IPKL - iPackets International, Inc.

[jmhollen]

iPackets Announces Technology Realignment to Maximize Focus on Its Mine-Safety Product Innovation

VANCOUVER, BC, Oct 17, 2006 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- iPackets International,
Inc. ("iPackets") (PINKSHEETS: IPKL), a global developer and provider of
wireless communications solutions for the mine-safety industry, announces
technology realignment to maximize development resources and efforts for its
mine-safety flagship product, iPMine. The technology realignment is in response
to the growing number of inquiries and opportunities generated by the recent
signing of a Letter of Intent to establish a Chinese Joint Venture to
manufacture, sell, distribute, and deploy iPMine systems for the Chinese and the
global mine-safety markets.

iPackets' non-iPMine technologies, including voice and wireless data optimization algorithms, will be integrated into iPMine as new features. Moving forward, these technologies will continue to evolve as part of iPMine. The technology realignment is consistent with iPackets' vision of becoming a premium provider of mine-safety solutions for the global market.

"We have made a significant investment in our non-iPMine technologies, and we are very pleased to merge them with our iPMine product," said Naiel Kanno, iPackets' President and CEO. "Our iPMine single product discipline strategy will facilitate rapid product innovation, introduce new features to market faster, and widen the gap with the competition."

iPackets' Vice President of Engineering, Mr. Kouros Goodarzi, commented: "We will gain significant efficiency, accelerate our development cycle, and achieve a shorter time-to-market by leveraging our existing non-iPMine software assets in the iPMine product offering."

Mr. Ara Bedrossian, iPackets' Chief Technology Officer, added: "This technology realignment will direct our future research efforts of up and coming technologies towards mine-safety initiatives. We will be more agile with our iPMine technology offering, reflected in our product roadmap."

About iPackets International, Inc. and iPMine

iPackets International is a developer and provider of wireless communications solutions for the global mine-safety industry. iPMine, the company's flagship product designed to significantly improve the safety of miners and equipment, is a real-time two-way wireless communications solution that tracks, monitors, and communicates with miners and equipment underground and above ground. With iPMine, location information of both miners and equipment is collected and displayed in real time on one or more monitoring stations against a background of a mine's terrain map. iPMine's scalability and flexibility features make it ideal to be deployed in any size mine supporting multiple levels and/or sites. Its redundant communications feature makes the system highly reliable to efficiently operate in the harsh mining environment. For more information, please visit iPackets International, Inc. Home Page.

Contact:
Allegiant Financial Group
1 (866) 824-8227
SOURCE: iPackets International, Inc.

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[jmhollen]

Wireless devices allow communication with miners through ground

Friday, April 28, 2006

By Steve Twedt, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Deep inside Consol Energy Co.'s McElroy Mine in Marshall County, W.Va., a small group of men laid out two wire coils in loops yesterday.

The team from Transtek Inc. of Pittsburgh is one of seven field-testing prototype wireless two-way communication systems that, if successful, would enable working miners to talk with people on the surface in real time.

Transtek, for example, has one coil for transmitting and one for receiving, using the earth as a conductor. A company spokesman said the system was successful in a test this spring at 280 feet below the surface at the Lake Lynn Laboratory Experimental Mine in Fayette County.

Following this week's testing, David Chirdon of the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration said each of the seven systems "had some positives and some negatives."

The wireless systems were tried at depths up to 700 feet underground, he said. While some got a through-the-earth signal at 200 feet, "we didn't see anything that goes above 300 feet."

With some U.S. mines reaching more than 2,000 feet beneath the surface, those results might seem discouraging -- yet Mr. Chirdon said he could foresee a viable two-way system becoming commercially available in a year or so.

The reason for his optimism: Since the death of 12 miners at Sago Mine No. 1 in Upshur County, W.Va., in January, MSHA officials have fielded more than 100 proposals for underground coal communications systems.

Mr. Chirdon, who heads MSHA's electrical safety division and would evaluate systems for safety, said 10 have formally applied for certification.

Before Sago, MSHA averaged two proposals annually.

Why the change?

Vendors have told Mr. Chirdon they believe mine operators will soon be required to have two-way wireless systems, although MSHA has not yet made such a proposal. Current federal law requires only that mines have "telephones or other two-way communication equipment with instructions for their use."

At Sago, a methane explosion behind a sealed portion of the mine trapped 13 miners. When rescuers reached them 41 hours later, only one miner, Randal McCloy Jr., had survived. Many believe the miners could have been directed to safety had there been a way to communicate with them. The phone line in place was disabled in the blast.

The tragedy has heightened interest in finding a workable system for talking to miners underground.

"Originally we didn't think there was a market for the product in North America. We thought safety was not an issue in North American mines," said Niles Kanno, president and CEO of iPackets International in Vancouver, British Columbia.

This spring, his company sold its first two systems for text message communication inside coal mines in China, where mines -- and mining deaths -- are far more prevalent than in the United States.

Mr. Kanno said his firm's device, called iPMine, was not among those field-tested by MSHA, but he has talked to MSHA officials about submitting it for certification later.

"It's no different than seat belts or air bags. Once it became mandated, you see a number of companies out there doing it."

Luke Popovich, spokesman for the National Mining Association representing the coal industry, said mine operators have not sought wireless two-way systems because "we really haven't found a product that works effectively in most underground coal mines in the United States."

"The reasons for this certainly include the fact that we're a small market for the technology provider and it's an unattractive market for them to make a device that meets our needs and recovers their costs," Mr. Popovich said.

"They're not responsible for mines, they're responsible for making a product. If it's your money, can you recover the investment you're going to make?"

