Quik Internet Opens in Puerto Rico

COSTA MESA, California (June 8, 1999) -- Quik International, the world's leading franchiser of Internet service providers (ISPs), announced the opening of Quik Internet of San Juan to provide localized Internet services throughout the San Juan, Puerto Rico metropolitan area.

Quik International brings Internet services to residents and businesses around the world by Franchising ISPs in local communities under the name Quik Internet. Quik Internet of San Juan offers Internet access, e-commerce solutions, Web site design and hosting, and free Internet classes.

"Quik gets involved with the community by offering friendly, local customer support," said Daniel Pena, associate manager of Quik Internet San Juan. "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. 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 Pena. "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/ month. The Basic Virtual Web Site product includes a registered domain name, 10MB of Web server disk space and 500MB/month of WWW traffic for $19.99/month.

All Web site products are available with complete e-commerce solutions for businesses to sell product and services online, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. As an authorized reseller of Online Merchant, Quik Internet completes its e-commerce package by offering this user-friendly software as a tool for small businesses to develop Internet stores.

Quik Internet's innovative Agent Program provides additional profit centers for potential agents, such as computer stores, that recommend customers to Quik Internet.

Quik International has over 120 Franchises throughout the US and 14 foreign countries and is listed among Entrepreneur magazine's Top 500 franchises listing. The company, founded in 1996, has headquarters in Carson City, Nev. and West Coast operations in Costa Mesa, Calif.

*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.