Property Partners

To provide its “public use” Internet access services, Nex will partner
with select property owners and managers including:
(a)        Hotels
(b)        Convention Centre Facilities
(c)        Multi-unit Commercial and Residential Buildings
(d)        Public “Hot-spot” Locations
(e)        Schools

In each “public use” market, the market dynamics are being driven
by the convergence of technology developments and evolving user
needs.

Property Partner Benefits
The property partner benefits include:
        Provide guests/tenants a value-added service.
        Create a value-added revenue stream, with no up-front
investment.
        Meet or beat the competition.
        Out-source to obtain Nex’s specialist skills on a “turn-key”,
“build-own-operate” basis. These technically demanding skills are
properly outside a property partner’s staffing and core business
competencies.
        Get the job done now without over-burdening existing staff.


Hotels
Today, business travel is a key part of the hotel business:
•        In 2002, business and conference/meeting travellers
accounted for about 57% of all travellers (29.5% and 27.0%
respectively), with 58% of business travellers spend two or more
nights.
•        Today, it is estimated that only about 50% of US hotel rooms
have Internet access, up from 15 % in 1999, with a significant
portion of these only offering much slower and less practical  “dial-
up” access.
•        In the US, it is estimated that two-thirds of the 36 million
business travellers (i.e. 27 million regular hotel guests) travel with
their laptops.   
•        Access to the Internet is now a requirement for doing
business. In a recent survey, two thirds of respondents agreed that
“it was very important to stay connected while on the road”, with 80%
expressing a preference for using a computer in their rooms rather
than in hotel business centres.
•        A growing number of business travellers are now booking their
hotels based on the in-room availability of high-speed Internet
access.

Nex’s Internet access solutions let hotel guests catch up on office e-
mail, get the updated stats for tomorrow's sales meeting or book
the next flight home, all at Ethernet speed. They can work in their
rooms and, if Wi-Fi is enabled in the customized network installed,
virtually anywhere in the hotel covered by wireless. Users avoid the
fumbling, hassles and inconvenience of dial-up access, which
requires the use of modem dial codes and hotel phone systems.
The user can send large files, notably presentations, send and
receive emails, surf the web, receive video streaming media or
conduct video conferencing.

Convention Centre Facilities
Nex’s Wi-Fi enabled high-speed Internet access network solutions
are ideally suited to convention centres and hotel conference and
meeting rooms. In such applications, Wi-Fi is  considerably more
convenient and cost effective than a wired network connecting the
booths and presentation tables in the venue, whose layout will
change from event to event.

The advantages of Nex’s Wi-Fi enabled networks include:
•        Providing high-speed Internet access for conference
organizers, exhibitors and attendees to all exhibition booths and
other facilities
•        Easy accommodation of last minute booth reassignments
•        Significant time, cost and convenience savings, as compared
to a wired network
•        Seamless wireless roaming throughout the facility
•        Complete flexibility in locating booths, tables, displays and
kiosks with full Internet access
•        True broadband access, which accommodates streaming
video and video conferencing
•        Easy servicing of media Internet access needs in the
pressroom

Multi-unit Commercial and Residential Buildings
For a variety of reasons, many buildings are not suited to “wired”
high speed Internet access as provided by digital subscriber line
(“DSL”) or cable broadband access. And much slower “dial-up”
connections are less than ideal today and will be even moreso in
future. The Company offers its services to multi-unit buildings in
geographic areas where it has established accounts.

For building owners and property managers, and their business
and residential tenants, Nex can provide integrated high-speed
Internet access solutions, and will work with building owners and
managers to co-market the services to building tenants.

Public “Hot-spot” Locations
The Company's Wi-Fi enabled Internet access network services are
ideally suited to serving public access venues such as airports,
hotels, convention centres, government buildings or any other public
access area. Nex offers its hot-spot services in geographic areas
where it has established accounts.

Schools
The Company’s design, build, own and operate, low-cost, pay-as-
you-go, business model is well suited to the funding pressures
facing educational institutions today.

Providing classrooms with “wired” network access is very costly.
“Wired” network installations require a significant investment in
terms of time and resources. Trenching and stringing wires within
buildings is very expensive. By using a Wi-Fi enabled network, even
remote classrooms can have the same access to the school's
network, email, and the web, as if they were in the main building.
Simple set-up, easy management, and high-speed performance
combine to make the ongoing use of Nex’s Wi-Fi enabled networks
economical and trouble free. Expanding or reconfiguring is easy. If
certain service locations are no longer needed, their access points
can simply be re-deployed elsewhere.

Nex’s Wi-Fi enabled networks can give students and teachers
access to their network resources (printers, file servers, email, and
the web) from anywhere on campus and holds the promise of
fundamentally changing the way students and faculty work together,
teach and learn.