they call it “ChimpIt.”  ChimpIt is a small downloadable notebook check-in app with a few interesting characteristics.
First of all, you don’t need to check in.  ChimpIt is a convenient “no check-in required” app because it can automatically detect your location down to the business and street address–often without having to select from a list.  For those of you lucky enough to have stalkers, don’t worry.  ChimpIt doesn’t automatically share your location, but you can if you want.  And since you’re on a notebook, the “experience sharing” capability makes it very easy to type out a rant to your Facebook friends about why the coffee sucks or the mud pie is faboo.
  
At first glance, ChimpIt looks like a simple mash-up of the usual players, Google, Yelp, Facebook, WeatherUnderground, Fandango, etc, but on closer inspection you realize that the ChimpIt team has cleverly assembled and fine-tuned these trusted brands in a way that is surprisingly convenient.  There’s a video demo on the website, but here’s an example.  If you are a traveler and you just arrived at your hotel in a strange city, ChimpIt will somehow figure out which hotel you’re at and then build a neighborhood portal to help orient you to your new surroundings.  It provides the weather, local deals nearby (more on this later), local radio stations and movie listings, a Google map on steroids, and a curious list of strange faces.
There’s seems to be more here than meets the eye.  Let’s begin with the local deals nearby, apparently sourced by fellow Austin startup WantandFound.  WAF allows anyone to type in their favorite drink special, culinary discovery, or shopping bargain, and then syndicates it.  ChimpIt organizes WAF deals by distance from your location.  Since anyone can submit a deal, there’s no quality-control, but on the other hand, the user community can publish and share deals way more effectively than the businesses themselves.  It seems to work out and provides tourists and travelers access to some local knowlege that might not be readily available.
  
Just a big mash up, or more?

Just a big mash up, or more?

The Google map at first is a yawn.  I mean, what’s so special about putting your location on a Google map?  Well, let’s give ChimpIt some credit for figuring out your location first.  Even though you just checked into a hotel, doesn’t mean you actually know your exact street address.  That comes in handy when it comes to navigating to your next destination and ChimpIt has got that down in spades.  Simply search for something like “taco” or “ATM” or “gas” and it becomes clear that the ChimpIt dev team has optimized your Google search to your exact location.  Instead of taco recipes or the history of the petroleum industry, you see exactly where the nearest locations are and if you click you get a bunch of reviews from all the usual sources.  If you click some more, you’ll get specific driving, walking, or transit directions.  The Google map on ChimpIt is a real sleeper, but possibly the most useful of all of ChimpIt’s capabilities.  You may find yourself shifiting more of your searches to ChimpIt even when you’re at home.

Okay, let’s take a closer look at those strange faces trailing down the right side of the screen.  Those are supposed to be “strangers nearby” but when you click on them, they seem to be from random places.  The ChimpIt team says that as more people use ChimpIt the list will become more accurate, but in the meantime, they are casting as wide a net as is necessary to fill the list.  But that begs the question–why would I want to meet strangers?  Well, if I’m at a conference or an airport lounge, that could come in handy.  After all, aren’t we the socially mobile jetset because nearly every opportunity is a networking opportunity, the never-ending mobile mixer?  Interestingly (and not surprisingly), it’s apparent that some of these strangers have already begun the process of mixing because you can see their public shout outs.  You don’t need to be a nun to know that there’s some adult friend finding going on.  This aspect gives the act of “chimping” a whole new meaning…
  
So let’s wrap up this walk-through up. ChimpIt is a notebook app, not a smartphone app, although it’s clear that it seems to bring together some of the best features of the smartphone apps and bulks them up with meatier content. You can get just about everything ChimpIt does without ChimpIt, but it’s awfully damn convenient to have the little monkey pull everything together for you automagically.  The local deals are way cool provided they’re accurate.  The optimized Google map is exactly what it should be.  The strange faces make me feel funny on the inside (I’m married) because it feels naughty even though I can tell myself I’m simply networking for business.
 
