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WildBlue Enterprise Solutions Partners with Echosat to Provide Merchandisers Faster Credit Transactions
09/28/2006

Will Provide High Speed Broadband for Secured Payments Gateway Service

Denver, Colorado ? WildBlue Enterprise Solutions? today announced that it has partnered with EchoSat Communications Group to supply WildBlue?s high speed Internet network with EchoSat?s Secure Payments Gatewaysm (SPG). The SPG solution provides merchants, retailers, convenience stores, grocery outlets, quick serve restaurants and others with a managed solution for their Point of Sale (POS), credit card machines, ATM?s, and other dial-up or serial devices. WildBlue Enterprise Solutions offers business class high speed, two-way wireless satellite- delivered products and services at compelling price points to small and medium enterprises (SMEs), telecommuters and specialized industries, such as retail, financial, telemedicine, energy, remote monitoring, federal, state and local government, disaster recovery, homeland security and other markets. The WildBlue/EchoSat partnership enables businesses to realize transactional savings and improve customer service.  

 

Under this agreement, retailers using EchoSat?s SPG can integrate their POS, credit card machines and other dial-up or serial devices to interface with high-speed broadband supplied by WildBlue Enterprise Solutions. EchoSat?s SPG utilizes standards-based encryption technology via Internet on WildBlue platform to transmit Electronic Funds Transfers (EFT), credit, debit and Electronic Benefits Transactions (EBT) to specific payment processors. EchoSat?s SPG solution allows single or multiple inputs, supports a variety of POS devices and models, provides dial back-up with automatic rollover, routes transactions to multiple payment processors and is remotely configured and managed by EchoSat?s team of professionals.

 

?WildBlue Enterprise Solutions is pleased to be working with EchoSat to provide faster credit transactions to merchants deploying our bandwidth products and services,? said John Beattie, Director of WildBlue Enterprise Solutions. ?EchoSat?s SPG product is a retail industry leader in providing cost-effective POS solutions that take advantage of today?s broadband technology, improving the retailer?s customer service and their bottom line.?

 

"We are excited to have our managed SPG service utilized by WildBlue Enterprise Solutions,? said C. L. ?Spencer? Rutherford, II, President of EchoSat. ?Our team of professionals has one set of goals: to deliver a highly-secure, robust and fast solution to the retailer, allowing them to have the speed and transaction savings usually enjoyed by only the national chains. With EchoSat?s managed SPG service, retailers can now have fast credit, debit and EBT, receive a lower cost-per-transaction fee associated with IP delivery to the network, and better utilize their employees. Retailers can now breathe easier that their Electronic Funds Transmission network backbone is constantly monitored and analyzed by EchoSat?s award winning Help Desk on a 24X7 basis. To a retailer, it?s like having an extra IT employee that makes sure their money gets to the bank.?

 

WildBlue offers its Enterprise Internet service at download speeds of up to 1.5 Mbps and upload speeds of up to 256 Kbps at a price-to-performance ratio significantly better than currently available from other service providers in the business connectivity market. WildBlue?s Enterprise offering is branded under the name WildBlue Enterprise Solutions?.

 

Additional information on how to get EchoSat?s SPG service is available at www.wildblue.com/forYourEnterprise/index.jsp or www.echosat.com/Wildblue, or by calling 1-877-254-6672.

 

 

About EchoSat Communicatons Group
EchoSat Communications Group is a leading provider of communication services to large and small businesses throughout the United States.  From their national headquarters in Lexington, KY, EchoSat provides merchants and retailers with a ?worry free? managed solution which gives them the ability to realize huge transaction savings and improve customer service with their industry leading Secure Payments Gatewaysm (SPG).  EchoSat?s SPG is selected when merchants and retailers value monitoring and analysis of their financial connectivity, want to have the ability to reach a Help Desk professional 24X7, need engineering strength specific to communications, desire a company that is credit network processor independent, or have the need for multiple dial-up devices to operate over a common high speed Internet backbone.

About WildBlue
WildBlue Communications, Inc. was established to provide broadband access to consumers and small offices in rural areas and small cities. WildBlue Communication's high-speed satellite broadband service is easy to use, reliable, always on, and significantly faster than standard dial-up service.  It opens up a window to a world of rich content that is largely unavailable through dial-up service and is accessible in areas traditionally unserved by cable modem or DSL service. Service is available in the continental United States. For more information visit www.wildblue.com. 

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