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ASX Company News: GoConnect To Supply Free Wifi at Melbourne Train Stations

Monday, February 6th, 2012

Netbay Internet Pty Ltd has advised GoConnect Ltd (GCN) that Netbay has executed an agreement with Metro Trains Melbourne Pty Ltd (MTM) for Netbay to be the operator of a free Wifi (Wireless Internet) service on MTM operated train station platforms in Melbourne City. MTM is the operator of train services in Melbourne and Netbay is an ADSL 2 + broadband service provider based in Melbourne.

According to today’s report in the Herald Sun news, More than 100,000 commuters a day will have free WiFi access at Flinders St Station in Melbourne City from next month. Metro spokeswoman Geraldine Mitchell said if the three-month trial proved a hit, free Internet access would be rolled out to all stations on the City Loop. Melbourne City will be the first city in Australia to be connected with free WiFi service on train station platforms and this is supportive of the goals of the Future Melbourne Plan of the City of Melbourne, to be a knowledge city, a creative city and a connected city. With daily commuter traffic of over 500,000 people, upon full penetration, the Metro Netbay free WiFi Network will have monthly users cumulatively of over 15 million people, representing a new and significant online platform for the promotion of and communication for the City of Melbourne, both for visitors to Melbourne and for residents, businesses and merchants in the City of Melbourne.

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ASX Company News: GoConnect To Acquire Interest in Chinese Shanghai Reliance

Friday, September 23rd, 2011

Directors of GoConnect Ltd (GCN) and Priority One Network Group Ltd are pleased to advise that they have entered into an agreement with SHANGHAI RELIANCE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO LTD, a company incorporated in Shanghai, the People’s republic of China, for GCN and Priority One to each acquire a 40% interest of Shanghai Reliance. Shanghai Reliance is a Chinese company based in Shanghai that specializes in gaming, information technology marketing, social networking and customer relationship management. Shanghai Reliance has already close relationships with the management of a number of major e-commerce online portals in China which have a collective membership base of over 50 million registered users. GCN will be responsible for providing its IPTV technologies under a free licence to Shanghai Reliance, such technologies will be applied towards assisting in the co-promotion and marketing of the Priority One reward program and payment system in the People’s Republic of China. Priority One will be responsible for licensing the Priority One payment system to Shanghai Reliance and providing the relevant system support to Shanghai Reliance.

GCN, Priority One and the existing shareholders of Shanghai Reliance, all believe that this agreement provides a win-win to all parties and will allow Shanghai Reliance to replicate the success of Priority One in the Western world in securing substantial merchant interest, both online and offline, in adopting the Priority One payment system and reward program. The acquisition of equity interests in Shanghai Reliance will enable both GCN and Priority One to fast track the establishment of a beach head for launching their businesses into the China market. Through Shanghai Reliance, the GCN-Priority One partnership will implement its China strategy to introduce and promote the Priority One reward program and payment system to online and offline merchants in The People’s Republic of China. With the expanded businesses of Shanghai Reliance,

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ASX Company News: Go Connect Enters Joint Venture With Priority One Network

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011

GoConnect Limited (GCN) and Melbourne based, public unlisted company Priority One Network Group have entered into a Memorandum Of Understanding (‘MOU’) to establish a strategic partnership for the purpose of delivering a substantial, full service advertising, purchasing and transaction service platform to merchants and consumers.

Under the MOU, GoConnect and Priority One Network group will each control 50% of the joint venture.  Priority One Network has established a delivery platform that enables the provision of a holistic service to merchants and consumers.  This platform enables the delivery of advertising, purchasing and broader transaction solutions to a prospective 400 million members and consumers who have established relationships with these various companies, associations, and member groups.

Priority One has entered into collaborative agreements with these various domestic and international groups enabling these entities to strengthen their relationship with their existing consumers and provide compelling offerings to attract new customers.

Priority One will actively seek to convert this prospective membership and customer base into subscribers for its Debit Card offering to be co-branded with Ezybonds Global Payment Systems Inc. To-date, Priority One has entered into collaborative arrangements with 100,000 trading merchants across the globe whose consumer and membership base exceed 400 million.

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ASX Company News: Go Connect To Launch Asian Language Internet TV

Wednesday, April 20th, 2011

GoConnect (GCN) is pleased to announce it has joined forces with Netbay Internet, an Australian based Broadband Service provider, to launch a number of Asian language IPTV channels on GoConnect’s IPTV network of properties.