The ChimpIt folks call their new toy the best “here you are” app for notebooks.  It might well be the best update to “here you are” technology since someone stuck an arrow on a map for the very first time.  Take ChimpIt with you when you travel.  You’ll know what I mean.

ChimpIt launches at SXSW 2011

Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
ChimpIt. You are here.  Here's what's near.

ChimpIt. You are here. Here's what's near.

ChimpIt, the social location-based app  (aka “Here you are” app) for notebooks launches at this year’s SXSW in Austin, TX.  Users of ChimpIt will enjoy the benefit  ”no check-in required” as they use WiFi hotspots–ChimpIt will automatically detect their location and check-in for them.  They can optionally share their location or their experience at a location with their Facebook friends.  The benefits of checking-in or “Chimping” include:

  • Accurate nearby search results (find the nearest tacos, atm, or beer)
  • See local deals nearby (cheap eats and drinks that only locals know about)
  • Handy nearby Yelp reviews
  • Weather, news, gossip, movie listings
  • Discover and meet people nearby

Download ChimpIt and add smarts to notebook WiFi experience!

Watch the demo video here here:

http://www.chimpit.com

Less Networks CEO receives 2009 Wireless Industry Leadership Award and runs away

Friday, November 6th, 2009

Texas Wireless Summit 2009

Texas Wireless Summit 2009

[This is an acceptance "speech" that I did NOT make when I accepted the "2009 Wireless Industry Leadership Award" last night at the Texas Wireless Summit held in Austin.  They could have just hit me on the head with it and I couldn't have been much more stunned.  I regret to say that I sent this acceptance note via email the morning after. Worse yet, I forgot to include my co-founder and CTO Arun Chatterjee.  I'm sorry, Arun.  Thanks for taking my initial call just before you went down the ski slopes, thanks for signing up to take the ride, thanks for watching me make mistakes as a first-tine CEO, and thanks for building the vision and putting into reality the engineering behind the words.


And now, if you have the stamina, read on... --rcm]

Now that I’ve had a chance to sleep on it and reflect on the day, I realize that by sheepishly accepting an award without saying anything other than “thank you” was a missed opportunity to recognize and thank the friends and supporters that share the honor with me.  I’m sorry for robbing you all of the well-deserved limelight, but I hope you can appreciate that I really was caught off guard when I was singled-out to accept the “2009 Wireless Industry Leadership Award” on your behalf.  While receiving a cheap email note pales in comparison to being recognized in front of a room full of your friends, I want to make the effort to “publicly” and personally thank you all on an open cc list so that you too can take this opportunity to think about how we managed to convince the world, for a while, that Austin was at the center of the wireless universe.

I’m reminded of the recent discovery that Austin is NOT the live music capital of the world.  We’re not even #2.  We’re number #3, according to one authoritative source.  But when the news media tried to stir up controversy by checking in with local club owners, they were surprised to find that the majority of local music movers and shakers were pretty satisfied with being #3, behind New Orleans and New York, but ahead of Nashville, Chicago, Vegas, and all the rest.  And to be honest, I think many in the music industry were surprised that Austin even ranked that high.  The hubris of claiming to be the best at something comes with a price, yet passing up an opportunity to strive for something worthwhile is a shortcoming.  I’ve always thought of our unofficial music motto as more of a vision statement than a statement of fact and I’m proud of our community for striving towards that goal and even more proud that others are beginning to share our vision for how we see ourselves someday.

The Austin Wireless City Project began as a vision for where I saw we could be and in many ways we’ve gotten there.  But in many other ways, we have fallen short.  I guess that’s the hallmark of a good vision–you don’t want it to be fully realizable–complete accomplishment needs to be just beyond the reach.  The media and public love rankings.  It’s a great way to have a horse race with winners and losers all neatly ordered from top to bottom.  In almost every industry, the participants being ranked are rankled by the inherent and often insidious problems with the methodology and bias that eventually sorts everyone out.  It wasn’t long before the WiFi world had its first ranking.  The research was funded by Intel.  The opportunity I saw, was to measure something that I perceived was considered irrelevant by the bean counters–the degree of free-ness.  I didn’t want to see a world of “pervasive,” for-pay mobile access.  I knew that the phone companies would do their part to bring that into reality without my help.  I was convinced that WiFi didn’t need to go that way as well.  So, in a fit of hubris, I did my own research and ranking and declared Austin as the “free-est” wireless city in the world.  I confess that I coined the awkward word “free-est” so that it would be easy to track the meme through Google.  I sent out a press release and at that moment, we actually became the free-est wireless city in the world.

