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Cyprus' most successful broadband company Ayza.net, is a wireless operation started up by two former PennState graduates. By making minor modifications to off the shelf equipment island wide coverage is about to be achieved. Ayza.net is planning to add voice and video to it services.

(PRWEB) August 28, 2005 -- The recent property boom that has swept the community of North Cyprus is now home to thousands of British expatriates who seek a laid back, idyllic Mediterranean lifestyle. The arrival of British expatriates has fostered a great deal of much needed economic activity to a community hamstrung by over thirty years of commercial stagnation brought about by the political deadlock that mars on otherwise peaceful society.

While the industries that service the basic amenities servicing its new inhabitants has advanced in leaps and bounds, the communications infrastructure has languished making contact with loved ones overseas cumbersome at best. Furthermore, the burgeoning businesses are suffering from the lack of scalable telecommunications solutions imperative to sustaining the steady growth and improvement in quality of life of Cypriot residents. Regular power cuts, constant loosely regulated building projects and road works, antiquated telephone exchanges, and a lack of determination on the part of investors has plagued the progress of telecommunications upheaval projects to the point where new comers to the island are having to wait up to two years before a traditional telephone line, let alone broadband internet, can be installed in new homes. Hotels and businesses in the region of Bella Pais, Kyrenia for example are limited to one phone line due to the exorbitant cost of overcoming the added challenges its terrain presents.

Ayza.Net, a company, established in late 2002, born out of the immense demand for a solution to the worsening telecommunications situation has successfully overcome numerous hurdles to single handedly provide high speed data services using wireless radio electronics. Ayza.Nets solution combines commonly available off the shelf devices and computers with carrier class radio frequency equipment, open source software and rudimentary manufacturing process to deliver cost effective connectivity 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. “Ayza.Net is a manufacturer, a back haul internet service provider and a traditional internet service provider – a totally unfeasible business model anywhere but in a unique market like North Cyprus” remarks Mr Kemal Basat, co-founder and Chief Executive of Ayza.Net.

In its year of inception Ayza.Net experienced teething problems with maintaining stability in the face of power black outs, brown outs and power spikes of up to 450V that last anywhere from 2 to 8 hours. “Now our subscribers that have laptops can use the internet while swathes of the island cannot even turn their lights on” boasts co-founder and former Motorola Inc. research engineer Mr. Izzet Agoren. “Our aim is to bridge the digital divide with a commercially viable offering on a shoe string budget in a way that doesn’t require end users to pick up the tab for the cost of building public infrastructure” continues Mr. Agoren, “none of which would have been possible without the saintly patience of early adopters and the heroic work ethic of the Ayza Net engineers who now number 12 young university graduates”.

Now that Ayza.Net has proofed the concept with unabated demand for its product it is only a matter of time before Ayza.Net becomes Cyprus’ first bundled communications service provider.

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Source :  http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/8/prweb277482.htm