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4 April 2008 (Brighton, UK): IPTV maven, Global Digital Broadcast (GDB), prepares to provide a ‘4-play’ package through its UK network service, PlayTV UK. This move comes after GDB gains exclusive European rights to a breakthrough product, 1ButtonToWiFi, which enables VoIP calls from any telephone handset.

The PlayTV UK British broadcast network, which has already incorporated high-definition and digital technologies in order to offer an IPTV, telephone and broadband triple-play package, now goes one step further with the inclusion of this patented, advanced-telephony service.

Pioneered by Steve Lipman, president of California-based WorldTel and CEO of 1ButtonToWiFi, the product allows any handset to work like a WiFi telephone, but without the limitations of WiFi per se. The device enables users to make internet telephone calls from anywhere in the world, from any telephone handset or device, using voice over internet protocol (VoIP) technology. WiFi enablement provides access to an existing high-speed internet connection, meaning that 1ButtonToWiFi also permits significant savings on the cost of long distance and international calls.

Mr. Lipman explains: “1ButtonToWiFi lets users make high-speed internet telephone calls, without the need to be anywhere near an internet connection. You can even use it in a moving vehicle! The device combines computer chips developed in both Silicon Valley and Taiwan, in order to produce the ‘digital/analog/digital technology which makes it all possible.”

He continues: “There are 3.25 billion mobile ‘phones in use, today, which can all use 1ButtonToWiFi; and this cellular/VoIP market is virtually untapped. This is the only VoIP product in existence which joins all these devices, in addition to home telephones and PDAs, to the internet.”

Showcased at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this year, 1ButtonToWiFi soon attracted the attention of telephony giants such as OneTel, Orange and BT; but the European rights contract went to GDB.

Jim Deans, co-founder and managing director of Global Digital Broadcast and co-director of PlayTV UK, says: “We met Steve Lipman at CES and loved the fact that he had achieved something which others said was ‘impossible’. It reminded me of the very early days of IPTV, when we were creating something considered ‘impossible’, or at least, a very long way off. Steve has proven the naysayers wrong, as we did with IPTV and this is why we just had to add 1ButtonToWiFi to our services.”

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NOTES TO EDITORS

About WorldTel Exchange:
Based in California, WorldTel Xchange is the first and final generation, worldwide provider of local, domestic and international voice connectivity through the integration of its patented and patent-pending designs, applications, chip sets and network infrastructure. WorldTel’s 1ButtonToWiFi technology is the first and only consumer-located VoIP switch which enables both fixed VoIP (home telephone) and cellular VoIP (mobile telephone wireless calling).




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