GoConnect’s network of IPTV properties have expanded rapidly since July 2010 when the Company’s uctv.fm music IPTV channel went live on the Sony Bravia Internet Video Service. Since then the network has expanded in both distribution platforms as well as content channels.  The GoConnect IPTV network includes web TV on www.uctv.fm, the LG Netcast IPTV platform, and the mobile version of uctv.fm on most major smartphone brands accessible through their mobile browsers and via the uctv.fm app on Windows Phone 7.  A recent addition to the network is The Business Show channel hosted by Walkley award winning journalist Adam Shand and is now live on www.thebusinessshow.tv on the web as well as on smart phones.

Netbay Internet is a Victoria based broadband ISP that provides IPTV service through its subsidiary company MyiTV. MyiTV is currently providing Triple-Play Services: ADSL2+ Broadband, VOIP and IPTV subscription service of Cantonese and Mandarin Speaking television channels through its multi-casting IPTV network under its agreement with Television Broadcasting Australia (“TVBA”).   TVBA is the Australian subsidiary of TVB, the dominant free to air TV network in Hong Kong.

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ASX Company News: GoConnect Enters JV Agreement With Swish Group

Wednesday, November 17th, 2010

GoConnect Ltd (GCN) is pleased to announce it has signed an advertising representation agreement with The Swish Group Ltd (SWG) to form one of the largest online music destinations in Australia.  From December 2010, GoConnect will represent Swish’s online properties: Mp3.com.au (www .mp3.com.au), NiceShorts (www .niceshorts.com.au) and TheScene (www .thescene.com.au) and include them in GoConnect’s fast growing online media sales network.

On July 1, 2010, GoConnect merged with Undercover and PLW Entertainment to form Australia’s largest independent music entertainment company. The GoConnect Music Network includes Undercover (www.undercover.fm), uctv.fm (www .uctv.fm), Soundcheck (www .soundcheck.com.au), PLW artist sites for Trinity, Art of Wor, Goodbye Motel, Sam Clark and Engelbert Humperdinck and live music site Moshcam (www .moshcam.com). Together with the Swish properties, the GoConnect Music Network will become one of the largest online music destinations in Australia and be better placed to maximise revenues for both partners by targeting the advertising industry with a combined audience in excess of 600,000 unique visitors per month.

“Swish recently announced its intention to further focus its operations around Online Advertising,” said Dean Jones, managing Director of The Swish Group Limited. “This partnership with GoConnect will allow Swish to both continue to develop its own online advertising businesses and technologies while enjoying the benefits that should flow from the formation of this major new music network”.  “We are extremely excited to have Mp3.com.au, TheScene.com.au and NiceShorts.com.au join the GoConnect Music Network and with it bring a new dimension of music content to our audience and increased value to the advertiser,” said GoConnect Director and Undercover founder Paul Cashmere. “The Swish music sites are complementary to our existing network of sites and will help improve revenues for both partners with a substantially larger audience reach for the advertiser”.

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ASX Company News: GoConnect Enters Alliance With VVMusic.com

Wednesday, October 27th, 2010

Following this week’s announcement of the music news affiliation between Undercover.fm and London based Music-news.com, GoConnect Ltd (GCN) has formed another international music alliance with U.S. based music news site VVMusic.com to expand its global music news network.

Together Undercover.fm, VVN Music and Music-News.com collectively produce music news content 24 hours a day from Australia, the United States and England. “VVN Music is proud to be part of this new and exciting music news network, working with such respected news organizations as Undercover.fm and Music-News.com. With current technologies constantly shortening the news cycle, it is a great advantage to have affiliated organizations in major music capitals around the world,” said VVN Music founder Roger Wink.

“The United States, Europe and Australasia are the biggest music markets in the world. By bringing VVNMusic.com into the network we now have a credible and reliable U.S. base producing relevant music news content along with the established and also credible London-based Music-news.com. With VVNMusic.com and Music-news.com as part of the content family, Undercover has completed its vision of creating a global music news network,” says Undercover founder and GoConnect Ltd Executive Director Paul Cashmere.

GoConnect also owns and operates IPTV channel uctv.fm that will soon be launched on mobile devices. The creation of the global music news network will enable GoConnect to bundle global music news breaks with the uctv.fm music video to produce a unique product offering to an expanded audience including mobile delivery.

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ASX Company News: Go Connect To Spin Off Pharmasafe

Tuesday, October 12th, 2010

The directors of GoConnect Ltd (GCN) are pleased to announce that GCN has entered into an agreement (Agreement) with Pharmasafe Ltd (PHS), NGPDT Asia Pacific Ltd (NGPDT APAC), and Sino Investment Services Pty Ltd (SIS) to effect the merger of business interests between PHS and NGPDT APAC, and to list the expanded PHS after the merger on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX).

