GOWEX Extends Its Smart WiFi Service To Major Cities In Belgium

• The company has signed a strategic agreement with Win, ICT services integrator • This agreement will allow GOWEX expand its sustainable Wi-Fi model in over 200 cities in Belgium in the coming years • Win presents this Friday its "Wi-Fi

Madrid (I-Newswire) February 6, 2013 - GOWEX extends its Smart WiFi service to major cities in Belgium


• The company has signed a strategic agreement with Win, ICT services integrator

• This agreement will allow GOWEX expand its sustainable Wi-Fi model in over 200 cities in Belgium in the coming years

• Win presents this Friday its "Wi-Fi Urban Hotspot" (WUH), a free connectivity solution for public networks, which will be managed by GOWEX Proprietary Platforms

• Seraing, with a population of over 60,000, is the first Belgian city to receive WUH connection service


February 6th, 2013. -GOWEX (GOW-MAB, ALGOW-NYSE Alternext), leader in creating WiFi Smart Cities (Wireless Smart Cities ®) and WiFi Intelligent Transports, has signed an agreement with the Belgian company Win, operator and integrator of ICT services. This strategic alliance will allow GOWEX expand its sustainable Wi-Fi model in more than 200 Belgian cities in the years to come.
Win belongs to the Belgian industrial group Tecteo, subsidiary of Voo, the main telecom operator (triple play) in Wallonia and Brussels

"WiFi Urban Hotspot"

To promote intelligent services in cities, Win, in partnership with Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) and GOWEX, has developed an innovative solution for connectivity: "WUH" (Wi-Fi Urban Hotspot), which allows citizens to connect to free Wi-Fi urban areas. The WUH connection service will be managed and self-financed through GOWEX Proprietary Platforms –Geo localized Advertising and Roaming- and through revenues generated by users who subscribe to the Premium service Connection.

"In the development of Wi-Fi Urban Hotspot service, GOWEX brought his experience in creating intelligent Wi-Fi networks. Based on a model of sustainable and profitable business for all stakeholders of the city, GOWEX has already led projects in cities as large as Paris, Dubai, Dublin, Madrid and Marseille", said Jenaro Garcia, CEO GOWEX.

Seraing, pioneer city in Wi-Fi

Seraing, located in the province of Liege, with more than 60,000 inhabitants will be the first Belgian city equipped and will test the WUH connection service, which will be gradually expanded in major cities in Wallonia and Brussels.

Presentation at the “Salon des Mandataires”

The Wi-Fi Urban Hotspot (WUH solution) will be presented next February 7 and 8, as part of the event "Salon des Mandataires" which takes place in the city of Namur (Wierde). The main representatives of the public sector in Wallonia, as well as leading companies in the development of innovative solutions for the effective management of cities will be present at this event.