The Austin Wireless City Project has the mission to improve the quality and availability of public free WiFi in Austin, but a mission without do-ers is just a vision statement.  In the beginning, we had and needed lots of volunteers to build hotspot servers, talk to community businesses, install and maintain equipment, and support the hordes of early-adopter end-users.  We were fortunate as an organization to have been born out of a high-quality gene pool consisting of the DNA from EFF-Austin (Jon Lebkowsky, Ed Cavazos, Gene Crick), Austin Free-Net (Ana Sisnet, Sue Beckwith, Charlie Scott), the City of Austin (Pete Collins), the Austin start-up community (Chris Boyd, Eric Stumberg, Erin Defosse, Bart Bohn), the Austin wireless industry (Liz Maxfield, Dave Roon, Jim Keeler), and UT (Sandy Stone, Gary Chapman, Leslie Jarmon).  Our heart was in the right place and our profit motive was couched in community service and economic development.  At times, it felt more like activism than a service organization and increasingly, I became involved with an amazing group of international colleagues fighting for digital access, inclusion, and literacy.  My relationship to this fight and with its participants on both sides, will likely prove to be one of the greatest challenges of my career.

You see, while having a vision of free access is as cheap as the words to say it, it’s actually quite costly to accomplish.  The technology required to support Austin Wireless in its mission had to be created.  A new start up was born, Less Networks, of which I’m the founder and CEO.  At first, we were more of a garage band working for tips, than we were a company.  We’ve been accused, god forbid, of being socialists. We’ve been accused of ruining the fledgling for-pay WiFi industry in Austin.  And we’ve been accused of complicating free WiFi by requiring everyone to create an account and log-in.  In our first year of business, we earned nothing, we spent our own money and we put in a lot time.  In 2004, our second year, we spent more money and earned a whopping $134.87.  Anyone who said that we were a garage band working for tips was clearly over-estimating our ability to earn money!  Even socialists are better funded.  The real cost was borne personally by each team member who gave up the opportunity and compensation to work someplace else. To work at Less Networks, you more or less have to drink the Kool-Ade and you have to pay for it out of your own pocket because we can’t afford to give it to you.  Larry Ketcham and Lennie Myers worked for at least a couple years each, without in dime in payment or even an agreement or promise of compensation for their efforts.  As a first-time CEO, I recognized that that kind of loyalty and dedication cannot be bought in a dot-commish industry characterized by stock options, quick cash-outs, and seemingly lavish spending.  I’m proud to say they have both been offered and accepted partnerships in our impoverished WiFi enterprise.  There is something else that I”m proud of.  Even though, we couldn’t afford to pay our partners, from the beginning, we figured out a way to provide health insurance.  And it is my understanding, that Humana took our case to the very top before they made the first exception in their corporate history to allow a company without a payroll to extend healthcare benefits to its sweat equity employees.  I didn’t realize at the time exactly what I was asking Humana to consider.  I knew it was important to my team, but apparently, it’s become quite a hot topic for lots of folks.

In a community of leaders like Austin, it feels a bit strange to be presented with a leadership award when we all know that we’re more or less sitting on a Lazy Susan of Leadership.  Quite frankly, the decision to lead, more often than not, seems like a bunch of leaders sitting in a room saying, “Uh, not me.  I did it last time.  What about you?”  So at least in Austin, the obligation and privilege to lead is a shared responsibility among equally capable leaders.  I’m grateful for being given the opportunity to step up and to enjoy the support and friendship of so many leaders equally deserving of this award.  So anyway, I should have had the presence of mind to say at least some of this stuff last night when others could have heard your names and heard how you all played an important role in the story.  On behalf of all of you on this list, one day too late, I accept the award with your thanks.  I know this was a long note, but as my friend Douglas Plummer said, “A thank you can never be too long.”