PHS is an Australian based company, established by Professor TC Lin, a highly regarded and well-established Chinese medical practitioner, and is owned 60% by Professor Lin and 40% by GoConnect Ltd (GCN). GCN is also the exclusive online marketing agent for PHS.

NGPDT APAC holds the exclusive rights to the Intellectual Property, for the Asia Pacific, including Australia and New Zealand, to the patented Next Generation Photodynamic Therapy (PDT), a treatment which uses light to destroy cancer tissue and provides an alternative to traditional cancer treatment by chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

The restructuring of GCN’s PHS interest by way of the merger between PHS and NGPDT APAC and the listing of PHS on the ASX will deliver substantial value to GCN shareholders both as a result of the significant improvement expected to the GCN investment value in PHS after the ASX listing, as well as the shareholders’ priority entitlement to participate directly in an investment in PHS before the listing. Further information will be provided to GCN shareholders in respect of the entitlement offer details and timetable when appropriate.  For further reference on NGPDT technology, please refer to www.nextgenerationpdt.com, and on the earlier generation PDT technology please refer to www.killingcancer.co.uk

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ASX Company News: GoConnect Traffic Increases Significantly

Monday, September 13th, 2010

Further to our report on 2 September 2010, GoConnect (GCN) is pleased to advise that its IPTV network, uctv.fm, has rapidly gained the acceptance of the IPTV consumers, and has continued to attract user support with the traffic of the first 9 days of September 2010 already exceeding the traffic for the entire month of August by substantial multiples.

Monthly unique users have grown by 5.8 folds for September month-to-date compared to the whole month of August, to over 70,000 users. Video view counts have grown by more than 6 folds to over 128,000 views. September view counts are on target to achieve over 400,000 views for the current month based on the existing trend. What is also pleasing is that a high proportion of the traffic comes from international users, demonstrating that uctv.fm programs appeal to an international audience and it is growing rapidly.

GoConnect has been developing an advertising sales strategy based on the delivery of video commercials as 15 seconds pre-roll and post-roll to the video programs distributed through the uctv.fm network. These commercials will be delivered by GoConnect’s own advertising serving technology which also enables geographical targeting.  The user traffic and volume of video views generated to-date have been most encouraging and support management’s revised view that advertising revenue is likely to be generated at an earlier time than what was envisaged previously.

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Go Connect Merges With Undercover and PLW Entertainment

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

GoConnect  (GCN),  a  leading  global  communications  company;  Cashmere  Media  Pty  Ltd,  owner  of  Australia’s  music  news  and  information  destination  undercover.com.au  and  PLW  Entertainment,  the  360  degree  artist  management,  development  and  production  company,  all  based  in  Melbourne,  Australia,  have  signed  a  Memorandum  of  Understanding  (MOU)  to  merge  their  operations.

The  combined  businesses  will  create  the  largest  independent  entertainment  company  in  Australia,  with  a  global  vision,  providing  a  range  of  services  and  creating  products  targeting  the  consumer  for  the  entertainment  and  advertising  markets.  The  combined  businesses  will  be  able  to  leverage  on  the  strengths  and  resources  of  the  group  in  digital  media  to  further  enhane  their  competitiveness  in  the  entertainment  industry.

GoConnect’s  unique  and  proprietary  technologies,  GoTrek  and  m‐Vision,  as  well  as  its  existing  multimedia  online  properties,  will  form  the  foundation  for  international  multimedia  broadcasting  for  the  content  and  programs  produced  by  PLW  and  Undercover  as  well  as  Soundcheck.com.au,  initially  for  Australia  and  China,  before  expansion  into  further  territories.

PLW  Entertainment  will  leverage  the  GoConnect  technologies  locally  and  accessibility  into  China  as  well  as  Undercover’s  loyal  ad  established  audience  base  to  further  promote  its  stable  of  artists  including  Neighbours  star  Sam  Clark,  Trinity,  Goodbye  Motel,  Art  of  Wor  and  The  King  Bees  to  a  global  market  as  well  as  discover  and  develop  new  performing  artists  for  International  promoion  and  distribution.

Undercover  will  expand  its  global  base  by  developing  additional  content,  a  Chinese  edition  of  the  music  site  and  developing  new  video  programs  for  international  consumption  for  music  fans  everywhere  sing  multiple  devices.

The  merger  will  consolidate  technology  and  technical  development  resources,  intellectual  properties  including  artists’  rights,  and  substantial  content  copyrights,  sales,  marketing,  promotions,  existing  entertainment  industry  relationships,  and  operations  of  the  three  businesses.  The  consolidation  will  make  the  new  operations  more  cost‐effective  and  primed  for  expansion  in  Australia,  the  U.S.A.,  China  and  other  markets.

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