NETGEAR Promotes David Soares to Vice President of Europe, Middle East, and Asia Sales

IT Sales and Marketing Veteran Tapped to Expand Presence in International Markets

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — December 1, 2003 /The Wi-Fi Technology Forum/- NETGEAR, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTGR), a worldwide provider of technologically advanced, branded networking products, today announced that David Soares will assume the position of vice president of Europe, Middle East and Asia (EMEA) sales. Mr. Soares’ tenure with NETGEAR spans more than five years, serving the last three years as managing director of Europe. His primary focus in his new role will be to increase the company’s international market share in both home and small-and medium-size business networking while leveraging his expertise with retailers, direct marketers, and value-added resellers.

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Avaya Completes Purchase of Expanets from Northwestern Corporation

BASKING RIDGE, N.J. , US /The Wi-Fi Technology Forum/- Avaya Inc. (NYSE:AV) a leading global provider of communications solutions and services for businesses, today announced it has completed the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Expanets, the nation's largest provider of converged communications for mid-sized businesses, from NorthWestern Corporation. Expanets is also one of the largest resellers of Avaya's products in the United States. The acquisition will allow Avaya to continue providing quality sales and service support for Expanets' customers' and grow its small and mid-sized business.

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Vodafone to increase stake in Vodafone-Panafon

Sheffield, UK and Worldwide, November 28, 2003 /The Wi-Fi Technology Forum/- Vodafone Group Plc ("Vodafone") announced (on 26 November 2003) that it has entered into an agreement to acquire from Intracom S.A ("Intracom") 51,250,000 shares in Vodafone-Panafon Hellenic Telecommunications Company S.A. ("Panafon").

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Rudi Schmidleithner named President of Acer Pan American Operations

SAN JOSE, Calif., (November 24, 2003) /The Wi-Fi Technology Forum/- Acer America Corporation, one of the leading worldwide suppliers of PC solutions, today announced the appointment of Rudi Schmidleithner as president of Acer Pan America operations. Mr. Schmidleithner, who will be responsible for operations with both Acer America and Acer Latin America, was previously the Business Unit manager of Region 2 for Acer notebook products in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa).
Acer Europe’s Region 2 includes Germany, Benelux, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Austria, Switzerland, Russia, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland. Acer EMEA has been extremely successful over the past several years and will finish 2003 with over $2 billion in sales and a #2 position in notebook market share. Mr. Schmidleithner will report directly to Gianfranco Lanci, president of Acer International Operations Business Group.

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ACER TO CONDUCT LOTTERY FOR “WI-FI 101” APPLICANTS

Nearly 1000 Schools Apply for Program; Success of
Wireless Offer Demonstrates Desire of Education to Go “Mobile”

SAN JOSE, Calif., (November 21, 2003) /The Wi-Fi Technology Forum/- Acer America Corporation, one of the leading worldwide suppliers of PC solutions, today announced that, due to the overwhelming response to the “Wi-Fi 101” initiative, a random lottery will be held in December to select the schools that will receive free wireless access points and installation. Acer originally announced that “Wi-Fi 101” would include up to 120 schools selected to participate in this program. Due to the volume of responses received, it was determined that the only fair way to select the recipients was through a blind draw.

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HSBC Banks on Sirocom for Global Remote Access Services to their Worldwide Offices

November 21, 2003 /The Wi-Fi Technology Forum/- Virtual network operator, Sirocom, announced a global contract with HSBC for the provision of global roaming services to the Group’s executives. With a large, international workforce, HSBC’s users require consistent, easy, and managed network access wherever they are in the world, whenever they need it.

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SWINDON, England, Nov. 20, 2003 /The Wi-Fi Technology Forum/- Intel Corporation announced that Grant Thornton LLP, one of the world's leading accountancy and business advice organizations, has deployed more than 1,600 notebook PCs powered by Intel® Centrino™ mobile technology across its United Kingdom staff. The combination of the new wireless notebook PCs and an ongoing two-year PC refresh program is helping the company drive down the cost of mobile working while improving customer service levels.

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The Modular Omni 3750 Delivers EMV 4.0, TDES Security and the 3-Second Transaction Times

Sheffield, UK and Worldwide, November 19, 2003 /The Wi-Fi Technology Forum/- VeriFone, Inc., the world's leading provider of payment solutions, announced that it has shipped its 450,000th Omni 3750 payment terminal. This makes the Omni 3750 the most successful product launch in VeriFone’s 22-year history.

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Russia’s First Ethernet Service Provider Offers VPNs to Enterprises in Moscow

MOSCOW - /The Wi-Fi Technology Forum/- Golden Telecom, Inc. [NASDAQ: GLDN], a major independent Russian telecommunications operator, has deployed an Optical Ethernet solution from Nortel Networks* [NYSE/TSX: NT] to provide Ethernet virtual private network (VPN) connectivity to enterprises in major business centers and customer locations throughout Moscow.

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SEOUL, South Korea /The Wi-Fi Technology Forum/- Dacom Corporation, a leading Korean provider of telephony, Internet and data communications services, has selected Nortel Networks* [NYSE/TSX: NT] to provide a next generation network (NGN) voice over IP (Internet Protocol) and multimedia solution. The Dacom contract was awarded to Nortel Networks through its Korea channel distributor, ITIAN Corporation.

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