–r

9 More Ways Restaurants Can Use Social Media

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

Facebook and Twitter

Facebook and Twitter

[Smart WiFi from Less Networks can take the hassle out of figuring out social media by automatically integrating it into your WiFi system!]

For foodservice operators who still aren’t sure how to work social-networking sites to their advantage, R&I shares a host of helpful ideas straight from the trenches.

Allison Perlik, Senior Editor — Restaurants and Institutions, 10/26/2009

Americans have nearly tripled the amount of time they spend at social-networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, according recent research from The Nielsen Company. In August 2009, 17% of all time spent online was spent at social-networking sites, up from 6% in August 2008. Yet even as social media’s profile continues to rise, plenty of foodservice operators still aren’t quite sure how this trend can work to their advantage. R&I offers these nine industry-specific ideas…

Read more…

via R&I Restaurants & Institutions Magazine

Texas Wireless Summit — Austin November 5, 2009

Thursday, October 15th, 2009
Texas Wireless Summit

Texas Wireless Summit

[If you decide to attend this event, please send me a note and we'll be sure to put you on the VIP list for an invitation-only reception -- rich at lessnetworks dot com]

The Austin Wireless Alliance and UT’s Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG) invite you to attend the seventh annual Texas Wireless Summit (www.twsummit.com) on November 5th at the AT&T Conference Center in Austin, TX.  The Summit is the premiere wireless event in the central US and routinely attracts C-level participants and speakers from many of the industries leading companies.  This year’s theme is “Data Everywhere: Wireless throughout industry, government and society.”  There is a relentless expansion of wireless data networks which is allowing new industries to adopt wireless technologies.  These industries will deploy new data-driven solutions in smart grid, healthcare, telematics, consumer electronics, and software applications, resulting in unforeseen innovations.  There will be deep dives into understanding which wireless technologies are appropriate for which applications, security, and infrastructure and application deployment and management.

SPEAKERS

*********We are announcing the addition of John Stupka, President STS; Chief of Staff for the President and CEO of AT&T Mobility as the Infrastructure Keynote*********

The keynote speakers include

  • Security                        Thomas Cellucci, Chief Commercialization Officer, Department of Homeland Security
  • Infrastructure                 John Stupka, President STS; Chief of Staff for President and CEO of AT&T Mobility, Ralph de la Vega
  • Data Economics            Frank Bernhard, Managing Principal, Telecommunications Practice, Omni Group

Panel speakers from AT&T, Motion Computing, Austin Energy, Austin Heart Hospital, Dell, Motive, Movera, VMWare and many other leading industry players will provide a deeper dive into the implications for security, infrastructure and application deployment and management, and which wireless technologies are best for which applications.

REGISTRATION

Early bird registration will end October 31st.  To register, go to http://www.twsummit.com/index.php/registration.

SPONSORS

AT&T, Qualcomm, The Austin Chamber of Commerce, The City of Austin, UK Trade & Investment, ATI Wireless, C Faulkner Engineering, Tengo Networks

MEDIA PARTNERS

Portner Novelli, RCR Wireless, MobileMonday, Wi-Fi Alliance, CommNexus, WCA

For sponsorship opportunities, please contact Bart Bohn, Texas Wireless Summit Chair at bbohn@ati.utexas.edu.  For media inquiries, please contact Laura Benold at lbenold@ati.utexas.edu.

Thank you,

Bart Bohn

Austin Technology Incubator

Director, Wireless and IT Incubators

The University of Texas at Austin

www.ati.utexas.edu

Austin Wireless Alliance

Executive Director

www.austinwirelessalliance.org

Office – 512 305 0046

Mobile – 832 524 3908

bbohn@ati.utexas.edu

@bartbohn