Phil Smith, Mr. Popovich's counterpart at the United Mine Workers of America, said that if the market were there, the products would follow. "It will take the government telling the coal companies 'You must do it,' and therefore it creates a market. But if mine operators aren't required to put them in the mines, the mine operators won't do it."

Because of Sago, MSHA officials took the unusual step of setting up the field tests, and Mr. Chirdon said yesterday that "it's been a great learning process. We've gotten a lot of good information. We found there isn't any single great solution.

Wireless devices allow communication with miners through ground

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[FirstConsul]

Best of all, IPKL has spammers like you.

[jmhollen]

Email from the CEO..: From: Naiel P. Kanno
Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2006 8:22 PM
To: me
Subject: RE: Pinsheets Real Time Quotes..???

Filing of our year end financials was done on Friday afternoon. Do you have the Pink Sheets RTQ link? We tested the one that we have and it did not display the RTQ info.

And the man ain't kidding, either..: Pink Sheets -- Electronic Quotation and Trading System for OTC Securities

Pinksheet REAL TIME QUOTES & MFMMM MONTAGE should be up and running very soon..!!!

John :-)

ps: We're working the technical issue with the webmaster to get the Pink RTQs up on the IPKL website like PLNI has, also.

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[Stocktrading101]

cc: of eMail from Pinksheets to IPKL..:

From: Jim Dunn [mailto:jim@pinksheets.com]
Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 8:13 AM
To: *********@ipackets.com

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Good deal, gotta like them real time pink sheet quotes.

I am assuming you are just really excited about the stock and are not spamming. Be careful with how many posts you put up at a time on one pick!

Good luck in your position

[jmhollen]

iPackets Provides an Update on Its Chinese Joint Venture

VANCOUVER, BC, Oct 23, 2006 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- iPackets International,
Inc. ("iPackets") (PINKSHEETS: IPKL), a global developer and provider of
wireless and communications solutions for the mine-safety industry, announced
today that it has signed and authorized the submission of the pre-approval name
application for its Chinese Joint Venture ("JV"). Pending name approval from the
various Chinese government agencies, the JV will be named China National Safety
Technology Inc.

iPackets is also pleased to announce that the JV partners are executing multiple activities concurrently to expedite the manufacturing and certification process. These activities include the operational budget for the initial phases, product certification application, first batch of product manufacturing, manufacturing facility design, and long term operational planning.

The partners are also working towards establishing a common framework to collaborate through. This includes technical and management communication links, and on-line information exchange channels. The objective of this framework is to facilitate meeting of the deadlines set in the Letter of Intent signed last month.

iPackets' President and CEO, Mr. Naiel Kanno, commented: "As communicated in previous press releases, we will keep our stockholders fully updated on all major milestones during the establishment of our JV. We are very pleased with the progress of the JV creation and the efforts invested by all partners as a result of which we are on track with delivering the contents agreed upon in the LOI."

iPackets would also like to report that it has filed its year end financial statements for the year end June 30, 2006. The un-audited financial statements can be viewed on the Pink Sheets' web site at Pink Sheets -- Electronic Quotation and Trading System for OTC Securities.

About the Mining and Mine Safety Industries in China

China comprises more than 280,000 mining enterprises, of which 80,000 are state-owned, and of the more than 25,000 state-owned coal mines in China, more than 700 are classified as large mines. Mine safety has been a major issue in the Chinese mining industry, with more than 6,000 miners killed in mining-related accidents in China last year; independent estimates say the real figure could be as high as 20,000. According to Chinese government statistics, more than 12.2 million people were employed as miners in 2005, and approximately 7.0 million of these were coal miners.

About The Chinese Joint Venture Partners

China Coal Information Institute: Established in 1959 by the Chinese government, China Coal Information Institute is a national research organization with more than 800 employees. CCII is part of the newly established National Institute for Occupational Safety and has played a leading role in the development of China's domestic coal industry and related occupational safety standards. As the strongest segment of the CCII, the Energy and Safety Division provides information support and strategic suggestions to government authorities; undertakes market investigations; and provides consulting services to Chinese and international companies to expand their business in the areas of energy, safety, environment, and information technology. For more information, please visit CCII & NIOS.

Henan YongAn Investment Guarantee Co., Ltd.

YongAn is one of the first investment guarantee companies to be approved by the Chinese National Development and Reform Commission. With more than 55 employees, YongAn's business scope is finance, investment guarantee, debenture guarantee, financial services and consultation related to investments in small- to medium-sized enterprises.

About iPackets International, Inc. and iPMine

iPackets International is a developer and provider of wireless communications solutions for the global mine-safety industry. iPMine, the company's flagship product designed to significantly improve the safety of miners and equipment, is a real-time two-way wireless communications solution that tracks, monitors, and communicates with miners and equipment underground and above ground. With iPMine, location information of both miners and equipment is collected and displayed in real time on one or more monitoring stations against a background of a mine's terrain map. iPMine's scalability and flexibility features make it ideal to be deployed in any size mine supporting multiple levels and/or sites. Its redundant communications feature makes the system highly reliable to efficiently operate in the harsh mining environment. For more information, please visit iPackets International, Inc. Home Page.

Contact:
Allegiant Financial Group
1 (866) 824-8227
SOURCE: iPackets International, Inc.

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[jmhollen]

Originally Posted by Stocktrading101

I am assuming you are just really excited about the stock and are not spamming. Be careful with how many posts you put up at a time on one pick! Good luck in your position

I don't get excited, I just try to find technology-based "..super-cheapie-shares.." when they are at their absolute lows. I.e.: SLJB at 0.002, now $0.17+..........

If it's SPAMMING here to start a Board and post the relevent DD, then tough doggy doo - that's the way I do it.

John :-)

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[Yee Sian]

Any updates? How's it going? Hope you're doing good(=