(Salt Lake City – December 16, 2010) – iBAHN, the global leader in IP-based and digital technology solutions for the hospitality and meeting industries, today announced it has signed the first global “Gold Level” reseller agreement in the hospitality marketplace with Symon Communications, an industry leading provider of visual communications and digital signage solutions. This new global agreement builds upon an already successful partner relationship in Europe.

“We are very excited about the long-term potential of this relationship, which includes the possibility of joint products and services in the future,” notes Jim Jones, iBAHN’s vice president of client services. “The relationship has worked well for both parties in EMEA and we look forward to similar success in the Americas.”

As the global leader in their respective markets, iBAHN and Symon will focus on optimizing and monetizing all available screens within a property by providing hoteliers with complete end-to-end digital signage and visual communications solutions. The companies will also capitalize on consumer movement to intelligent mobile devices such as the new generation of sophisticated smartphones and tablets.

“Symon is extremely pleased to be working with iBAHN to jointly expand our offerings to the hospitality and meeting industries. Symon’s content management expertise coupled with iBAHN’s IP network and network management skills and experience creates incredible synergies that will allow us to jointly improve the guest experience,” says Steve Gurley, Symon’s vice president of marketing and new market development.

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About iBAHN
iBAHN is the only global provider of IP-based digital information, entertainment and productivity solutions for the hospitality and meeting industries, currently serving the industry in 41 countries on six continents. The company’s IPTV platform, ETVi, is installed in more than 20 countries, and continues its dramatic growth. Monthly, nearly two million travelers and meeting attendees rely on iBAHN’s secure high-speed Internet access options in 3,000 hotels, conference centers and meeting spaces in 41 countries worldwide. Operating one of the largest MPLS networks in the industry, the company provides technology solutions to more than 50,000 events annually, ranging from small group meetings to major industry conferences, while serving more than 40 percent of Fortune 100 corporations. For more information, please visit www.ibahn.com.

About Symon Communications
Symon Communications is an industry-leading, global provider of fully integrated visual communications solutions that manage the collection, design, scheduling and delivery of digital content to a myriad of electronic display end-points for the purpose of visually informing, persuading and/or changing the behaviors of viewers.
Symon has been in business for thirty years and currently serves over seven-thousand customers worldwide. Symon is proud to boast a client roster that includes nearly 80 percent of the Fortune 100 and almost 70 percent of the Fortune 500. Each day over 5 million people view content delivered via Symon’s solutions installed in over 20 thousand installation sites around the globe.

For more information on Symon, its solutions, products and services, please visit www.symon.com or call 877-796-6634.

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Media Contact

iBAHN
Shannon R. Michael
+1 801.563.2019 – office
smichael@ibahn.com

Symon Communications, Inc.
Leesa Rankin
+1 972-578-8484
lrankin@symon.com