Quik Internet Announces New Orange County Franchise

CARSON CITY, Nevada (May 4, 1999) -- Quik International, the world's leading Internet service franchiser, announced today the opening of Quik Internet South Orange County to provide localized Internet services to businesses and residents in southern Orange County.

Quik International brings Internet services around the world by Franchising Internet service providers (ISPs) in local communities under the name Quik Internet. Quik Internet offers Internet access, e-commerce and Web site solutions, and free Internet classes.

"Quik gets involved with the community by offering friendly, local customer support," said Jon Pursell, tech. support manager of Quik Internet South Orange County. "We even offer to visit our customers' home or office to do the install for them and personally see they get connected."

Quik International powers their network with IBM's RS/6000*, a robust, scalable server that provides a high level of power and reliability to the infrastructure of Quik Internet South Orange County. With the RS/6000 recording 110,414 hits per minute as the official Web server of the 1998 Winter Olympics, the Guinness Book of Records assigned IBM a world record for "The Most Hits on an Internet Site in One Minute."

"Quik offers services no other ISP can by pooling our resources to build a competitive, powerful infrastructure," said Nick Pursell. "The result is Quik Internet's speedy connection and reliable service that allow us to guarantee no busy signals or disconnects."

Quik Internet's products satisfy both residents and businesses. The Quik Basic Dial-up account supports 56K V.90 modem standards, includes e-mail, unlimited access, a free 10MB personal Web site, and more for $19.95 a month. The Basic Virtual Web Site includes a registered domain name, 10MB of Web server disk space and 500MB/month of WWW traffic for $19.99 a month.

Quik Internet offers e-commerce solutions for businesses to sell product and services online. As a part of its e-commerce package, Quik Internet is an authorized reseller of Online Merchant, the user-friendly software for developing Internet stores.

Quik Internet South Orange County will provide Internet services to businesses and residents in Dana Point, Mission Viejo, Aliso Viejo, Laguna Hills, Laguna Niguel, Laguna Beach, Lake Forest, Capo Beach, San Clemente, Rancho Santa Margarita and San Juan Capistrano.

Quik Internet has an innovative Agent Program for potential agents, such as computer stores, that recommend customers to Quik Internet. For more information, please visit www.so.quik.com, call (949) 492-4500, or e-mail info@so.quik.com.

Quik International, founded in 1996, has over 100 Franchises throughout the US and fourteen foreign countries. Quik International grew from 27 to 90 Quik Internet franchises in 1998 and is listed among Entrepreneur magazine's Top 500 franchises listing.

*RS/6000 is a registered trademark or trademark of the IBM corporation in the United States, other countries, or both.

For Franchise information, visit Quik Internet on BISON.